David Mills

Experience

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  Portsmouth NHS Trust

  Jul 1995 - Nov 2008

  Clinical Engineering Workshop Manager

  Responsible for managing the clinical engineering projects and programme of activity within a busy acute hospital trust to include:-- Medical devices standardisation and replacement programmes- 3 Hospitals become one (PFI) medical devices move- Setup Satellite EBME service at St. Richard's Hospital, Chichester - value £540k. Was awarded Chairman's award for excellence.Day to day management activities involved with managing the service centre for all medical devices in a busy acute hospital including staff appraisals, training and supplier management.Responsible for all risk management assessments and medical devices incident investigations including feedback to internal risk team and MHRA where applicable.Liaised with the MHRA over safety action bulletins. Show less

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  Nursing Directorate

  Nov 2008 - Apr 2010

  Project Manager

  Project Manager for the Electronic Rostering System for Nursing staff within PHT.Recruited and line managed project trainer and system administrator.Liaise with staff across all disciplines from senior management, Finance, IT, information governance and external service provider ensuring adequate representation of all key stakeholders.Responsible for setting up the infrastructure, governance, training programme and entire project planning from start to finish of the system across the nursing division.Identification of risks associated with the rollout of the project.Planning of roadshows, setting up of internal user groups and founder of the 1st UK Regional user group for electronic rostering (RUGER).Esculation of project issues, dealing with supplier - holding them to account for failure to provide key deliverables. Working to very tight deadlines under financial pressure to deliver whilst balancing Quality, cost and time.Engagement of all key stakeholder through a combination of marketing across multiple disciplines and pursausive championing. Show less

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  Central South Coast Cancer Network

  Apr 2010 - Jul 2012

  Clinical Groups Programme lead

  Managed a portfolio/programme of 23 clinical groups working towards IOG compliance for peer review and the purpose of improving cancer services across the South Coast.Involves working with commissioners, Clinicians, Senior managers, National Cancer Action Team (NCAT), public representatives and Trust leads/cancer managers to progress various work streams, audits, research and clinical trials activity, progression towards providing IOG compliant services and improving collation of cancer data and submissions to national data registries.Use of project management skills, pursuasive techniques and perseverance to manage group chairs without direct line management responsibility Show less

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  NHS Hampshire

  May 2012 - Jan 2013

  Specialist Commissioning Manager for services into London

  My current assignment with NHS Hampshire as specialist commissioning manager commenced in May 2012.I am currently working with 3 main providers of specialist services in London. UCLH, Moorfields and Royal Free.My role involves regular travel to London liasing with contract managers for Host Trusts as well as provider trusts representing the local PCTs within the South Central Region.Commissioning services and managing current contracts are a daily part of the role including:-- Data Analysis of patient data to inform decision making- Challenging London service providers on aspects of value for money, quality and activity.- Working with Providers, Host Trusts, PCTs and United Health to improve patient services through supporting clinical audits, pathway redesign and QIPP programmes. Show less

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  London Specialised Commissioning Group

  Jan 2013 - May 2013

  South of England CDF/IFR Lead

  Working with UK area leads to setup the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) and the Individual Funding Requests service for the South of England - go live date 1st April.Procurement of database (to meet the national specification) to support both the CDF and IFR functions with reporting facilities and management of admin processes.Work with UK leads to agree Standard Operating procedures for CDF and IFR processes along with working towards national alignment.Setup of panels to review applications, team development and support links all from scratch. Development of links with neighbouring Area teams to ensure clear understanding of new processes from 1st April 2013.Service launched successfully on 1st April with no delay to any patient's treatments. Project managed delivery and transfer of all current CDF and IFR functions from across the South Coast of England. Show less

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  Wessex Area Team - NHS England

  May 2013 - now

  Operations and Delivery Manager

  Success of our CCGs depends on managing delivery of a range of commissioning functions. As part of the authorisation process CCGs were authorised fully or with conditions.Initial responsibilities/priorities involved working with CCG colleagues to discharge any conditions imposed during the authorisation process. Converting patient insights into commissioning intentions involves developing current systems and governance arrangements around CCG decision making processes to ensure relevant evidence can be collected and demonstrated to support final CCG authorisations.Further responsibilities involve: - - Championing and overseeing the assurance process of CCGs for NHS England.- Building collaborative working relationships to support the future development of CCGs.- Working with CCGs in developing and assuring winter pressure plans, A+E recovery plans, operational plans to name but a few.- Participation in the CCG assurance process providing support and information when and where required for 5 CCGs and Direct commissioning function of the Wessex Area Team.- Liaise with regional and National assurance colleagues to ensure alignment of plans and robust reporting mechanism are in place.- Act as advocate for the Wessex Area Team and deputise at events/meetings as and when required by Wessex area team colleagues.Role and function of post is still in development and the above list is inclusive but not exhaustive. Show less

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  SE - NHS England/Improvement

  Sept 2018 - now

  Deputy Head of Assurance/Cancer Lead for Hampshire, IOW and Thames Valley

  Working across a revised foot print of Hampshire, IOW and Thames Valley I work as subject matter expert for Cancer from and assurance, performance and delivery point of view while providing a senior relationship manager role to the SW element of HIOW STP and Oxfordshire regions acting as single point of contact for issues relating to all constitutional standards performance and ICP development.