Hugo Minney - Senior Consultant

Hugo20070810.pngDr Hugo Minney gained his PhD in protein chemistry in 1990, and has worked in Agriculture, Academia, Information Technology, Sales and Business Consulting, and Service Improvement. Prior to joining the NHS in 2004, he was with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Manpower Software (developing Workforce Planning and Team Optimisation software for NHS).
With NHS (the largest employer in Europe with around 1.3million staff) Hugo developed a benefits realisation and RoI methodology which is suitable for services for public good (commercial, public sector and charitable) and demonstrated value for money and return on investment achieved through new, enhanced and extended roles such as the Emergency Care Practitioner. Following requests to develop similar business case for investment for other projects, Hugo

prepares and delivers courses in Evidence Based Business Cases, Gaining Clinical Engagement for Change, Facilitation & Communication, and Value Stream Design
supports pilot and demonstrator sites to develop evidence-based whole system change
researches the reasons for success or failure of major system change early on in the project so that the understanding can be used to redirect the project or the resources
develops benefits frameworks for whole health and care economy culture and service development

He also advises nationally on the impact of new policy in Urgent Care and is establishing a second Social Enterprise (the first is already running successfully in London) delivering unscheduled care;
Hugo is fully PRINCE2 accredited (both 2005 and 2009 - benefits version) and has expertise in service redesign, business case development (including outside of IT projects) and benefits planning/ realisation/ reporting.
My cv can be obtained on request via the email contact at the bottom of the page.

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