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Zircadian Consulting Limited is a new clinician-led healthcare consultancy specialising in clinical workforce and service re-design, enabling NHS trusts to meet the QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) agenda. The clinical consulting team is made up of high profile, qualified doctors and nurses with varied clinical and managerial backgrounds. Through service and workforce review and redevelopment, Zircadian Consulting will empower organisations to raise the quality of care delivered to patients, maximising productivity and efficiency while fully embracing and exploring innovation.

 

The managerial experience within the team at Zircadian Consulting covers acute teaching hospitals, strategic health authorities, primary care trusts and healthcare consultancy firms. Members of the team also have specific experience in paediatrics, general practice, public health, surgical specialities and emergency medicine.

 

Matthew Bluck, Director of Zircadian Consulting Limited commented, “Workforce development is a major issue for healthcare organisations. Now more than ever it is critical for NHS trusts to ensure that their clinical staff are working in the most efficient way, enabling them to continue to improve the services they provide for patients.”

 

Joining Matthew Bluck on the management board at Zircadian Consulting are Dr. Yasmin Ahmed-Little as Non Executive Director, Dr. Deborah Kendall as Medical Director and Dr Henry Carleton. Dr. Mona Stokes and Dr Masood Ahmed are joining Zircadian Consulting in the positions of Senior Consultant and Managing Consultant respectively. Chris Broome also joins the team as Junior Consultant to provide expert legal advice.

 

Meet the full Zircadian Consulting team

 

Services provided by the new consultancy, which is an off shoot from Zircadian Limited, the leading supplier to the NHS of Doctors’ workforce management solutions, include:

 

Workforce:

• Review
  

• Modelling
  

• Planning
  

• Skill-mix Assessment
  

• Contract and Legislation Advice
  

Service:

• Redesign/Reconfiguration
  

• Pathway Review
  

Training and Support:

• Rota Design and Implementation

• Re-banding Services for Trusts and SHAs

• Banding Appeals

• Clinical Director and Medical Director Training and Support
  

• Medical Staffing and HR Officer Training

• Medical Staffing Support

 

Dr. Deborah Kendall said, “At the moment, there are no other consultancies able to provide the level of workforce expertise offered by Zircadian Consulting. Zircadian Consulting is led by qualified clinicians with a broad experience across many aspects of NHS organisations. We anticipate that our services will enable trusts to redevelop their workforces to work more efficiently while continuing to improve the safety of services offered to patients."

For more information on Zircadian Consulting please email: dee.enright@zircadian.com or call 020 8946 8199.