Our team.

“We work for a cause not a company“

Directors.

Ashish has both clinical and commercial backgrounds, nationally and internationally. He brings valuable insight into ‘what works’ through his work on whole-system transformation across more than 20 health and care economies. Ash offers niche experti…

Ashish has both clinical and commercial backgrounds, nationally and internationally, and across primary, urgent and acute sectors. Ash brings valuable insight into ‘what works’ through his work on whole-system transformation across more than 50 health and care economies.

Ash offers niche expertise in designing achievable yet transformative models of care, application of clinical data interrogation and delivering clinically/professionally led change. He has an increasing role in digital transformation.

Energetic and engaging, Ash feels proud of the way he catalyses change, working with people, spotting change agents and galvanising involvement at every level of healthcare systems.

Dr Ashish Dwivedi

Andrew is a highly experienced commercial healthcare executive with Board level experience and commercial roles across a wide range of health and social care businesses, from start-ups to listed companies.

Andrew brings valuable expertise and experience to the commercial aspects of Primary Care, including advising on business strategy, financial modelling, commercial compliance, business and organisational  models and incorporation.

Andrew is well versed on the financial, workforce and commercial planning of PCNs.

His breadth of business experience and commercial acumen ensures our projects bring value to clients and service users.

Andrew Russell

Riaz is dual-trained as a management consultant and GP, specialising in organisational development, system working and strategy. He is passionate about the role of Primary Care in the NHS and the value it brings to communities, provider collaboratives and healthcare systems.

Riaz’s work spans provider organisations in primary care, place-based partnerships and integrated care systems.

Over the last 5 years Riaz and his team have worked across 150 practices, 50+ CCGs/Places and 15+ ICSs. He retains a weekly clinical commitment and is Non-Executive Chair of SELDOC Ltd, London’s largest not-for-profit unscheduled care provider.

Riaz’s work is often covered in professional and national media.

Dr Riaz Jetha

Consultants.

Brian Jopling is a highly experienced and diverse business leader, management consultant and director of transformation programs with over 25 years’ experience supporting large commercial organisations to improve capability and performance. Brian has extensive experience in setting strategy, designing and leading change and improving business and financial results. This experience has been gained through leading over 20 successful large-scale transformation initiatives for clients across all main sectors, the largest involving 10,000 employees, 12 million customers and multiple change teams. Brian has also held MD or Director-level roles in 3 companies.

Brian has brought this experience to NHS Trusts, CCG’s and Local Authorities, helping to improve performance, quality and the patient experience in a climate of static or reducing budgets. Brian uses his balanced expertise across people, process, technology and culture to devise and implement innovative transformations. This work has delivered tangible improvements in quality, efficiency, productivity and patient and staff satisfaction for less cost. In terms of NHS service areas, Brian’s experience includes community, mental health, learning disability, continuing healthcare, urgent and primary care services.

Brian is comfortable working from Board level to the front line. Using a hands-on and collaborative approach Brian successfully inspires and engages people to own and drive change. Brian also brings proven methodologies and a strong track record in service re-design, OD and leadership development, training, stakeholder engagement and culture change.

Brian speaks regularly at industry conferences in the UK and Europe and has written for several business publications. Brian is a judge for the UK Customer Experience Awards.

Brian Jopling

Associate Director

Martin is a practice management expert. He is a part-time Practice Management Special Advisor to the CQC. Martin has over 30 years of experience working in primary care including practice management, practice development and leading working at scale initiatives. Martin is able to quickly understand complex practice management issues and clearly articulate practical solutions.

Martin Norton

Practice Management and CQC

Radha harnesses her clinical and commissioning background to facilitate whole system changes in the wider health and care economy. This includes designing models of care with the population at the forefront of decision making and embedding the practicalities of daily clinical practice in pathway redesign. She is an expert at presentation of key information in a clear and concise manner, in order to influence change at senior executive level, with customised models of care design being a personal specialty. Radha has successfully led on the delivery of programmes aimed at developing capacity, capabilities, infrastructure (including digital and estates) and resilience across the integrated care landscape for them to operate collaboratively and at scale within the context of an integrated care system, whilst maintaining an outcome focus, ensuring change is measurable and sustainable.

