About us
We combine evidence-based methodologies with operational experience to deliver consultancy solutions to the NHS.
Our Team
Jeremy (Jez) Tozer
Founder and CEO
Jez founded the business in May 2017 following his frustrations with existing performance consultancy firms in the market, who he felt did not always adequately deliver value against the needs of the organisations he worked with.
As the architect of much of the Prism Improvement approach, Jez now has complete oversight of all programmes. Originally trained as a pharmacist, before moving into operational management, Jez has worked in all trust departments from Radiology through to A&E, from divisional manager level through to the executive board.
Over the course of the last 10 years, Jez has built his reputation as a market leading Interim Chief Operating Officer, specialising in emergency care turnaround in some of the most challenged trusts the country, including Ashford & St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. His interim career culminated in the turnaround of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust in the spring of 2016, who had been rated as the worst all-round NHS Trust in the country by CQC.
Peter Fry
Managing Director
Peter has 25+ years of experience in the NHS, moving up to Director of Operations and Chief Operating Officer at a number of teaching and Shelford group hospitals, including Kings College NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Peter, therefore, brings a wealth of experience as a well seasoned operational leader in the NHS, with a strong belief in the link between operational rigour and improvement methodolgies.
Peter has been involved with Prism since 2018, during our programme at Oxford University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and is now responsible for leading the successful implementation of our improvement programmes.
Barney Pascall
Director
Barney joined Prism at it’s inception in 2017 and has been responsible for the operational management of the business, as well as developing our model for improvement in Urgent & Emergency Care.
Prior to this, Barney trained as an Exercise Physiologist before joining a start-up business CP+R, a recovery and rehabilitation centre based on Harley Street. As Head of Clinical Services he played a pivotal role in growing the business from a headcount of two through to over thirty during the course of six years.
Our Board of Directors
Stephen Dorrell
Chairman
Stephen was an MP from 1979 to 2015; he was Health Secretary in John Major’s government and later Chair of the House of Commons Health Committee. After leaving Parliament he was Chair of the NHS Confederation from 2015 to 2019 as well as serving as the first Chair of the Birmingham and Solihull STP.
Stephen is a director of Evergreen Health which provides digital solutions for NHS primary and community services, and Laing Buisson which provides independent analysis and support for social care; he continues to be a regular contributor to public debate about the future of public services and takes a particular interest in the development of more integrated care services.
Matthew Swindells
Non-Executive Director
Matthew is the Chair of the Board for the four acute hospitals that make up the North West London Acute Collaborative – Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust, Hillingdon Foundation Trust, Imperial College Hospital Trust and London North West Hospital Trust.
He also runs his own consultancy, MJS Healthcare Consulting, through which he provides strategic advice on digital transformation in global healthcare to a small number of innovative companies. He has spent his entire career in healthcare, most recently as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer for the NHS in England. In this role he led the NHS’s operational management, emergency response, major transformation programmes and the creation of Integrated Care Systems, to move the NHS away from a market system towards population health management.
Matthew and his family returned to England when he was asked to take on the role of Deputy Chief Executive and National Director of Operations and Information for NHS England. Matthew is a member of the University Council at Hull University and holds a Visiting Professorships at Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation.
Our Approach
People
Our delivery teams include the most experienced operational and clinical practitioners currently in the healthcare sector.
Performance
We blend evidence-based operational practices with transformational improvement methods, to improve performance.
Legacy
Our delivery teams will use their experience to ensure best practice is transferred to staff so they are able to own and sustain improvements after we have left.
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