Experience

Healthy.io

• Israel
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Director Of Client Services

  • Mar 2022 - Present

• Director Of Operations

  • Jan 2020 - Present



UnitedHealth Group

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Director

  • Jun 2008 - Jan 2020

  Responsible for the management and development of the Optum Commissioning Directorate, providing guidance and expertise to all Optum commissioning, contracting and QIPP programmes nationally. The portfolio included: • Leading a five year, £4m FESC programme responsible for £131m of acute spend in 17 London Trusts on behalf of 18 CCGs. Line-management of 15 multi-disciplinary staff with responsibility for all commissioning arrangements including budget forecasting, QIPP delivery, annual commissioning strategies, demand models, contract negotiations and performance management, invoice validation and reconciliation and knowledge transfer. Embedded innovative best practice patient pathways in collaboration with Trusts whilst also delivering over £23m in contract efficiencies. The contract was renewed for a further three-five years in 2014. • Conception and implementation of the Optum five ‘best practice’ tenets to commissioning; including training and development of an experienced contracting team, challenging monitoring information to realise efficiencies, providing accurate forecasting that accounted for risk and seasonal variation, reporting granular information down to CCG and practice level on London activity and agreeing and health economy incentivised partnership. • Management of £200m acute and non-acute (mental health and community contracts) portfolio for a single CCG encompassing all host commissioner arrangements. • Delivering ‘quick win’ and pathway QIPP opportunities for NHS England, benchmarking and challenging price variation, practice based quality, activity and finance packs for CCGs and acute contracting solutions for host commissioners. • Feasibility studies across CCGs (inclusive of data reviews, reviews of best evidence, social marketing practice and stakeholder engagement strategies) into long term condition initiatives, single points of access for patients and professionals and urgent care centres. Show less



London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programme Manager

  • Dec 2002 - Jun 2008

  • Management and development of a public health Programme with a budget in excess of £11m per annum. • Line-management of nine project management staff with a combined portfolio of over 200 research projects. • Assessment and redesign of Programme strategy and policies in relation to Department of Health initiatives. • Forging collaborative links and relationships with individuals from organisations with an interest in SDO R&D in both the UK and abroad. • Implementation of a new communications strategy to enhance and promote SDO Programme impacts in the UK and internationally. • Conception, implementation and development of the electronic commissioning and appraisal system (www.ecas.org.uk). • Development and redesign of the SDO website (www.sdo.nihr.ac.uk) and standardised commissioning procedures. • Budget and resource monitoring, forecast and management. Show less



Defra

• Italy
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Higher Scientific Officer

  • Feb 2000 - Dec 2002

  Higher Scientific Officer, Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak; • Line-management of nine scientific staff providing advice to animal health experts. • Development of the national disease control database – now the standard outbreak control system. • Provision of written and verbal guidance to the State Veterinary Service, Defra and other Government departments. • Reported daily to Ministers, the Chief Veterinary Officer, the Press office, Defra veterinary managers and Office International des Épizooties on current FMD situation. Higher Scientific Officer, Veterinary Science Unit • Commissioned, managed and monitored a veterinary science research portfolio of £3.5m per annum. • Chaired project visits, research reviews and monitoring meetings involving other Government departments, agencies and external experts. • Assessed research proposal, annual and final project reports for scientific rigour and value for money and potential reinvestment. • Developed a financial planning database to produce accurate programme and project budget information. Show less