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Responsible for the delivery of IT projects and programmes across three Acute hospitals in Leicester with a revenue budget of £8m and capital budget of £4m. Management of team of 12 staff providing strategic, account management, project management and change management services for the IT services and new systems implementation.Key Achievements:Programme Manager for the procurement and implementation of a 10 year, £60m contract with IBM for the management of IT services and future IT enabled transformational projects.Programme Manager for procuring and implementing a document management and electronic patient record systems.Development and contribution to our IT Strategy.

Responsible for the delivery of IT services across three Acute hospitals in Leicester with a revenue budget of £6m and capital budget of £4m to deliver the following;The development and implementation of the IM&T strategy for UHL and the secondary care component for Community Services. Delivery of the IM&T Programme and implementation of new services and systems. The operational delivery of IT systems across University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and peripheral organizations including the PCT community hospitals and GP practices. Key Achievements:Development of Programme Brief and Programme Initiation Document for the delivery and implementation of the Lorenzo Strategic Solution for secondary careRestructured the IM&T programme services to move from implementation to exploitation and embedding of ITS solutions. Implementation of the Interim Tactical Solution (ITS); order comms, sexual health system, PACS, maternity system, Discharge communications to GPs, Patient level costing and business intelligence solutionDevelopment of e-learning solutionsInvestment in wireless, storage and VMware solutions to support business solutionsImplementation of IT standards programme - ITIL and NIMM to raise service desk and computer operations standards and delivery of services to the Trust

Develop and implement the IM&T Strategy for UHL to meet local business needs and wider NHS objectives in alignment with the National Programme for IT and the co-dependencies with the local health community to enable clinicians to access patient records across the various health organisationsEnsure engagement with key stakeholders, establishment of programme or project structures and organisational readiness for the introduction of new technologies to enable the successful achievement of business objectives and benefits realisationDelivery of operational services supporting the deployment and use of IT within the trust from administrative/clinical applications to the development and integration of systems including the delivery of systems architecture supporting the IM&T StrategyManagement of both revenue (£2m 07/08) and capital (£8m 07/08) budgets. Key Achievements:Negotiated and secured the implementation of an interim solution, outside of the national model, with the LSP, initially Accenture then CSCA to deliver an EPR with key clinical benefits ahead of the delivery of the national strategic solution supported by CfH.Design and implementation of a programme to deliver the 18ww target, including a Trust wide programme delivery structure through to the supporting technologyCompletion and sign off by the Trust Board of the Interim Tactical Solution Business Case to invest £10m capital over three years to implement an EPR to ensure UHL meets it's business needs whilst waiting for the NPfIT strategic solutionDelivery of information toolkits and development of the datawarehouse to improve the timeliness and accessibility of an increasing number of datasets to support performance management, commissioning and business modellingImplementation of NPfIT solutions to meet nationally agreed targets including Choose and Book linked to a legacy PAS and ensuring system robustness both technical and operational

Responsible for the strategic & operational delivery of clinical and business systems and delivery of medical records services across University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. To lead the delivery of the Integrated Care Record Service as part of the NHS Plan for IT and to manage the IM&T Capital Programme of around £4m p.a. Key Responsibilities:Set the strategic direction for the development, integration, procurement and implementation of clinical and business applications for UHL and interfaces across the Leicestershire Health CommunitySet the strategic direction and operational delivery of Medical Records Service across UHL moving towards a 24/7 serviceDevelopment of Medical Records storage, retention, archiving, destruction policies and programmesKey Achievements:Development & implementation of the Interim IM&T Strategy for UHL with an emphasis of singularity of systems as a consequence of merging 3 Trusts with separate administrative and clinical support systemsProduced business case for the merger of the 3 PAS/HISS systems, transfer and re-negotiation of HISS contracts worth over £1.5m and implementation of the merge project within 18 months, including 11 interfaced departmental systems and order communications functionsProduced business case for the merger of 3 Radiology systems, negotiation of the contract worth over £160k and implementation of the merge project within 18 months, including upgrade & interface developments to maintain the links to the PACS system with a project value of £400kRestructure & integration of the Clinical Systems and Medical Records Service across UHLImplementation of a theatre system across 44 operating rooms of UHL Implementation of an A&E system at the LRI and an interface to a single PMI and HISS systemDevelopment of a Medical Records Strategy to enable successful achievement of CNST level 2 and the provision of services associated with the reconfiguration of services under the Pathways Project.