The Connection: Where Tech Meets Humanity in Healthcare Fixing the Foundations: Trust, Integration, and Workforce Systems
Feb 19, 2026
37:16
In this episode, Liz Jones and Darren Kilroy sit down with Kevin Feely, Head of Talent Acquisition and People Digital Experience at Ramsay Health Care UK, an organisation with around 7,000 colleagues across 30 sites nationwide and part of a larger global footprint.
Welcome to The Connection: Where Tech Meets Humanity in Healthcare podcast, brought to you by RLDatix.
Kevin's career began with a twelve-month placement in NHS recruitment at age 19, where he immediately started questioning processes and asking 'why?' This curiosity led him through roles at UCLH, Nuffield Health, and HCA Healthcare before joining Ramsay. His unique job title reflects a modern approach: combining talent acquisition with digital experience to ensure technology serves people, not the other way around.
What You'll Learn:
- How Kevin's early NHS experience shaped his process-driven approach to recruitment
- Why Ramsay deliberately avoids AI screening in recruitment, and when that might change
- The lessons learned from a challenging Workday implementation
- How COVID transformed recruitment from face-to-face to virtual overnight
- Why change management is critical, and how lack of confidence can affect both sides of a vendor relationship
- The importance of data integration: making Workday and Optima work as one system
- How Loop and smart rostering will transform workforce management
- Why healthcare shouldn't always be at the forefront of technology adoption
Kevin Feely brings over twenty years of healthcare recruitment and workforce experience, with expertise spanning NHS trusts, private healthcare providers, and pathology organisations. His role combines strategic talent acquisition with technology enablement, ensuring that people systems support rather than hinder the organisation's goals.
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Episode Resources
- Kevin Feely on LinkedIn
- Ramsay Health Care UK Website
- Liz Jones on LinkedIn
- Darren Kilroy on LinkedIn
- RLDatix Website
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