Dharmesh Patel Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, United Kingdom

I work with clients across the health and care spectrum, to support and lead on their technology-enabled care ambition and objectives. I have delivered projects and programmes worth circa £2.5m and secured opportunities worth in excess of £2m. Assignments that I have led teams on or delivered have included:- Establishing and running an Automation Centre of Enablement (CoE) across a major community and mental trust in London.- A pre-programme digital readiness assessment at one of the largest acute trusts in England.- Adoption and expansion of a regional shared care record programme.- Implementation of the Government's Digitising Social Care Programme across two separate ICS areas.- Production of an Outline Business Case based on the Treasury's five-case model for two acute trusts who were seeking funding support for a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Short term assignment working with a board of newly appointed Non-Executive Advisers and existing Council Leadership Team to assure the Council's strategic planning and delivery of the target operating model.

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

Lead consultant role with various clients on projects including:➢ Strategy and five case model business case development for an integrated care record solution; and➢ Due diligence of a mobile app solution on behalf of an investment company.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Led on the implementation of a new pharma supply chain contract, moving from 'Direct to Pharmacy' to 'Reduced Wholesale' agreement. Working with the business and pharma manufacturer, I was responsible for ensuring that each functional area (supply chain, finance, IT, BI, logistics, network operations and communications) has scoped, implemented, documented and successfully tested the necessary changes to meet the new contract requirements from go-live and within budget.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Responsible for undertaking a countywide diagnostics review with stakeholders across the provider and commissioning community within the context of planned and urgent care. Responsibilities included carrying out an as-is analysis of existing service operations, activity, resourcing, workforce, infrastructure and expenditure, and facilitating workshops with senior operational and clinical leads to develop an aligned view of the Target Operating Model for future service delivery.

West Bromwich, West Midlands, United Kingdom

I was responsible for project managing the delivery of core solution functionality within Interserve's own FM business, mobilising new contracts and supporting client side PMs on hardware deployment, testing, training and cutover activity.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Provided project and change management expertise to GP Practices that are merging or seeking to re-engineer their businesses to ensure resilience and sustainability in the face of increasing customer demand and reduced funding. I was responsible for facilitating workshops to help define a vision and strategy, developed project plans, communications plans and material, and change management action plans covering people, process, culture, technology and organisation enabled change. I also provided training to staff to ensure skills transfer around benefits realisation and process mapping.

Burton

Project management of patient therapy and/or homecare provider switch contracts on behalf of pharma and healthcare clients. Role included development and execution of individual project plans, internal and external stakeholder management, establishing TORs, setting up reporting frameworks, risk and issue management, documenting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and process mapping.

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Project managed the transfer of secondary and community care commissioning responsibility for Gloucestershire residents living on the English/Welsh border from NHS Wales to Gloucestershire CCG. Responsibilities included the development and implementation of the overall project plan, working with stakeholders to implement the component workstream activities, as well as developing the reporting and governance framework.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Assigned to Jaguar Land Rover to support their global SAP programme rollout and expansion of supply chain operations to Brazil and China. Responsible for working with national and international suppliers to unblock business and technical issues, and implement sustainable changes.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for working with local authority clients on specific assignments including a housing transformation programme and a strategic review of health and social care services. Also led on bid development work and creation of technology-enabled service transformation wrappers.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for creating the in-house change management capability and leading the deployment of all of DLS’ digital products and services with a focus on embedding transformational and sustainable business changes through service improvement that is business-led and benefits-driven.

London, United Kingdom

Public sector focused management consultancy. Assignments included Regional Business Change Manager role on a national NHS IT programme providing IT-enabled change management services to primary (GP/Out of Hours) and secondary (hospitals, mental health and community trusts) care implementation programmes.Also took a lead role on building the in-house business change and transformation capability, training and mentoring of junior consultants.

Responsible for providing facilitated business change consultancy to Police Forces in England and Wales on a major IT project. Role included ensuring that business benefits were realised from the efficient use of new applications by developing a sustainable change management programme with Senior Management Teams for implementation force-wide.

Responsible for leading revenue generating consulting projects across the UK, Middle East and Asia Pacific on assignments spanning competitor analysis, due diligence, BPR, and IT system evaluation and selection. Also undertook a business development / account management role including contract negotiation, bid proposal preparation and presentation.