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| Alex Berry, Divisional Commissioning Director, London Specialised Commissioning Group |
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Alex joined the London Specialised Commissioning Group in 2010 as the Divisional Commissioning Director. She is responsible for commissioning a number of specialised services across London as well as having the lead for the overall contracting process within the organisation. As part of Department of Health’s transitional work programme for Specialised Services, she has also been part of a small project team looking at the interface between the NHS Commissioning Board (specialised services) and the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). With over 18 years’ experience in commissioning, service and system redesign, Alex has worked in a variety of roles from Area Director of Commissioning to Director of Strategy and System Reform within a number of PCTs in London and Hampshire. |
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| Chris Butler, Commissioning Support Development Team, Department of Health |
 Chris joined the Commissioning Support Development Team at the Department of Health in April 2011. He leads the work helping clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) become “informed customers” of commissioning support services (CSSs) and has led the development and implementation of the national assurance process for commissioning support services. He co-ordinated the development of the “ready reckoner” tool to enable CCGs and CSSs to model their costs and structures. Prior to this he had over 30 years’ experience in NHS management including roles as Finance Director in acute trusts, SHA Performance Director, and Chief Executive of two PCTs. |
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Mary Crawford
Deputy Borough Director/Head of Joint Commissioning, NHS & London Borough of Hounslow |
Having qualified and worked as an Occupational Therapist in New Zealand, Mary has subsequently worked in England and Scotland in the NHS and Social Services. She worked in clinical work, primarily in mental health, management of mental health occupational therapy services and then became a manager of a number of allied health professions. Following seven years on the management team of Broadmoor Hospital as Director of Rehabilitation and then of Clinical Support Services, she developed a portfolio career. It included running a fee paying advisory service for the College of Occupational Therapists, commissioning specialist mental health services, interim management and carried out a number of projects to improve working in mental health and older peoples’ services. She also developed a Therapy Strategy for a PCT, ran development programmes for the Integrated Care Network, and reviewed child and adolescent mental health services. She is a member of the Health & Social Care Expert/Reference Group and is the co-author of the workbook Discharge from Hospital – pathway, process and practice. On a voluntary basis she has served as Board Chairman of Turnstone Support, a not-for-profit provider of services for people with a learning disability and older vulnerable people, and is a Board member of Parkside Housing group and subsequently Radian Housing. |
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| Alison Kerfoot, NHS Shared Business Services |
 Alison leads the Commissioner Services division of NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS). She has has 10 years’ experience in procurement, managing global, national and regional contracts. Alison initially worked in the defence industry, where she was heavily involved in Strategic Supplier Relationship Management alongside her role as a procurement bid manager for some of the UK’s largest export deals. Her first NHS post was at Greater Manchester Collaborative Procurement Hub where she was one of the first procurement professionals to engage with PCTs and support the development of effective contestability and procurement strategies. In the past four years Alison has led on a variety of clinical service procurements including the North West’s first collaborative market management programme as Commercial Lead. She is now leading the procurement service offering for NHS Commissioners with the aim of developing collaborative market management strategies across all clinical services to deliver sustainable value for money. |
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| Dr Marilena Korkodilos, Public Health Director, London Specialised Commissioning Group |
 Marilena is the Public Health Director at the London Specialised Commissioning Group. She qualified in medicine from University College London Medical School in 1994. After registration, she worked in paediatrics and subsequently the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirth and Deaths in Infancy. Marilena joined the Eastern Deanery Public Health Training Scheme in 2002.In 2005, she was seconded to the Health Inequalities Unit at the Department of Health. She was responsible for the cross government Review of the Health Inequalities Infant Mortality PSA Target, which was published in February 2007 and subsequent Implementation Plan for Reducing Health Inequalities in Infant Mortality: A Good Practice Guide, which was published in December 2007. Marilena worked as a Consultant in Public Health Medicine in the Public Health Workforce and Capacity Team at the Department of Health from December 2007 and as Head of the Infant Mortality and Vaccination and Immunisation National Support Teams from October 2008 before taking up her current post in October 2010.
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| Dr Joe McGilligan, MB, ChB, MRCGP |
 Joe qualified in Birmingham in 1990 and has wide medical experience including time as a flying doctor in Australia. He is a GP partner at Greystone House Medical Practice in Redhill, Surrey and has a special interest in minor surgery. As an advocate of an integrated approach to health care, Joe has brought together the nineteen East Surrey practices and is now the elected Chairman of ESyDoc LLP, a clinical commissioning group which puts the patient first and re-invests in local services. Joe is co-chair of the Shadow Surrey Health and Wellbeing Board. |
| Kevin Pritchard, Managing Director, Squadron Medical Ltd |
 Kevin is Managing Director of Squadron Medical, a specialist third party logistics provider working with both public and private healthcare organisations delivering value added logistics services directly into patient care areas, labs and theatres. Prior to joining Squadron Kevin held a number of roles within NHS-based organisations including Director of Strategic Sourcing at the Commercial Procurement Solutions division of NHS Shared Business Services, and established a forerunner for clinical commissioning group support functions, as Director of the Commissioning Business Service, an ISO-accredited and award-winning provider of commissioning and provider contract management services to SHAs, PCTs and practices. Working with trusts and industry as Director of Procurement at the NHS North West Collaborative Procurement Hub, he served as first Chair of the NHS National Procurement Enablement group. Kevin is a CIPS-qualified member of the Institute of Directors, with a background in operational supply chain management in a range of industries and sectors including gas, construction, automotive and manufacturing. He holds an MBA from Cardiff University, studying at the Lean Enterprise Research Centre, and an MSc in Health Economics from Birmingham University. |
| Ian Robinson, Putting People First Implementation Manager, London Borough of Hounslow |
 Ian is an independent consultant in health and social care, currently working with the London Borough of Hounslow in the implementation of Putting People First. This work has included supporting commissioners and external service providers in their readiness for personalisation. Ian has worked has a commissioner in Supporting People, Drugs & Alcohol, Children's Services as well as supporting voluntary sector providers in undertaking service reviews and reviewing clinical governance. Previously, Ian was the Chief Executive of EATA (national umbrella body drug and alcohol treatment providers), Deputy Director of Release and Interim Area Director for Compass. |
| Andrew Rudd, Former Chief Operating Officer, NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency |
 Andrew was the Chief Operating Officer for the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHS PASA), part of the Department of Health. NHS PASA was responsible for purchasing and supply strategy for the NHS in England and also managed national contracts covering £3.2bn of the NHS’s £20bn total of non-pay expenditure. Andrew has 25 years’ NHS purchasing experience at local, regional and national level. At PASA, he was also the Director responsible for eProcurement, sourcing and data analysis and programme and uptake management. His wider corporate responsibilities included performance, quality and information. Andrew has a Masters Degree from the University of Birmingham and is a member of both the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. |
| Ming Tang, Chief Executive, Healthcare Commissioning Services, West Midlands CSU |
 Ming joined NHS West Midlands in October 2009 and was responsible for merging the Contract Monitoring service (CBSA) with the Healthcare Commissioning Procurement service of HPC in April 2010. Prior to this, Ming was a Senior Partner with Accenture and led their European Supply Chain Services division. With over 17 years’ experience in programme leadership and delivery of supply chain strategy, operations and transformation projects, she has worked with many leading FSTE 100 clients across Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America in consumer goods, retail and pharmaceuticals as well as industrial manufacturing and utilities. |
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