Radha Pankhania

Transformation & Change Management

Consultants.

Jenny has extensive management experience across health and social care as a registered manager, service director and management consultant. She is also a registered nurse. She has undertaken service development and quality improvement projects within NHS and voluntary services and has a Masters in Business Administration (public services management). As part of a portfolio career Jenny has worked as a bank inspector for the Care Quality Commission, leading inspections of services including GP practices, independent health providers, NHS services and adult social care. Most recently Jenny has worked with GP practices on a freelance basis, providing support for quality improvement and advising on how to improve regulatory compliance. In addition, Jenny is a qualified coach, providing leadership and team coaching and development support within the health and social care sector.

 

Jenny Harper

Quality Improvement & CQC

Anushka is passionate about community development and supporting closer working between partners in our healthcare economy. She has leadership and management experience ranging from representing GPs at the BMA and LMC, and leadership roles at a GP Federation. Anushka also has experience in digital health, from education to service provision in both the NHS and independent sectors. She has an MSc in Public Health.

Dr Anushka Mehrotra

Clinical Engagement I Digital Health I Policy

Janet is an experienced and effective senior leader with significant experience in NHS management, strategy, board governance, team/organisational development and service improvement.

 She has a track record of delivering change in complex multi agency systems of health and care in organisations and across the system

 Janet has served as CEO and Accountable Officer over a period of 18 years in six NHS organisations. In 2013 she was the CEO of the five Lancashire Primary Care Trusts and led the establishment of Clinical Commissioning Groups under the 2013 NHS reforms.

 Janet now works independently taking on roles as Programme Director, Director of Strategy and Primary Care, Turnaround Director,  Chief Officer and organisational development 

 She has particular experience in developing new organisations, and working across whole partnerships. A consistent theme in her work has been bringing teams together and building a strong sense of shared purpose whilst delivering against key requirements.

 Janet is also an experienced coach and an accredited mediator. She is currently supporting the development of an Integrated Care Partnership.

Janet Soo-Chung

Strategic Leadership & Change Management

Amanda is an experienced GP Practice Manager with a background in bids and tenders and management in healthcare in both the NHS and private healthcare. Specialising in compliance and long term solutions including working at scale, Amanda has a sound knowledge of the UK healthcare system and understands the culture and dynamics of primary care. A graduate of the NHS Improvement Leader programme, trained coach and tutor on the Chartered Management Institute General Practice Management Programme, Amanda has also successfully managed quality improvement projects using the Model for Improvement and is passionate about resilience in primary care.



Amanda Meehan

Primary care, leadership & improvement

Alison is a qualified procurement and business professional, and has worked in the health and social care sector for 13 years. She has supported providers in co-producing, procuring, and designing well thought out health and care services. Keen on human-centred design principles, Alison has worked with Health Education for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. More recently she programme managed a successful ICP programme focussed on preventative integrated health and care in Croydon.


Alison Waters

Social prescribing & community development

Rehan is an experienced delivery focused consultant with a focus on integrated care. He is particularly skilled in partnership working, with a proven track record in health and care systems improvements and redesign. Specialised skills include: Analytics and modelling, investment appraisal, strategic planning and strategy development, complex programme management, transformation and integration. 

Rehan Qureshi

Analytics and Modelling

Rachel is a GP, keynote speaker, coach and host of You Are Not A Frog podcast, helping doctors and professionals who feel overwhelmed and exhausted beat stress and thrive. Rachel has created a toolkit to help busy professionals and their teams to beat stress and thrive at work through increasing their wellbeing, helping them take control of their time and prioritise their work and have better conversations so that they can feel calm, in control and thrive in their workplace. Rachel also hosts a podcast and is also Director of Leadership Courses for Red Whale (GP Update Ltd), a national Primary Care training organisation. She co-authored and delivers their flagship Leadership course, Lead. Manage. Thrive! for GPs, and those working in primary care and travels around the country delivering these courses to diverse groups of Primary Care Professionals.



