I work across clinical leadership, digital education and healthcare strategy — helping organisations turn ideas into working, sustainable projects. Below is a track record spanning NHS service redesign, national digital education infrastructure, startup strategy and applied research. If you have a live project that needs support, or an idea that needs a route to delivery, get in touch.
I have experience in
- Education/Research Network Development
- Organisational Development
- Policy & Strategy Development
- Negotiation and Stakeholder Management
- Web Design, Database Design
- Information Governance
- Patient Safety & Quality Improvement
2025 – 2026 – Clinical Director for Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery & Vascular Surgery @ Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
From March 2025 to October 2026 (20 months) A facilitatory role in which I manage and advance the surgical services within the organisational framework whilst developing innovative ways of providing the best surgical care. Concluding in October 2026 following a trust-wide restructure of clinical leadership.
The department comprises 24 orthopaedic consultants, 4 associate specialists, 16 registrars and 20+ junior doctors, running 16 elective theatre days a week at the Alexandra Hospital and 15 all-day trauma lists a week at Worcestershire Royal. The vascular team includes 9 consultants with associate specialists, registrars, specialist nurses and scientists and junior doctors.
Since taking on the role I’ve led on:
- Creation of a new ambulatory hand trauma service
- Implementation of a Virtual Fracture Clinic across the Trust
- Rota alignment across the organisation
- Implementation of subspecialty MDT governance
- Development of a process for evaluating and introducing new devices and techniques
- Correction of historical and legacy job planning issues
- Digital strategy development and recruitment to a new digital lead role
- A streamlined hot hand clinic pathway with digital support
- Ongoing development of a trauma dashboard
- Recruitment of two new substantive consultants (foot & ankle, knee) and two locum arthroplasty surgeons to lead the neck-of-femur fracture service
Data-driven changes to the elective pathway have reduced average length of stay from 3.2 to 2.8 days (median 3 to 2 days), and increased joint replacement productivity from 20% to 40% of elective lists within a single tax year.
2022 – Current – Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon @ Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
2021 – 2026 – Lead for Simulation, British Orthopaedic Association
From January 2021 to December 2026 I held national committee role supporting my specialty professional association — which represents over 5,000 members spanning consultants, post-CCT fellows, trainees and medical students — with the development of education and careers courses and strategies utilising digital and simulation-based modalities. I served two consecutive terms (January 2021 – December 2023, then reappointed for a second term to December 2026) — the maximum permitted under BOA committee rules.
The Education and Careers Committee meets quarterly and oversees a broad portfolio spanning the full career pipeline: national courses (including the New Consultant Course, OrthoUpdate, and Later Years Consultant Course), fellowships (travelling, post-CCT and the Fellowship Leadership Programme), the UKITE national trainee assessment platform, and the education programme at BOA Congress. My own remit within this has focused on simulation and digital delivery — including the national teaching curriculum delivered through CST Hub UK, with sessions recorded and hosted on the Postgraduate Virtual Learning Environment I lead separately — bringing the same infrastructure-first thinking I apply regionally to a UK-wide audience.
2020 – Current – HEE Head of Virtual Learning
Within 6 weeks of the lockdown in March 2020, I had built a team of dedicated trainees to implement a comprehensive virtual environment for all surgical trainees in the West Midlands. We have now expanded the platform beyond surgery and are engaging multiple specialties in both West and East Midlands. We are currently in the process of consolidating teaching methods and routines from all surgical programmes and piloting numerous strategies for optimal delivery. In addition we are building solid governance protocols for scalability and stable succession.
As of September 2021, the digital strategy for the whole West Midlands has been added to my portfolio and includes broad regional engagement and also national engagement with the Technology Enhanced Learning team and the XR Hubs team.
2019 – 2021 – HEE Secondment – HEWM TPD for CST Teaching
A 3 year initial secondment with responsibility mainly for developing and delivering a teaching programme for 120 Core Surgical Trainees across the West Midlands. In addition to that I have utilised my experience to drive forward a development strategy with the rest of the WM Surgical TPD team towards faculty and in-house course development, policy and protocol development, web optimisation and process refinement. This role came to an end in October 2021 due to increase in responsibility with the regional digital strategy.
2019 – 2022 – Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon @ SaTH
In addition to providing a general trauma service and a specialist arthroplasty service I’ve focused on projects geared towards patient safety, quality improvement and efficiency.
I’ve consolidated on my experience and training to deliver the following strategic objectives:
- Development of a custom & sustainable Multidisciplinary Team Meeting model for T&O
- Virtual Fracture Clinic
- Implementation & Completion of Phase I Pilot (Jan 2020) — Assessing viability of ED → Trauma service pathway whilst ensuring complete patient safety and high level of collaboration
- Implementation of Phase II Pilot (Feb 2020) — Capacity assessment and service development.
- Implementation of the VFC formally (August 2020) with a 60% reduction in fracture clinic patients.
- IT Network solutions for what are currently paper-based critical tasks.
2017 – 2022 – Healthtech Startup
******** is a healthcare startup bringing DNA testing to the market in a safe, effective and clinically reliable way. From an initial start-up request of £100,000 the company secured £430,000 in investment, and rapidly expanded with strong links in the USA. A second funding campaign went over the £300,000, and the most recent third funding target of £50,000 resulted in more than £500,000 raised.
I advised on policy and strategy development, before developing the first version of protocols, service manual and recruitment. Following the expansion I took a Non-Executive Director role guiding the company during its initial and ongoing expansion as well as facilitating further strategy development.
The COVID pandemic saw ******** working at the front line providing logistical support and COVID-19 tests to the NHS and other institutions.
2017 – 2018 – Birmingham Orthopaedic Network (BON)
I conceived, developed and implemented the strategy that led to the launch of the BON. It is a web-based platform designed to promote collegiality and collaboration in education and research.
The project was shortlisted for a Health Services Journal Award 2019 in the Training and Development Initiative category and went on to be a finalist.
I have experience in broad local, regional and national stakeholder engagement, negotiation, organisational and information governance, web development, social media engagement and collaboration strategies.
2009 – 2013 – PhD Medicine – Protein Damage Markers in Joint Disease
A lab-based study assessing biomarkers to help (a) understand joint disease and (b) identify diagnostic markers for clinical application.
We secured a patent during this project for a new biomarker but also developed vital experience in the basics of machine learning algorithms.