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Tim Kelsey is the national director for patients and information at the NHS.

Career

After graduating from university in 1988, Kelsey began working as a reporter at the Independent and the Independent on Sunday and then in 1995 an editor at the Sunday Times.

In 2000 he was the founder, CEO and executive chairman of Dr Foster Intelligence, a firm which analyses and publishes patients outcomes in the NHS. In 2007 he launched NHS Choices, the national online health information service which now reports around 20 million unique users a month.[1]

From 2010 to 2012 was a senior expert at management consultancy McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey he was information and public services lead, focusing on helping 'public and private sector organisations develop consumer information strategies'. In May 2011 he was seconded to the Cabinet Office as executive director of transparency and open data on an assignment supporting development of national strategy.

In July 2012 he was appointed national director for patients and information, where he leads on 'information, technology and patient and public participation for the NHS'.[2]

In 2014 Kelsey was ranked by the Health Service Journal as the 42nd most powerful person in healthcare.[3]

Education

Resources

See: The Corporate Capture of the NHS

Notes

  1. NHS England Who's who, accessed 10 April 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Linkedin Tim Kelsey, accessed 10 April 2015.
  3. Health Service Journal Top 100, accessed 10 April 2015.