Dr Nick Manning-Cork Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Clinical leadership role at a centre of oncology excellence (ranked in top-5 globally), with an international reputation for pioneering research and leading-edge cancer treatments and technologies. Responsible for managing in- and out-patient care for a population of approximately 800 individuals with breast cancer, and approximately 500 individuals with gynaecological cancers, with investigator duties on 70 academic and industry-sponsored clinical trials of novel therapeutics.

London, England, United Kingdom

Awarded FRSA

Awarded FRSPH

London, England, United Kingdom

Senior clinical and quality control role managing Medical and Surgical Oncology inpatients across the HCA UK hospital network, ensuring safe delivery of novel therapeutics (frequently first-in-use in UK outside of research settings), and maintaining a network of Key Opinion Leaders in Oncology.

Leading regulatory inspection teams evaluating UK healthcare providers, assessing against quality standards and sharing best practice.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the integrated cancer campus (a commercial partnership between Cromwell Hospital and GenesisCare) at BUPA's flagship UK hospital, and developing the digital and genomics infrastructure enabling high-value oncology care.

Independent board member of the Quality Scrutiny Group – holding the UK Medical Regulator to account on its delivery of education and training quality – selected to represent 40,000 medical students and 60,000 postgraduate Doctors.

Editorial Board member, advising on journal strategy and innovation, while commissioning and reviewing submissions for a publication with >30,000 global readers.Following proposals published in 'Cork N, Devine CA. Educating clinician leaders: can the NHS benefit from the US MD/MBA experience? Clin Med (Lond) 2015;15(4):404-6', 80% of recommendations were adopted by the UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/nhs-providers-annual-conference-keynote-speech

National advisory appointment to the RCP in revising its definition of the role of the medical profession in modern society. Reported to the President, alongside representatives from the national arm’s-length bodies, judiciary, Parliament, and the Privy Council: final recommendations (published 2018) guide doctors in maintaining standards and public trust while refocusing national practices in the context of financial and operational healthcare pressures.https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/advancing-medical-professionalism

Honorary Lecturer in Healthcare Improvement at UCL Division of Surgery and Interventional Science. Led the design, implementation, operational management, and evaluation of a public-private partnership that sustained high-risk surgical oncology services for 10 NHS hospitals during London's first COVID-19 pandemic wave.

London-based Doctor, working across General Surgery, Care of the Elderly, Acute Medicine, Rheumatology, Cardiology, and Psychiatry (2017-2019).Appointed to the EKHUFT T3 Clinical Design Authority board – alongside the Executive Medical Director, Director of ICT, and UK Medical Director of our industry partner – responsible for planning and executing digital transformation at an organisation operating 5 hospital sites with £586.2m annual revenue.Single EKHUFT Doctor in postgraduate training funded to complete ‘Leading Improvements’ (2020 Delivery/NHS Improvement; Apr-May 2018) and ‘Value-Based Healthcare Delivery’ (Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School; Jan 2018) executive education programmes.Operational improvement responsibilities:• Led pilot of Surgical Emergency Admissions Unit (SEAU) at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital. Reduced average daily breaches of Emergency Department access target for surgical patients; 95.6% of those triaged to SEAU were reviewed within 4 hours, compared to 85.2% nationally (62.6% elsewhere within EKHUFT). 4 FTE Nurses were consequently recruited, establishing SEAU as a permanent facility.• Appointed to steering committee advising 2020 Delivery’s EKHUFT engagement. Over 2 months, achieved >1 day reduction in average length of inpatient stay across target medical wards.• Recruited to advise EKHUFT Board on integrating healthcare IT solutions with clinical workflows (realising productivity gains while managing risks); led evaluation and redesign of plans for implementation of ward-based electronic whiteboards across EKHUFT, and now steering development of electronic health records and inpatient e-prescribing.

Editorial Board member for a BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. international open access journal.

National appointment to advise and issue recommendations as the UK Department for Education implements the Higher Education and Research Act 2017.

Recruited to inform revision of the 2002 Subject Benchmark Statement for UK medical degrees, repositioning this to reflect academic, professional, statutory, and regula​tory expectations in 2016.

