Healthcare IT appointments in brief

This month’s round up of appointments news includes changes at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a new job for University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s well-known head of IT, a promotion at the Health and Social Care Information Centre, and a new vice-president for Orion Health.

All change at King’s

Tony Corkett has become the interim IT director of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is director of IT consultancy Cloud 21 and previously worked for System C. However, before his move to the supplier sector, he worked for NHS Eastern and Coastal Kent Primary Care Trust, the Sussex Health Informatics Service, and NHS Connecting for Health as a programme director.

Corkett’s move to King’s follows the retirement of Colin Sweeney, who had worked at the trust for 20 years, the last 11 as ICT director. Before that, Sweeney was special projects manager and systems delivery manager at the trust, and earlier in his career worked for Sema (now part of Atos Origin) at the East Anglia Regional Health Authority Computer Centre. Sweeney has not severed his links with King’s completely: he is still doing work for King’s Commercial Services.

King’s has also seen the retirement of Clive Stringer, its deputy ICT director and system delivery manager, who previously worked for the NHS Information Authority as a pathology messaging implementation programme facilitator for London. Stringer is also retaining links to the trust, by working two days a week in a role focused on the 100,000 Genomes Project and interoperability; he is also an ambassador for the HSCIC’s care integration and orchestration project and on two of the code4health interoperability groups. 

HSCIC has new chief operating officer

Rob Shaw, previously director of assurance services at the Health and Social Care Information Centre, has been promoted to become its first chief operating officer. From 1 April, he will take strategic and operational oversight of the full portfolio of HSCIC programmes and services and look to drive forward plans arising from the National Information Board’s ‘Personalised Health and Care 2020’ framework and the NHS and social care sectors.

Daniel Ray has a new job at Method Analytics

Daniel Ray has left his job as director of informatics at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and started a new role as director of data strategy at Method Analytics. At Birmingham, Ray implemented key clinical systems and went on to focus on their ability to generate data that could be analysed and used to improve patient care. He also developed the MyHealth@QEHB patient portal. He told Digital Health that: “At Methods there is a lot of opportunity and I will be driving new product development, enhancing current products, data acquisition, BI technology strategy and supporting the growing market share of their current product sets.”

Jonathan Selby joins Orion Health

Jonathan Selby is to join Orion Health as executive vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, following incumbent Wayne Oxenham’s promotion to president of the firm’s US business. Selby, a London Business School alumnus and MBA, was responsible for leading InterSystems’ growth in the United Kingdom between 2010 and 2013, and will now use his expertise to grow the Orion brand in the UK and EMEA.