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Covid-19 Impact Analysis: Created models to assess the effects of Covid-19 on hospital bed capacity and discharge processes, aiding strategic planning and resource allocation.Stakeholder Collaboration: Worked with health system leaders to validate assumptions and communicate outcomes, ensuring alignment and informed decisions.Reporting and Analysis: Led the development of weekly recovery reports on elective activity, diagnostics, and primary care, ensuring alignment with NHS England guidelines.Team Leadership: Fostered the development of a cohesive analytical team, supporting Integrated Care System strategies and the Covid-19 vaccine rollout.Elective Recovery: Contributed to the recovery of elective services, developed elective hubs, and addressed treatment backlogs, accelerating progress in the NCL system.

Delivering a high quality business intelligence service to support Camden Clinical Commissioning Group deliver on an ambitious quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) agenda; delivering high quality care in a tighter economic climate; with core day-to-day activities relating to: o QIPP performance monitoring o QIPP opportunity modelling o Comparative analysis/bench-marking o Evaluating new models of care o Data qualityActing as the lead business intelligence support for Camden CCG’s QIPP plan delivery and the lead for all QIPP monthly BI reporting, ensuring that all routine reports are delivered within agreed timescales and to a high standard.Responsible for modelling QIPP schemes within all commissioning portfolios, including local and STP programmes of work.Supporting the Head of QIPP Planning & Monitoring to develop future plans, identifying potential opportunities through review of provider data-sets to understand performance and assisting commissioners to identify further QIPP opportunities.Providing specialist business intelligence advice to commissioners, identifying areas where reporting and analysis can support improvement in health care services.

Providing business insight for key functions across North Central London Clinical Commissioning Groups (NCL CCGs), which includes:• Planning and performance• NCL Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP)• Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) planning and delivery• Urgent and emergency care system resilience• CSU relationshipEnsuring NCL CCGs understand how providers are performing in real time, what the pattern of performance has been and what their expectations for service use will be going forward. This requires the development of strong relationships with providers, close working with analytical/planning teams and a proactive approach to understanding patient activity, developing a culture of performance management internally as well as externally.Acting as the main contact point for NCL CCGs and supporting CCG submissions to NHS England in relation to performance, the operating plan as part of operational planning, CCGs assurance processes and alignment of planning and delivery assumptions.Supporting CCG directors of planning, performance, delivery and finance on the annual planning round and delivery of financial and operating plans to deliver constitutional, QIPP, STP and other targets and undertaking assurance processes to endure that NHS England requirements are met.Developing, implementing and maintaining systems to ensure efficient and effective collection of all performance management data and wider business intelligence, identifying challenges and areas of slippage in the programme and escalating within CCG and STP programme structures.Line management responsibility including monitoring staff performance and taking appropriate action where necessary, managing professional and personal development through regular appraisals and identifying their training and development needs. Ensuring all team members comply with information governance standards.

Providing analytical support to Islington CCG and Direct Commissioning Business Intelligence function, developing strong and robust relationships with internal and external stakeholders and clients.Preparing analysis for areas such as, commissioning intensions and QIPP; interpreting the analysis to persuade the CCG of the rationale behind required changes in services.Actively sourcing and interpreting complex health intelligence information from a variety of sources, including public health, SUS and other SCGs, and advising stakeholders on the implications of this data for specialised, dental and offender health services. Ensuring effective links with CCG stakeholders with responsibility for supplying data required for planning, trend analysis and reports for a range of stakeholders.Proactively identifying opportunities to improve the business intelligence service, and contributing to staff development initiatives.Advising stakeholders of the impact of activity on financial projections and quality outcomes and effective communication of highly complex statistical and analytical information to nontechnical audiences.Strong working knowledge and experience of complex informatics issues, including the Specialised Services Identification Rules, SUS and SLAM data, clinical codes, payment by results and HRGs, synthesising information from a range of functions, including financial, clinical and epidemiological fields.Responsible for the development of strategies to source new data to support commissioning, providing expert analytical support to the commissioning of new services, service designation and service reviews.Working proactively to develop strong working relationships internally and externally and representing NEL CSU on various organisational, multi-agency groups and contract negotiating teams in order to provide expert analytical input.

