▪ CRS Programme Manager (Interim), for Royal Berkshire Hospital Foundation Trust, managed the successful procurement of an integrated acute hospital-wide EPR system through to contract award in June 2009 (taking 6 months) outside NPfIT
▪ EPR Procurement Manager (Interim), for Rotherham Hospital Foundation Trust, managed the successful procurement of an integrated acute hospital-wide EPR system from OJEC ad to contract award in February 2009 (taking just over 7 months) outside NPfIT
▪ For the World Health Organisation in China, conducted a Technical Assessment of the Knowledge Management System recently developed to support senior policy makers and policy researchers in the Chinese Ministry of Health. Assessed system design, functionality, technical platform, user interface, project management and training elements. Study was funded by the British Department for International Development.
▪ Supporting a private Independent Sector Treatment Centre company in the UK, including procurement and implementation (across over 30 sites) of electronic patient record system, integrated RIS/PACS, pathology, interface engine, infrastructure outsourcing, MPLS Wide Area Network, management information systems, logistics and other related services.
▪ Providing consulting services to a range of multi-national blue-chip companies and other private healthcare companies in the US, UK, Northern Ireland, France and SE Asia
▪ Providing specialist advice on the healthcare IT market globally and in specific sectors e.g. private healthcare sector, electronic patient records, clinical decision support systems for wide areas
▪ For a ‘Big 5’ Consultancy firm, completed in April 2006 a major research project investigating the factors causing healthcare IT to be adopted by healthcare delivery organisations.
▪ Member, Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) – Greater China Special Interest Group, Education Committee

(Programme Director) National Programme for IT
▪ Managed £1bn contract budget and team of 120 IT and Clinical staff
▪ Coordinated the 5 Strategic Health Authority CIOs in London
▪ Achieved large scale process redesigns based on best clinical practices
▪ Engaged Chief Executives, Medical Directors, Nursing Directors
▪ Developed strategic vision for London as the World’s Leading Metropolitan Healthcare System - endorsed by the Mayor of London
▪ Implemented first PACS systems, first Choose & Book compliant GP systems, and first acute PAS for London as part of the NHS National Programme for IT
▪ Directly involved with the specification of the £6bn National Clinical Records Service
▪ Assisted in the establishment of the first Technical Architect for the National Programme for IT; assisted in the technical architecture for the National Programme for IT

EPR UK, Managing Director (UK)
▪ Managed a procurement budget of £100m+ and small team of IT consultants, including clinicians
▪ Coordinated the EPR projects across 3 major teaching hospitals in West London (Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital)
▪ Swindon & Marlborough NHS Hospitals Trust – Provided a Project Management Team for the implementation of the hospital’s Electronic Patient Record System (from System C) and PACS system (from Storcomm)

▪ Managed a budget of £25m + (over 8 years) and an IT Department with 50 to 100 IT staff, including clinicians
▪ Developed Electronic Patient Record (EPR) strategy, procured EPR system (from IDX) and implemented EPR system across the entire hospital enterprise
▪ As a result of successfully managing a major change management programme, all 2000+ clinicians in hospital used the system and continue to do so
▪ Achieved one of the most advanced enterprise-wide clinical systems implementations in the UK
▪ Led a group of senior clinicians and managers on a tour of US suppliers and their reference sites to review health information systems, including Siemens, McKesson, Cerner and IDX.

▪ Consulted for various District Health Authorities and NHS Trusts on IT strategy and procurements
▪ Directed the development of the first Healthcare Resource Grouping (HRG) software package for the NHS in England – still in use today
▪ Established NHS Marketing Reports as a commercial business for PW
▪ Toured US practices to review health IT systems development and implementation practices

▪ Directed the Resource Management Programme for the NHS in Wales
▪ Consulted for several Scottish, England and Welsh Hospitals on IT strategy, IT organisation structure and Resource Management
▪ Led a team of clinicians on a study tour of leading Hospital Information System installations in the US, England and Australia

▪ Managed the Market Planning function for AMI, UK
▪ Responsible for the microcomputer installations across 12 hospitals
▪ Managed a team of 9 staff to develop/support medium sized systems

▪ Reported to the CEO of this major teaching centre in New York
▪ Responsible for the strategic planning function for the Hospital
▪ Successfully bid for research grant to investigate severity of illness measures as an adjustment to casemix Diagnostic Related Groups (DRGs); co-authored published paper on results
▪ Supported the world-leading implementation of the Electronic Patient Record System (from Technicon Data Systems) which was rolled-out hospital wide and included full Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) and Electronic Prescribing and Medications Administration (EPMA) by all doctors and nurses in the hospital.