Retained by the Department of Health to manage a £3M+ procurement of development and maintenance services for the PRODIGY clinical decision support project.  This was run using PRINCE and the NHS POISE (Procurement of Information Systems Effectively) framework. 

Retained to set up and manage a team to take responsibility for promoting awareness of Year 2000 in the NHS, producing guidance and training materials, auditing conformance, etc.  PRINCE was used as the management methodology.  The emphasis in the early stages was on researching and analysing the problem, followed by establishing solutions for use in the NHS.  He was then responsible for organising the dissemination of this information.

Appointed project manager of a 6-man project team to investigate multimedia technologies and standards for use in healthcare.  This involved collecting requirements for European countries, analysing available technologies and establishing a method for assessing suitability.  The resulting report was published by CEN, the European standards organisation.

Retained regularly for 10 years to develop, modify and produce to NHS IT Standards Questionnaire for the Standards Enforcement in Procurement Project (STEP).  This involves reviewing and analysing all healthcare IT standards, selecting those relevant to NHS procurements, producing strategies and policies for their use and designing a procurement questionnaire to reflect this.

Retained to support procurements involving STEP and POISE for two acute trusts and a mental health trust.

Retained to advise on the use of STEP in procurements and evaluate tender responses for an acute trust.

Managed a team of consultants analysing the communications needs of the Computerisation of the Central Criminal Justice Project (CCCJP), producing an implementation strategy and developing EDIFACT messages.

Management of the procurement of a new laboratory system, using PRINCE and POISE.