Consultant / Programme Manager / Lead 2007 – present – contracting via own limited company providing NHS Informatics Transformation & Performance Improvement

Health informatics consultancy & interim support for NHS acute trusts. This has evolved into the provision of strategic & leadership services alongside delivery and change management of informatics programmes & projects. Notable delivery for 5 clients include:

• Informatics Programme Architect, Lead & Delivery SME
• Elective Reporting Recovery Programme Lead & Delivery SME
• Data Warehouse Architect & Delivery SME
• Data Quality Strategy Consultant
• Interim Head of Business Intelligence Unit
• Interim CTO

Notable Projects

Elective Reporting Recovery Programme – Programme Lead, Architect & Delivery SME

This programme took a Foundation Trust from an enforced RTT reporting break, post-PAS migration, through a reporting & DQ transformation.  Responsible for:

• Leading a team of 44 and project team of 15 (clinicians, managers & admin staff)
• Negotiations with external stakeholders & regulators
• Creation of a data quality team to reduce validation budget (£750K)
• The IT systems team in reconfiguration of the PAS
• The IT training team in rewriting / redelivery of PAS training modules

Cancer Informatics Strategy Programme – Programme Lead, Architect & Delivery SME

This programme took a University Hospital Trust to a single Cancer Information solution, through the merging of legacy departments, systems & reporting processes. Responsible for:

• Leading a team of 4 and project team of 20
• EPR merge 1M referrals, with 0.003% errors deduplicating10K referrals
• Merging & reconciliation of legacy reporting processes
• Merging and redesign of legacy integration processes
• Infrastructure soak testing simulating 200 simultaneous users
• Repeatable reconciliation of 450 million pre/post-merge data points
• A zero business disruption at go-live

Cancer / ED / Sexual Health / RTT / Trust Data Warehouses – Project Lead, Architect & Delivery SME

Delivered across a number of projects in numerous organisations. Responsible for:

• Architecture and data modelling of a variety of NHS datasets
• Coaching & upskilling informatics staff
• Development & deployment
• Near-realtime data pipelines
• System inter-ops and integrations (HL7 / API / ETL)

Reporting & Analytical Solutions – Project Lead, Architect & Delivery SME

Delivered across a number of projects in numerous organisations. Responsible for:

• Low-code SSIS & QlikView reporting solutions (scripted config automation)
• System inter-ops and integrations (system links / writeback)
• Peak occupancy algorithm for beds / ED – vs ineffective occupancy snapshots or average occupancy masking effective demand
• Pathway follow-ups for outpatients – vs unactionable new:follow-up ratio that has no relevance at a patient level
• Theatres potential throughput – differentiates lost theatre time into potential utilisation or re-appropriation

Steering Committee Member 2024 – Present – NHS Data Engineering Community

Co-responsible for the strategic development of community to:

• Connect – bring industry & a staff exchange function to the community
• Listen – establish a survey & representative member councils
• Help – establish community run consultation clinics
• De-duplicate – establish a library of code & standards / strategy documents
• Learn – curate a programme of presentation events
• Socialise – run hackathons & grow the community

For further information on this candidate, please use reference number 058