About Dyfodol

Ollie John is Head of Dyfodol.

Prior to establishing Dyfodol, he held the post of Head of RCPsych in Wales, and was also Chair of the Royal College Mental Health Expert Advisory Group.

Ollie can be contacted directly.

Professor Alka Ahuja is National Clinical Lead for Dyfodol.

Alka is a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist.

She is a Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. Her interests include qualitative research, neurodevelopmental disorders, co-production in healthcare and digital health, and she has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. Her research on the psychosocial issues affecting street children in India has received national and international recognition.

Alka was awarded an MBE for services to the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

All Dyfodol enquiries should be directed to Ollie John.

Quarterly activity reports are produced alongside every Dyfodol Governance Board meeting; whilst further detail is regularly posted on the website.

Additionally, an Annual Activity report is due to be published in September.

Dyfodol is hosted by the NCCMH, which has a 25 year history of the review of evidence and co-production of guidance, standards, workforce competences and quality improvement (QI) initiatives to enable the delivery of high-quality, equitable mental health care. NCCMH is a department of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a partnership with University College London.

Further information on the work of NCCMH is available.

The NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (JCC) is a formal committee representing all seven Health Boards in Wales. While each Health Board plans and delivers services for its own local population, some services are so specialist, complex, or low‑volume that they need to be commissioned once for the whole of Wales.

The JCC brings the Health Boards together to do exactly this, ensuring that nationally commissioned services are planned consistently, collaboratively, delivered safely, and available equitably to everyone, wherever they live in Wales.