Dr Rachel Morris

Clinical and professional development

Natasha is a leadership trainer and executive coach with a background in broadcast journalism at the BBC. She is Visiting Lecturer at Cass Business School where she teaches personal development on the Executive Masters in Medical Leadership. Natasha has worked in a number of healthcare organisations helping experts to develop as leaders. Natasha uses a coaching approach in her work with leaders with an emphasis on self-reflection, collaboration and applied project-based learning. She is a trained mediator and facilitator and is qualified as an NLP Master Practitioner. She is a member of the Association for Coaching.


Natasha Maw

Personal development and coaching


Phil is the former Minister of State for Care Services and visiting professor at the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College, London. Phil works with health and social care organisations to help them navigate the changing landscape of the health and care landscape; and to develop excellent and sustainable care services for older people. In his role at Imperial, Phil supports Health Policy Masters’ students with their dissertations and lectures on the politics of health policymaking. He chaired the Imperial College report ‘Creating Sustainable Health and Care Systems in Ageing Societies’.




Phil Hope

Integrated care systems

Amanda has worked as a psychologist, for over 20 years, in challenging and demanding environments.

She brings a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience in working with teams and individuals, to improving performance and overall well-being.

Amanda works collaboratively with clients, has an ability to distil clarity from complex situations, and to find creative solutions. She is encouraging and motivational whilst also being empathic in her approach.

Dr Amanda Clark

Leadership Coaching

Farnaaz is an experienced Medical Director, DISC certified coach and effective facilitator with extensive experience in working across organisational boundaries to empower individuals. She understands system’s challenges, is passionate about building relationships, transforming teams, and keeping people focused, motivated and moving.

A GP by background, Farnaaz has over 20 years of experience working in both hospital and primary care settings. Her clinical acumen, leadership style and solution focused approach has strengthened clinical teams across health and care partnerships and established placed based clinical collaboratives built on mutual trust and respect. As a senior clinical leader, she has led numerous high performing teams, encouraging them to think creatively and deliver new models of care that improve patients’ experience and health outcomes.

Alongside her role as Medical Director, Farnaaz mentors clinicians, creating safe reflective spaces for them to think differently, recognise their strengths and bring about meaningful change to their personal and professional lives. By using DISC assessments, she helps them improve their understanding of themselves and how they influence and impact other members of the team.

Farnaaz believes her clients are resourceful. She understands that coaching is an invaluable space that gives them more insight into how they make tough decisions, deal with negative feedback, improve relationships and gain more influence. Her coaching style incorporates use of the GROW model and her facilitated sessions are a balance of gentle humour, constructive challenge, grounding mindfulness and interactive discussion that enhance individual strengths and enable purposeful engagement. Gandhi’s quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” is one she aspires to achieve herself, with her teams and with her clients.

She has adopted an innovative approach to resilience by developing a multi award-winning programme that has seen individuals improve their well-being, feel more confident and fulfilled in their job roles. This saw her feature on the Queen’s birthday honours list in 2018 and receive a British Citizens Award for healthcare at the House of Lords the year before.

As part of her leadership development work, she completes an ICF accredited Personal Performance Diploma in 2022.

Dr Farnaaz Sharief MBE

Leadership Training & Wellbeing


Amanda is an Associate Professor in Management at Cass Business School. Her research looks at the relationship between leadership, management and organisational performance; her work shows that leaders who have a deep understanding of the core business are associated with better organisational performance, higher employee job satisfaction and lower intensions to quit. Amanda teaches leadership on various MSc courses and also does leadership development training in healthcare organisations. She publishes in academic journals and practitioner publications, and is often featured in the global media.





Dr Amanda Goodhall PhD

Leadership Development


A results-driven, forward-thinking and highly successful public sector Executive, with over 20 years' diverse experience in the NHS, Local Authorities, the Third Sector and Civil Service in commissioning, operational delivery, strategy, policy, business development, change management, quality improvement, informatics and performance management.



