Rick Stern
Rick Stern was the Chief Executive of Bexhill & Rother PCT until the end of July 2005. He led a national pilot to develop out-of-hours services and was the lead Chief Executive for the South East within NatPaCT, the national PCT development programme.
Rick has worked across a range of sectors and in a variety of roles, including general management, internal consultancy, research and face-to-face with vulnerable clients. He led Access to Health, a Kings Fund initiative in the early 90’s to improve health care for homeless people, was responsible for developing quality standards in a mental health and community trust in Inner London and for developing commissioning within a regional health authority.
Rick is currently a special advisor in primary care management to the NHS Alliance and is leading a new national network for primary care providers. Current clients include providers of out of hospital services and PCTs.
Rick Stern was the Chief Executive of Bexhill & Rother PCT until the end of July 2005. He led a national pilot to develop out-of-hours services and was the lead Chief Executive for the South East within NatPaCT, the national PCT development programme.
Rick has worked across a range of sectors and in a variety of roles, including general management, internal consultancy, research and face-to-face with vulnerable clients. He led Access to Health, a Kings Fund initiative in the early 90’s to improve health care for homeless people, was responsible for developing quality standards in a mental health and community trust in Inner London and for developing commissioning within a regional health authority.
Rick is currently a special advisor in primary care management to the NHS Alliance and is leading a new national network for primary care providers. Current clients include providers of out of hospital services and PCTs.
David Carson
Dr. Carson was a GP for 10 years before spending 6 years in an inner London Health Authority leading primary care policy and performance. David spent 4 years developing GP Out-of-Hours services, and emergency care policy and performance for the Department of Health. During this time he published – “Raising Standards for Patients: New Partnerships in Out-of-Hours Care” (known as The Carson Report). David was also the primary care lead on the development of ‘Reforming Emergency Care’.
The Carson Report defined the way ahead and set the standard for unscheduled care in the healthcare community. It embodied integrated services and co-operative staff working as core principles, as well as introducing new thinking and new approaches to unscheduled care.
Dr. Carson was a GP for 10 years before spending 6 years in an inner London Health Authority leading primary care policy and performance. David spent 4 years developing GP Out-of-Hours services, and emergency care policy and performance for the Department of Health. During this time he published – “Raising Standards for Patients: New Partnerships in Out-of-Hours Care” (known as The Carson Report). David was also the primary care lead on the development of ‘Reforming Emergency Care’.
The Carson Report defined the way ahead and set the standard for unscheduled care in the healthcare community. It embodied integrated services and co-operative staff working as core principles, as well as introducing new thinking and new approaches to unscheduled care.
Henry Clay
After a background in manufacturing organisations including roles as operational manager, accountant and general manager, Henry has spent over 15 years as a consultant to organisations in both the private and public sector. Work within the acute healthcare sector has involved him recently in A&E, Diagnostics and Pathology, IT systems (including ‘Connecting for Health’), Imaging, Medical assessment as well as in Health Insurance. In Primary Care, Henry has worked with many Out of Hours providers, particularly in benchmarking their performance. He has also worked with Practice Based Commissioning groups looking to specify services, groups of GPs forming provider service organisations and in looking at mutual and social enterprise models of provider.
Henry’s focus is on the analysis and his skills complement those of David and Rick.
After a background in manufacturing organisations including roles as operational manager, accountant and general manager, Henry has spent over 15 years as a consultant to organisations in both the private and public sector. Work within the acute healthcare sector has involved him recently in A&E, Diagnostics and Pathology, IT systems (including ‘Connecting for Health’), Imaging, Medical assessment as well as in Health Insurance. In Primary Care, Henry has worked with many Out of Hours providers, particularly in benchmarking their performance. He has also worked with Practice Based Commissioning groups looking to specify services, groups of GPs forming provider service organisations and in looking at mutual and social enterprise models of provider.
Henry’s focus is on the analysis and his skills complement those of David and Rick.
