Project Portfolio

• Cancer Network Project Management Support - support to a significant event audit project in primary care around lung cancer diagnosis
• Development of an End of Life Care Strategy - Working with our commissioning clients to produce a strategy for consultation
• Procurement of Orthodontics - Support and production of procurement documentation and evaluation tools
• Transforming Community Services - Support for the process and production of tools for management of community contracts
• Minor Surgery Review - Working for primary care commissioners to review the provision of minor surgery and make recommendations on future provision and opportunities
• Mapping 'You're Welcome' Quality Criteria in Commissioning - Working for the Government Office North East this project was mapping the use of young people's You're Welcome Quality Criteria in the commissioning of health services.  It involved engaging with both health service and local government commissioners and negotiating further rollout and reporting status in contract and service level agreements.
• Procurement of three GP led Health Centres and six GP Practices - Working for a cluster of 3 PCTs supporting all aspects of project management for the Equitable Access to Primary Medical Care Programme (EAPMC). This included the development of the memorandum of information; the evaluation of pre-qualification questionnaires; the invitation to tender documentation; the evaluation plan and evaluation models; all summary reports (including consultation reports and summaries); debriefs for unsuccessful tenderers and mobilisation (from contract signature to service commencement, including working with solicitors to finalise contracts)
• Service Review and Reform - Service reviews for an Acute Foundation Trust including support for the implementation of recommendations
• International Primary Care Development - Working for the Ministry of Public Health in Thailand this work supported the introduction of primary care and family health medicine.  This included work on social marketing and advocacy
• Marketing and Communications -This project supported the development of a marketing and communications strategy for an independent health care company
• Clinical Benefits Advisor - Part of Connecting for Health's (CfH) Service Implementation Team the Clinical Benefits Advisor engaged with NHS leaders, users, clinicians and managers to help them fully realise the benefits that could be realised from the range of service initiatives taking place across the NHS. The role demanded clinical experience in the front-line NHS, operational experience of dealing with complex IT-driven change management programmes, and an authoritative understanding of all clinical, cultural and benefits issues
• Support for Service Tendering - Assisting an acute Foundation Trust with a tender application for Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy
• Training on Business Skills - working with a GP practice managers group to  deliver training on business strategy, business planning and negotiation
• Facilitation - providing faciliation for a wide range of seminars and workshops from Healthy City Partnership Groups working at a strategic level to smaller operational teams working within organisations
• Process Mapping - for clinicians working on the Pandemic Flu planning in the North East
• Patient Information Accreditation Scheme - This assignment consisted of consultancy support to develop appropriate standards to support the Department of Health’s Information Accreditation Scheme. The role entailed defining the type of information applicable to the scheme and the development of a standard to form the basis for independent third party assessment 
• Information Standards Scoping Study - for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), an analysis of the functions, roles and processes, including work flows, associated with the development, implementation and management of data standards in support of service delivery, system specification and the improvement of information management and decision making
• IT System design, development and implementation - working across numerous health delivery environments (National, Local and Service specific), with a range of system users and system providers to develop appropriate designs, architectures and implementation options. Working with users to identify information requirements and working with system suppliers to 'convert' these requirements into operational solutions
• Business Case Development - National Programme for IT (NPfIT) the provision of a range of specialist support and assistance in the development of PACS business cases at National, Cluster and Trust level
• Business Support - National Clinical Audit Programme (NCASP). Programme and Project Management across a diverse range of projects. Working with NCASP staff nationally and front line clinical staff locally to ensure clinical audit activities were consistent with NCASP priorities, procedures and working practice whilst supporting local objectives and service delivery
• Information Governance - Numerous projects associated with information governance across the NHS. This included the development of a framework 'model' for assessment, review, action planning and compliance associated with mandated information governance standards
• Business Strategy development - across all health delivery environments within organisational and strategic management. Supporting the local application of national policy to develop business strategies and effective solutions to deliver corporate objectives
• Data Accreditation - as an NHSIA approved auditor numerous structured evaluations to determine Trusts' level of compliance against each of the standards defined in the NHS Data Accreditation. These assessments were carried out as part of Stage 2 of the mandatory Data Accreditation Programme  
• IT Infrastructure Review - for an NHS Acute Trust covering a baseline review of existing IT infrastructure, the development of an Options Appraisal, including risks, benefits and anticipated costs and a Strategic Plan describing the way forward
• Information and Information Technology Management - for a large mental health and community trust. This included the development of IM&T strategy and associated policies and aligning these with the changing business environment. Key to this project was leading the organisation's IM&T support service through a complex reorganisation in response to local community healthcare services reconfigurations and internal revised management arrangements. In addition to 'selling'  IM&T benefits to the clinical community at operational and board levels.  This included establishing cross organisational partnerships to look at developing revised IM&T solutions in response to emerging models of healthcare delivery and increasing management awareness  and recognition of the integration and interconnectivity  of IM&T and business objectives