Glen Monks

Mental Health Transformation

Barbara has worked in NHS service and organisational development since 1992. She is an experienced senior manager specialising in Mental Health Service Transformation and Redesign. With a proven track record of developing co-produced community-based services to improve quality, effectiveness and efficiency, increase value for money and reduce reliance on secondary care services. engaging stakeholders and working in partnership to deliver sustainable improvements.Barbara’s skill set includes, service transformation and redesign, whole system care development, service pathway reviews, service evaluation, training and programme/project management (PRINCE 2 qualified).

Barbara has worked in NHS service and organisational development since 1992. She is an experienced senior manager specialising in Mental Health Service Transformation and Redesign. With a proven track record of developing co-produced community-based services to improve quality, effectiveness and efficiency, increase value for money and reduce reliance on secondary care services. engaging stakeholders and working in partnership to deliver sustainable improvements.

Barbara’s skill set includes, service transformation and redesign, whole system care development, service pathway reviews, service evaluation, training and programme/project management (PRINCE 2 qualified).


Barbara Edwards

System Transformation & Redesign

Peter has in-depth knowledge and expertise in private residential, heritage and healthcare projects. He provides a closely supportive and professional service across all aspects of property development and management. Within healthcare, Peter has extensive experience in advising GP Practices on a wide range of property issues including project management of building works, lease negotiation, lease renewal, service charges as well as the production of business cases and the application for, and delivery of, Improvement Grants.

Specialised skills include: tenant monitoring surveyor; facilities management consultancy advice; development of management systems and marketing tools; procurement and risk management; relocation management; estates strategy preparation; and provision of quality assurance advice to professional practices.


Peter Fox

Estates and Infrastructure

Dr Peadar O’Mórdha FRCP FRCGP SFFMLM, is a former Partner in General Medical (Primary Care) Practice, interim secondary-care Medical Director, Healthcare Commission Registered Manager, and BMA Division Chairman. He has a wealth of knowledge with 29 years’ experience as a medical practitioner, and a leading healthcare consultant, in particular in policy, payor, provider and supplier sectors. He has been a leader in improving healthcare from strategic review of regional hospitals and healthcare system transformation, to evaluating new consulting service ideas globally. Peadar is also a Board member, Charity Trustee and Director of a Charitable Company, and he has been on the European Commission database of Experts in Health, which supports EXPH/ Commission work on effective ways of investing in health.

Dr Peadar O’Mórdha

Clinical Healthcare Consultant

Anushree is a highly adaptable and enthusiastic doctor with over 5 years of experience working within the NHS and just under 2.5 years of experience working in digital health.

She is an extremely motivated individual and thrives working in a challenging fast-paced environment.

Anushree also enjoys collaborating with global multi-disciplinary teams and possesses strong communication skills.

Dr Anushree Jagadambe

Consultant - Digital Health

Nina is a business manager with a strong focus on quality, boasting over 15 years of experience in management consultancies. Her expertise lies in business operations, where she has a proven track record of driving operational excellence and optimising business processes for success. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams, Nina effectively achieves organisational goals and enhances overall efficiency

In her role, Nina is responsible for onboarding new consultants and serves as a line manager to other team members. She is responsible for managing internal and external audits and upholding ISO certifications in ISO 9001, 14001, and 45001. Beyond these responsibilities, Nina is well-versed in proposal/tender management and public sector frameworks, as well as website management and project support, showcasing a diverse skill set contributing to the overall success of the business.

Nina's proficiency extends to proofreading, where she plays a vital role in maintaining quality control over key documents. With a central repository of confidential documents, Nina also ensures the utmost integrity and security in her responsibilities.

Nina Ram

Business Manager


Susan has over 20 years’ experience as a PA/secretary in London, primarily in the Private Equity sector, as well as some time at her local Clinical Commissioning Group. She has a wealth of skills, high level of accuracy, attention to detail, discretion and organisational competence, that ensures admin will be taken care of with the minimum of fuss, but to the highest standard.


Susan Wright

Executive Assistant

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