Executive Director and Board Member

• Jan 2022 - Present

Company Director Member of the BoardMember of the Executive Management Team and Senior Leadership TeamChair - Business Development and Marketing Board sub-groupMember - People Management Board sub-groupSponsor - Apira Women's Network

Director of Client Engagement

• Feb 2021 - Present

In addition to my role as delivery lead, business case SME, and project executive for many projects, I am also responsible for Apira’s strategic client engagement with national, regional and local clients, along with business development, partnership development and marketing.Current assignments include Apira lead for client projects at:1. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - EPR2. Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust - EPR3. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - EPR4. Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - Single Patient Record, Maternity & LIMS5. The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - EPR6. Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - EPRAlso providing Project Leadership and SME support at a number of other Trusts and national bodies including Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust - EPR Deployment, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - EPR, Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Trust - EPR, Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & East Cheshire NHS Trust - EPR, and NHS Digital - Citizen Health Tech Business Cases.Also lead for a number of national projects including recent assignments at NHSX and NHS Digital, and a number of delivery partnerships including our partnership with KPMG, and Apira representative on Hippo Digital Consortium Board for the Digital Capability for Health framework. Show less

Managing Consultant

• Mar 2019 - Feb 2021

Apira are a Crown Commercial Services & NHS Frameworks Approved Supplier and London based professional services company focused on helping healthcare providers design, procure, implement and make better use of digital systems and technology which provide benefit to patients and improve the efficiency and delivery of their local services. Apira focus on making sure healthcare providers buy the best solutions and deliver robust commercial contracts to govern execution, and help to make sure the planned benefits for patients and staff are realised by managing the change.As Director of Client Engagement and part of the Apira Senior Leadership team, my role is focused on our strategic advisory services, utilising my 15 years experience and knowledge delivering national and local digital systems and services to offer a broader range of insights to Apira’s healthcare client base, and helping them to benefit from the renewed focus on Digital.Focus areas:Electronic Patient Records Shared Care RecordsElectronic Document Management Healthcare Strategy Business Case Development Stakeholder Management Contract Management david.corbett@apira.co.ukwww.apira.co.uk077956 41287 Show less

Programme Director

• Jun 2016 - Mar 2019

Prior to Apira I worked for NHS Digital and led the successful rollout of free WiFi across the NHS.The national NHS WiFi programme is a £multi-million programme of work within the NHS Digital Transformation portfolio established to meet a ministerial commitment to provide free WiFi to patients and staff across the NHS which will enable patients to access digital health and care services and help NHS teams to work more efficiently, and to deliver better and safer care and improved outcomes.Led on the design of the programme scope, strategy, delivery structures and plans, governance, business cases, programme finances, funding models, technical standards, market engagement and business change. Built and led the NHS Digital and NHS England teams (incl. 12 direct reports) working with local NHS organisations and suppliers to deliver each stage of the programme covering over 7,500 GP surgeries and 200 NHS Trusts. This included providing local organisations with funding, guidance and support through their procurement and subsequence deployments. Through this work well over 90% of GP surgeries and the majority of NHS Trusts in England are now already providing access to free NHS WiFi, with a reach of over 50 million patients.As part of my leadership development, through 2018 I also led the delivery of the Summary Care Record (SCR) Programme, a programme delivering electronic healthcare records for over 50million patients across England. Achievements include the development of the SCR strategy and driving the uptake of ‘enhanced’ SCRs which have increased by 1m during my leadership. Show less

Programme Head

• Jun 2014 - Jun 2016

care.data was a programme of work on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) commissioned by the National Information Board and established to increase the range of data collected across NHS-funded services for purposes beyond direct care, and to provide a national picture of how healthcare is delivered. Led on the end-end delivery of datasets under the programme, starting with delivery of the pathfinder stage of the GP-HES (Hospital Episode Statistics) linked dataset, in addition to a range of other datasets. Built and led a team of 30+ direct and indirect reports delivering datasets, and led on the design of the delivery structures, governance arrangements, and design of the national rollout. As a result of this work, a number of new datasets were delivered into the NHS which supported NHS organisations to plan and commission the delivery of healthcare services, and to enable clinicians and researchers to conduct research into new medications and treatments. Supported the re-alignment and formal closure of the care.data programme following changes to the consent model proposed by the National Data Guardian. Show less

Programme Manager

• Apr 2013 - Jun 2014

The new Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) is a ground-breaking data, information and technology resource for the health and care system which plays a fundamental role in driving better care, better services and better outcomes for patients.Established as an Executive Non Departmental Public Body on 1 April 2013, the HSCIC is an important part of the launch of the new health and care system. The organisations has brought together over 2,000 experts in major ICT programme management, technology, standards, IG, data collection, statistics and analytics, and service management, to create a new and vibrant organisation as part of the new health and care system.As part of the changes my role as Programme Manager for the South Acute Programme within NHS Connecting for Health (DH Informatics Directorate), transferred into the HSCIC on 1 April 2013. Show less

Programme Manager

• Jan 2006 - Mar 2013

Joined NHS Connecting for Health (Department of Health Informatics Directorate - DHID) in January 2006. Worked across a number of directorates, programmes and projects including Technology Office, Service Implementation, PDS, N3 and NHS Number. Seconded to work as Project Manager on NHS Health Informatics Review in 2008. In December 2011 I was appointed Programme Manager for the South Acute Programme, a £200m+ programme of work supporting hospitals in the South of England to locally procure and deploy clinical systems across their hospitals. Established the delivery structures and governance and built and led a programme delivery team that worked with Governments departments, NHS England and suppliers to support NHS Trusts to develop and to secure HM Treasury approval of value for money business cases, and to plan, prepare and conduct their local procurements and subsequent implementations. 20 NHS Trusts participated in the programme via 5 collaborative procurements, with each completing procurement, and going on to implement systems which have brought improvements in clinical decision making, the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, and patient experience. Previously Informatics Lead for the DH QIPP National Urgent Care Clinical Dashboard project (March 2010-April 2012), leading the DH Informatics team supporting the project. By 31 March 2012 the project had supported the delivery of dashboards to 30 PCTs and pathfinder clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), covering over 1,000 GP practices and six million patients. Previously Implementation Manager and Programme Manager for the Pilot stage of the Clinical Dashboards Programme (a key recommendation of the NHS Next Stage Review led by Lord Darzi) working with local clinical, IM&T & Project Management teams within NHS Trusts across primary care, secondary care, mental health and ambulance. Show less

Group Communications Manager

• 2002 - Jan 2006