Development of operational, contractual and ad-hoc activity and quality data analysis and reporting. Focusing on acute healthcare providers' SUS/SLAM data including The Royal Free, Barnet and Chase Farm and Royal National Orthopaedics Hospitals.Undertaking scenario analysis & planning and focus on reporting to a range of internal and external stakeholders including Contracting, Finance and CCGs, providing complex advice and reports. Contributing to performance management analysis and improvement to support and facilitate planning and risk management processes, identifying key quality and performance indicators. Analysis and interpretation of complex data sets using SQL Server to interrogate complex relational databases, relating to trends, patterns and anomalies. Lead analyst for a large acute providers within the North Central London geographical area. Attending regular acute Trust, CCG & CSU technical meetings representing analytics and supporting other CSU departments and CCGs. Ensuring effective links with providers with responsibility for supplying data required for analysis.Training and developing staff in key skills associated with health intelligence.Analytical support to the development of commissioning budgets; loading budgets into data warehouse and undertaking budget and activity modelling; monitoring provider activity and finance to notify variances and projected performance. Lead for different aspects of contract negotiations, including agreement of Baselines, CCG Offers Options and the Information & DQIP schedules.Leading on projects, particularly on FOI (Freedom of Information) requests from the general public, on behalf of the whole Analytics team ranging from new reporting requirements, technical developments on data warehouse, operational improvements or representing the Analytics team on a multi-disciplinary team project initiative.

Supporting the successful delivery of Contracting and Performance Management functions within the North and Central London (NCL) Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG).Responsible for the co-ordination and production of performance and analysis reports for monitoring and managing all standard NHS Contracts and other service agreements.Supporting the Acute and the Non-Acute Contracts managers to ensure successful delivery of contracting and performance management functions.Responsible for monitoring and analysing performance within the contractual and performance framework, applying contractual penalties where performance or quality thresholds have been breached.Assisting in the coordination and minute taking of the Contract Negotiation Meetings, supporting implementation of any action plans identified.Carrying out contractual and performance management processes through monthly Contract Review Group meetings.Processing and tracking SLA and NCA invoices for the five NCL CCGs using the NHS Shared Business Services (SBS).Liaising with Contract Managers and Finance colleagues to undertake monthly Activity and Finance Reporting and quarterly financial reconciliation of contracts, ensuring that payments made for contract variations and achievement of CQUINs are correct and in line with contract requirements.Assisting Contract Managers in the negotiation of service agreements and contracts, including the compilation of NHS Standard contract documentation.Maintaining lists of all the Commissioner Leads for the Acute and Non Acute Providers, Lead Commissioners, Local Authorities and Associate CCGs, ensuring that the relevant NHS Standards Contracts are issued and signed.

Responsible for ensuring that information to support the Trust’s £800 million income is provided to Trust managers, commissioners and both local and national stake holders, in accordance with a strict national timetable.Producing key reports to a strict timetable for directorate leads, commissioning bodies, consortia, CSS (London wide commissioning support services), and finance colleagues.Collating and presenting routine activity monitoring information in a timely and accurate manner to agreed formats and time-scales ensuring that clear interpretation has been made to assist service and finance managers measure their performance against plan.Providing information relating to contractual and non contractual activity on a monthly basis to enable timely and accurate invoices to be raised, and acting as the single point of contact for all commissioner queries and challenges that arise.Processing and quality assurance of manual activity feeders from a range of data providers across all specialties including the JAC Medicines Management System, and other NHS Trusts where Guy’s and St Thomas’ has a sub-contract arrangement. Reconciling feeder data to reported data prior to producing patient level reports to support billing.Loading of commissioner, consortia and over performance plans in liaison with financial planning departments, and making necessary adjustments throughout the year as changes are made to plans.Ensure that key reference tables, which include contract categories, HRGs Specification, reference costs and special clinics, are updated and loaded appropriately.Responding to queries from CCGs and NHS England in liaison with the data quality manager where the correct patient or activity details needed for CCG/NHSE assignment are in doubt or have been questioned. Altering local processes and procedures as appropriate and putting measures in place to minimise commissioner queries

Collating business and clinical data from multiple sources to undertake complex analysis and interpretation for monitoring teams on compliance with agreed metrics and outcome measures, which in turn supports the decision making processes in the Behavioural and Developmental Psychiatry Clinical Academic Group.Working in collaboration with the Deputy Director of Clinical Service Delivery, Heads of Clinical Pathways and Management accountants within the BDP CAG, in the delivery of systems to capture inpatient daily activities and costs relating to patient escorts; observations; secure transport; use of tagging devices; and AWOLs.Collaboration with the Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experience Lead to ensure the Mental Health PbR clustering of all activity, evidencing and monitoring the clinical effectiveness of services through the Health and Social Care Outcomes of the treated population through regular monitoring and reporting to the Performance and Strategic Delivery Division.

Allocation and management of services for a nationwide security company. Monitoring activity at sites in line with clients' needs and dispatching security guards and emergency services to areas when emergencies occur.

Using Computer Aided Telephone Interviewer (CATI) and CfMC research software to conduct market research with consumers and businesses as well as undertaking field interviews and mystery shopping.