Tim Read Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Freelance independent consultant providing specialist advice, consultancy and content development across health, social care, education and life sciences. Focus areas include: Strategic planning, market entry, risk identification, and due diligence, with specialist expertise covering policy, regulation, and reimbursementPlease contact me on timreadconsultancy@gmail.com if you would like further information or would like a conversation about a potential engagementCurrent engagements include:- Conference Director, Specialist Care (March 2023)- Report Author, LaingBuisson Children Services Market Report (November 2022)- Report Author, LaingBuisson Private Mental Health Hospitals Market Report (to be published)- Advisory Board Member, Revolutionising Adolescent Mental Health Services

Monthly expert columnist for Healthcare Markets, the leading trade magazine for the healthcare industry. Articles offer op-ed coverage of key regulatory and policy developments affecting the healthcare sector with a focus on the impact for investors and operators.Occasional feature writer for Healthcare Markets, and sister publication, Care Market.

London, England, United Kingdom

Leadership position within health, social care, education and life sciences transatlantic consultancy firm. Accountable for all project and marketing content for UK, Europe and selected ROW, delivery of business growth & development, and people management. Primary project coverage of UK, Pan-European and EU, and Australia. Secondary project coverage includes ROW territories of China, India and BrazilKey responsibilities and achievements include: • Subject Matter Expertise in regulation, reimbursement and policy covering health, social care, pharmaceuticals and life science for UK & Europe• Accountable for end-to-end delivery of 80+ M&A due diligence, market entry & strategic consultancy engagements • Client relationship management covering global private equity, institutional investors, and corporate clients• Leads project delivery function; growing team from 2 FTE to 8 FTE; responsible for recruitment, line management, building a team culture and vision for UK, creating an internship programme and a network of multi-lingual external SMEs• Business growth from c.8 engagements (2017) to c.22 engagements (2022), achieved new client growth and additional client retention annually. Interim business development director for 15 months whilst post vacant• Oversaw annual marketing campaign and lead content creation of c.20 thought leadership publications, 2 sector reports, 5-10 speaking engagements, and a monthly column in an external publication• Routine advice on key issues covering policy, regulation, reimbursement and market analysis• Responsible for ongoing business improvement and developing new business specialisms• Finalists of Health Investor Consultants of the Year, and LaingBuisson Management Consultants of the Year across multiple years

London, United Kingdom

CQC Lead for new models of care and devolution • Strategic lead for developing CQC's regulatory response to aspects of the new models of care programme, and place-based models of care (including health devolution, and ACOs)• Developing a cross-organisational change management plan based on implications of new models of care on regulation• Ownership of agreed content for CQC's next phase of regulation consultations• Oversight of CQC's response to local health and social care devolution proposals. CQC Strategy 2016 - 2021• Leading development of key strategic theme for organisational strategy (Priority: A Single Shared View of Quality), including oversight of end-to-end process for content sign-off and stakeholder engagement• Strategic lead for internal and external consultation events through strategy development process• Project manager of cross-organisational team developing content for internal and external processesCQC State of Care Annual Report• Research and development of key themes in CQC’s annual State of Care publication.• Drafting content for final publication• Project management of internal working group

London, United Kingdom

Ensure overall delivery of the national thematic programme on mental health crisis care• Oversight of the project delivery, identifying, resolving and escalating risk to the project lead where appropriate • Oversight of end-to-end process for producing national report on mental health crisis care and ensuring accountability for delivery within agreed timescales. This includes writing a national report for mental health crisis care.• Leading on capturing comments/feedback, including external stakeholders and ensuring that user voice is heard; supporting final draft report through internal governance routes and delivery of a tailored publication and communication strategy for multiple audiences•Support development of all aspects of Local Area Inspections, including coordinating pilot activity and revising inspection toolkit following evaluation and comment • Coordination and relation-management of external advisory group, and wider stakeholders as requiredLead on national call for evidence capturing people’s experience of a mental health crisisProvide research and analysis of the implications of legislation, government and other policy developments for CQC in relation to mental health and mental health crisis care. Project Managing the delivery of the CQC statutory annual report on the use of the Mental Capacity Act Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (2012/13)Contribute to development of the regulatory model for monitoring and inspecting mental health services, and support for the wider mental health transformation programme

London, United Kingdom

• Public affairs lead for mental health, and for local government. • Public affairs advice for core strategic projects (including CQC's response to the Francis Report). • Oversight and management of of external expert advisory groups on strategically relevant policy areas• Event development and management • Supporting senior stakeholder engagement; providing briefings, presentations, speaking notes, biographies

Green Templeton College

Visiting knowledge exchange fellowship at the Oxford Health Experiences Institute (Green Templeton College, University of Oxford). Focused on how user experience can be used to drive improvements in care quality, and how knowledge exchange activities can be used to broaden understanding between academia, public policy and professionals

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Pgdip, Local Government Management

Dissertation subject: Transformation in Waltham Forest: Assessing the appropriateness of the Kotter model within the context of local.

2:1, Politics And Philosophy