Meet the Band…
Our group is rich in specialist skills, implementation credentials and a relentless focus on getting the best for our clients.
We are experienced healthcare advisory and industry experts who have worked in large international hospitals, commissioners, policy makers and with government regulators. With the benefit of true expert knowledge and practical experience, we can deliver more thoughtful, creative and powerful work. We seek to match and enhance your specialist knowledge and expertise. Without the need for large corporate infrastructure, our cost base is lower, our agility is higher and we transfer those benefits directly to you.
Specialist Operators
John Bennett
Commissioning, Strategy and Complex Change
Former GMTS Trainee, John has a portfolio of over 28 years’ experience in Healthcare Management.
He has advised over 100 organisations during his career over 4 continents.
John has been a Board Director in the Healthcare Commissioning sector and has worked on policy formulation within the UK and New Zealand, notably on Integrated Care, Hospital Waiting Times and Commissioning.
John has extensive healthcare implementation experience in hospital operations, commissioning,strategic reform, performance improvement, financial recovery and market analysis, and has worked in some of the largest and most influential global healthcare organisations.
John has co-developed a philanthropic web based navigation service for patients waiting for surgical treatment in the UK.
www.mywaitingtime.co.uk
John has an MA in Managing Healthcare Organisations awarded by the University of Manchester Business School.
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Professor Mark Britnell
Associate – Global Counsel
Mark works as an Associate to Strat Health in Australasia. Mark has dedicated all his 35 years of professional experience to the development of healthcare around the world, having worked in 81 countries on 425+ occasions.
He is a professor at the Global Business School for Health at University College London and at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he teaches the next generation of healthcare leaders on the comparative performance of health systems globally.
Mark started his career on the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and became one of the youngest ever teaching hospital chief executives at 34, leading University Hospitals Birmingham where he masterminded the largest new hospital development in NHS history. He went onto run NHS South Central, leading the NHS from Oxford to the Isle of Wight before taking a position as a Director General at the Department of Health where he sat on the NHS Management Board.
He joined KPMG in 2009 as Global Head of Health and later became Global Head of Health, Government & Infrastructure, responsible for nearly one-quarter of KPMG global revenues. He was made Vice Chair of KPMG UK in 2020 and has writen two books which have sold in 106 countries and been translated into Mandarin, Korean and Portuguese. ‘In Search of the Perfect Health System’ won first prize awards in China and the UK and his second book, ‘Human: Solving the Global Workforce Crisis in Healthcare’ anticipated the world-wide shortage of healthcare staff.
From 2023, Mark established his own enterprise and has a portfolio of positions in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. He speaks internationally and travels often. He sits on the Board of the King’s Fund and has held several charity positions, including Prostate Cancer UK. Mark survived prostate cancer at the age of 42 and donated all his book royalties to cancer research and care.
Jack Short
Hospital Operations, Programme Management
A senior development and transformation expert with experience in multiple business ownership models (Private Equity, PLC, Start up and Public Sector). Specialising in creating operational and organisational value through effective management and engagement in the delivery of complex integration projects including mergers, acquisitions, business process outsourcing and Greenfield projects.
Jack’s recent experiences have come in the field of elective care programme management, primary care development and the execution of integrated health systems in the UK.
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Colette O’Kane
Organisational Design Development & Performance
Colette is an experienced Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the Health and Social Care Sector. Strong consulting professional skilled in System, Organisational and Leadership Development, Business Process, Coaching, Business Process Design, Business Case, and Executive Coaching.
An expert facilitator with experience in developing and delivering large scale complex events.
Good humoured and energetic with demonstrated credibility working at grass roots or strategically. Over 20 years nursing, NHS research and managerial experience – including the delivery of national clinical development programmes. 10 years of consulting and project delivery, working in strategic, provider and commissioner organisations.
Dr. Peter Robbins
Clinical Lead, Theatre Productivity & Hospital Operations
Peter is a consultant in cardiothoracic anaesthesia and intensive care. He was trained in London gaining experience at several major teaching hospitals and tertiary centres. He is currently an NHS consultant in the South West Cardiac Centre and also regularly works at the Nuffield Hospital, Plymouth providing anaesthetic services to a range of surgical specialities.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and also the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.
