Pat Oakley Email and Phone Number

Dr Patricia Oakley, Director, Practices Made Perfect, is a retired Strategic Service & Workforce Policy Analyst, and Workforce Research Fellow at King’s College, London University. She is now writing historical novels about medical and organisational politics under her writer’s name Annie Graham – see patoakleypublishing.london for details.Previous posts:-Adviser to the Chief Scientific Officer’s Healthcare Scientists Workforce Policy Group.-Coordinator of the Healthcare Science Doctoral Programme, King’s College, London University.-Chair, Workforce Planning Policy Stream, Minister’s Next Stage Review (2007-2009).-Tutor of public health and public policy post-graduate students in management and strategic workforce risk assessment at King’s College, the LSE and the RCP-Birkbeck College Clinicians’ Leadership Programme.-Lead Tutor, NHS Wales’ National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare. -Non-Executive Director of the English National Board for Nursing and Midwifery. -Special Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Health.-Special Adviser to the Scottish Executive’s Integrated Workforce Planning Group.-President of the Association of Healthcare Human Resource Managers (AHHRM).Awarded HPMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 Key areas of policy work include:-Supporting Dept. of Health (DH), Health Education England and NHS England’s Policy Programmes: Children’s and Young People’s Services Workforce Review; 7 Day Services Workforce Review; Cardiac Care and Echo Services Workforce Review; the Genomics Workforce Strategy; and the potential role of predictive analytics in scheduling urgent care.-Coordinating the DH’s Healthcare Science Doctoral Programme at King’s College, London University, to support the development of England’s healthcare science workforce modelling procedures, policies and analytical methodology.-Building, with specialist colleagues, strategic workforce risk assessment and planning models and preparing strategic workforce investment plans for senior management teams and national policymakers, e.g. medical, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, management and scientific workforces.-Developing evidence for national-level policies in assessing the potential impact of commercial enterprises (multi-national and small businesses) on health service delivery, and the implications for the future of professional groups in the 21st Century.-Supporting local board and clinical leadership development programmes and delivering policy masterclasses as part of local staff and cross-sector leadership development programmes.