Jim McDonald

Jim is one of NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU)’s Senior Programme Managers within their Digital Transformation service. He is currently on long-term assignment with NHS England’s Cyber Improvement Programme, working on the ‘cyber risk & data’ domain for the health and care sector.

Prior to this he led NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board’s Remote Monitoring Programme whilst contributing to other Digital Transformation pieces of work, including IoT; during this time he also led the strategic support to all six West Midlands ICBs for their remote monitoring programmes.

Operating at pace and scale within the NHS can be challenging, requiring a holistic understanding of: finance, procurement & contracts, information governance, clinical safety, integration/interoperability, strategic priorities and objectives etc. When applied, it enables key stakeholders, including commissioners and clinicians to be able to access an appropriate solution to meet their needs, balancing the direct healthcare requirements along with ‘secondary uses’, crucial in benefits reporting and analysis.

Jim has been a regular presenter to many local, regional and national audiences to articulate the benefits to patients and clinicians along with the co-benefits such as the Inequalities and Net Zero of Digital Transformation, harnessing the data to provide actionable intelligence to key stakeholders.