Dr Robbins has recently been awarded a distinction in his Masters of Laws degree from Cardiff University. He has provided expert witness statements for cases involving anaesthesia and critical care.
He has several years experience working in management consultancy both in the UK and overseas in addition to working with NHS Improvement.
Professor Robin Gauld
Evidence Based Policy & Strategy
Robin is a Specialist in health systems, health policy, and health management with focus on New Zealand, Asia and global health. He has worked in many countries on almost every health topic from hospital waiting lists through to primary care, governance and information technology.
Significant leadership experience:
Served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor Commerce and Dean of Otago Business School for over six years from 2016-23 leading new strategic direction and initiatives.
Served on many AACSB and EQUIS accreditation peer review teams globally. President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools 2020-22.
Chair of [Health] Alliance South 2013-2017.
Director of Business South 2022-.
Harkness Senior Fellow.
Various national and international collaborations and international advisory roles.
PhD University of Hong Kong (1996) in health administration.
Doctor of Commerce (2018) in healthcare governance Victoria University Wellington.
Now working between the Dunedin School of Medicine and Otago Business School in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine and Department of Management.
Affiliated with Te Maea, the Maori Business and Economy group at the Business School, the Bioethics Centre and Otago Global Health Institute.
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Andy Irvine
Hospital Operations. Community Services Transformation.
Former GMTS Trainee, Andy has 30 years’ experience delivering performance improvement and value across the UK, Australia and Europe.
He is credentialed in performance and delivery management, particularly in areas such as Acute Care, National Clinical Networks, Community Services, Mental Health & Financial performance.
Andy has led quality improvement programmes that have had high profile media and political exposure.
He brings unrivalled experience in implementation of strategy and operational productivity targets.
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Nick Bowden
Economics & Strategy
Nick Bowden is a quantitative social scientist specialising in life course research using linked population-level data. He is a national expert in the use of the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) for health research. Nick’s research focuses on novel uses of linked health and non-health data for evidence-based contributions toward policy formation, reducing inequities, and improving quality of life. He has published extensively in high impact journals and authored a number of commissioned reports. Nick is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of Otago. He has a number of advisory roles including for the Virtual Health Information Network, Autism New Zealand, the Child Youth Mortality Review Committee, and the National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement. He is based in Dunedin.
Paul Wood
Commissioning and Health Strategy
Experienced programme director & management consultant with an extensive track record in the field of health and social care, undertaking previous roles across acute, community and primary care sectors, care service integration and system transformation.
Paul has worked on place-based service local councils and primary care groups/ federations and the application of population health management approaches in the UK, New Zealand and Canada.
David Baker
Change Agent, Strategist and Coach
24 Years consulting experience and 6 years experience as an NHS Executive. Certificate of International Advanced Consulting and Leadership. ILM Level 7 Executive Coach and Mentor. MSP Advanced Practitioner Programme Manager.
Executive Portfolio covering Strategy, and Strategy Execution, Performance, Insight, Innovation and Improvement including the introduction of a Continuous Improvement System. Lead Executive on Horizontal Integration through the Provider Collaborative.
Perpetual learner around: Execution; Strategy, Leadership; Innovation, Operating Models: Improvement Systems; Coaching and Operational Improvement. Key authors include: Lencioni; Sinek; Covey; Morgan; Goldratt; Liker; Syed; Christiensen; Goleman; Dignan; Doerr; Kenney; Toussaint; Barnas.
Session Specialists
We believe our group of Operators can bring you success by connecting solutions, people and ideas. We have networks of connected people with shared interests and goals across the world, and that is our way of producing results and meeting your requirements.
Operations Performance: Phil Calvert
Outcomes & Commissioning: Andy Smith
Leadership: Karen Lynas
Clinical: Dr. Mike Smith
Sustainability: Simon Mathewson
Commissioning and Population Health: Prof. Joe Rafferty CBE
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