Statutory position at one of the largest UK hospital Trusts, appointed to support the organisation in confronting emergent challenges including regulator intervention (addressing quality and governance concerns), electronic health record implementation, and an approx. £100m recurrent deficit.Advised the Board on Trust priorities in strategic planning, steering regional system reconfiguration, and held Directors to account for assurance on progress against the transformation and cost improvement plans, delivering £33m savings in 2015/16 against a planned target of £26m. Following regulator re-inspection the Trust exited enforcement action.Oversaw replacement of the Chief Executive, External Auditor, and Chair, setting the latter’s terms and conditions.Led review to align Governor working with the full scope of the position as per legislation and regulator guidance: resulting recommendations were accepted by the Board and now define Trust governance practices.During tenure, Trust deficit was reduced to £77.3m, with Emergency Department access targets met in 90.2% of cases against 83.7% previously (representing 6,800 more patients seen) despite a 3% growth in attendances.https://www.nhsproviders.org/resource-library/case-studies/nick-cork

Selected to advise 50 ‘vanguard’ health and social care organisations in trialing new models of service provision: defined transformation objectives and plans that determined ~£329m spending between 2015 - 2018.Developed the measurement and evaluation strategy, identifying metrics to drive delivery while capturing intelligence to steer wider reform (the highest-rated NHS England output in National Audit Office’s 2018 vanguard report). Modelled hospital sector restructuring to support quality, productivity, and efficiency improvements, guiding Trusts in 13 new corporate ventures.Advised the NHS ‘Innovation Accelerator’ (17 new start-ups scaled products to 419 organisations, accessed by 3m patients in first 3 months, raising ~£20m capital), the NHS ‘Test Beds’ programme (51 innovations trialled across 7 Trusts, leveraging ~£24.5m in private and public investment) and delegations representing the Governments of Japan and the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India, on health system innovation, digital and technological trends, demographic and workforce requirements, and preventative healthcare.

Successfully pitched to the CEO and Directors to transform the legacy Student Members Group into an independent education provider with full financial and operational autonomy, leading a team of 10 to manage the transition.Delivered 40 training conferences, 6 academic prizes, 5 resource booklets, and committee growth from 38 to 82 university representatives. Ended Year 1 with a surplus of approx. £20,000, securing initiative as a going concern.Redesigned the undergraduate programme to disseminate emerging curricular innovations, better aligned with projected global health needs: including leadership, process improvement, entrepreneurialism, and policy skills.Lead author of recommendations published in ‘Cork N, et al. Working together for excellence in the NHS: student proposals. Lancet 2015;385(9971):851-2’, submitted to and cited in Sir Robert Francis QC’s enquiry into NHS workforce culture, following which our proposal for mandatory training in raising and managing patient safety concerns has been adopted as a regulated standard for health professionals’ curricula.

Co-founded a social enterprise established to advance medical students’ leadership development, advised by McKinsey & Company and the Judge Business School.

Tutor to high-achieving secondary school students aged 11 - 18.

Author on peer-review publications evaluating the pre-clinical and clinical evidence-base informing treatment for children and young adults with cancer, and auditing adverse events following administration of experimental therapies.Led collection of quality assurance and outcomes data for 400 UK patients participating in European clinical trials – presented to the international meeting of the supervising research collaborative – which refocused subsequent trial direction and development. Assisted in obtaining authorisation for, and conducting, 2 early-phase UK trials.Organiser of charity and research fundraising events (yielding approx. £61,500), and training for European cancer doctors.

Clinical PA to Professor Francesco Muntoni – Consultant Paediatric Neurologist and Director of the Dubowitz Neuromuscular Centre – and Secretary to the Neuromuscular Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Addenbrooke'S Hospital

Mb Bchir, Clinical Medicine (Trinity College)

Appointed Associate Clinical Supervisor, training students in examination theory and technique. Adviser to: • Curriculum Development.

Certificate In Health Economics And Policy

Value Based Health Care Delivery Intensive Seminar

Competitive entry, fully funded, 40-hour executive education - involving 12 case studies, guest protagonists, and concept lectures taught.

Bsc, Neuroscience

Pre-Clinical Medicine with Pre-Medical Year Science Editor 2011-2012: Epigram - The University of Bristol's Independent Newspaper

Ba, Drama

Director or performer for 20 theatre and film productions: 2 transfers to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London; performance licensing.

Education record

Drama Prize (2004)