Management Consultancy
Our consultancy team all have many years’ experience of
working with the NHS and local authorities, public sector,
government bodies and not-for-profit organisations. Below are
brief pen-portraits of the senior Portico consultants. Our
consultancy model is based on employed staff – ensuring
maintenance of the highest quality and shared knowledge within
the consultancy team. We occasionally work with carefully
chosen associates who can complement our in-house skills on
specific assignments.
Matthew Robins
Matthew specialises in strategic studies, typically working
at senior levels in a multi-agency context. This includes
information strategy development, options appraisal,
organisational reviews, and process review and improvement. Much
of his recent work has been jointly commissioned to support
service integration and information sharing between health and
social care. He also has considerable experience of developing
IM&T services including establishing large scale Health
Informatics Services.
Jan Hoogewerf
Jan’s consultancy work spans all health and social care
settings, and she specialises in working with multi-agency
groups and projects on information sharing agendas. Jan has a
comprehensive understanding of emerging policy and initiatives
at a national level as a result of her work in this area. She
also works on change and benefits management associated with the
implementation of IT systems to ensure that they are exploited
to the full to deliver improvements in healthcare delivery.
Robert Gale
Robert has over 15 years of consultancy experience,
predominantly in the public sector, not-for-profit organisations
and for the NHS and department of health. His experience spans
strategy development, programme management, systems development
and deployment, business case development and procurement.
Robert heads up Portico's technical practice. His specific
expertise covers systems and integration architectures,
networking, data warehousing and management reporting, and
service management and delivery.
Charlotte Whaler
Charlotte has extensive experience in management of
large-scale projects covering all aspects of the systems
procurement and implementation process. This includes business
case preparation, requirements definition, benefits and
procurement management, system evaluation, contract negotiation
and implementation planning and management.
Technical Consultants
Members of our technical services team provide technical
consultancy and support services, including the development and
deployment of specialist solutions. All staff have a
relevant degree and contribute specialist technical and business
sector experience as well as a strong grounding in general
technical skills and customer support.
Care Equation
Portico also works together with
Care Equation, a
consultancy specialising in social care. This partnership
enables us to provide a uniquely effective service on complex
multi-agency projects. Joint Portico and Care Equation teams
have carried out assignments for the Department of Health and
the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care.
Click here to open the Care Equation web site.
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