John Batchelor Managing Director
Director, CPFA, FCCA, LLB, MHSM
John founded Teamwork in 1990 and brings radical and innovative approaches to health and social care communities to achieve sustainable financial viability whilst modernising services, and meeting national and local performance targets. John has worked extensively with the NHS on a range of complex assignments working with whole health and social care communities in relation to assessing financial and clinical performance, and achieving financial recovery. John also leads on projects involved with managing investment and capacity, including resolution of affordability gaps for major business cases. John has been involved in conflict resolution and brokerage for a number of strategic health authorities. John was formerly a Director of Finance & Information for a provincial Teaching Authority in the NHS, and prior to this, Principal Assistant Treasurer to a Regional Health Authority.
Debra Batchelor Director
CPFA
Debra is co-founder of Teamwork and areas of special interest are around the equity and access to healthcare. Debra delivers projects involved with resource allocation within the NHS, demand and use of healthcare services, and measures of patient experience and outcomes. This scope of her work extends to mental health and PLD services, as well as acute, community and primary care. Debra also has extensive experience of patient classification systems in the UK, Canada and the US, and the development of resource and costs weights which are used to create incentives within healthcare systems, including ‘payment by results’ for the NHS. Debra is involved in supporting independent sector organisations, including a bidder for the ISTCs, diagnostic and treatment centres. Debra is an accountant by background and formerly an Assistant Director of Finance in the NHS. Innovations include the development of the recently launched a ‘future vision’ document for NHS Finance Directors, working closely with the National Finance Staff Development Board for the NHS.
Brian Niven Assignment Director
BSc (Hons), MSc Operational Research PG Cert Health Economics
Brian has worked extensively in healthcare consultancy and been involved in a wide range of projects including options appraisals and business case development, and service reviews. Brian supports clinical redesign projects and, in particular, projects to transfer care from acute hospitals to home based care and other non-hospital settings, with more effective outreach, community and primary care services. This involves projects looking at admission avoidance and working with hospitals to assess the intensity of care required by individual patients and potential reasons for delays in discharge. Brian is the lead in the Company for clinical governance and has supported numerous reviews for the Healthcare Commission and formerly the Commission for Health Improvement.
John Saunders Assignment Director
MBChB, MBA, FRCS (Glas), FRCS (Edin)
John was formerly a consultant surgeon and honorary senior lecturer with a special interest in gastro-intestinal surgery. John was at the forefront of developing and applying minimally invasive techniques, which revolutionised the diagnosis and management of a wide range of major conditions. John also designed and delivered clinical training programmes for minimally invasive surgery. Since the early 1990s, John has worked fulltime on clinical reform, either as Medical Director or as the medical member of the healthcare consultancy team. He has provided expert input into numerous hospital organisations and healthcare reform projects in the UK, Middle East, Palestine, Indonesia, Croatia and Tanzania. John has been involved in pioneering work in developing telehealth solutions to support clinical redesign and healthcare reform. John has considerable political, strategic and operational expertise in managing clinical change.
Graham Shipp Assignment Director
FBSc (Econ), CPFA
Graham has over 16 years of consultancy experience, most of which has been focused on the health sector. He joined Teamwork after having spent the last five years in the health service as a Director of Finance in both Bristol and West Yorkshire. He was a key player in the submission of one of the first NHS Trust applications for Foundation Trust status. As a result he has an in-depth understanding of the processes which Trusts will need to put in place to deliver the analytical reviews and financial modelling which will be required in order to be 'fit for purpose'.
His consultancy experience spans all aspects of financial management and financial governance. He has significant expertise in financial recovery projects, business management including the organisational wide impact of the Payment by Results regime and all aspects of capital investment projects, from option appraisal through to business case construction. He has extensive experience of operating within the PFI regime, from the preparation of Invitation to Negotiate documentation through to accounting treatments and achieving financial close. Graham has also lectured overseas on business and financial management of renal therapy services.
Imtiaz Bala Assignment Director
BSc (Hons)
Imtiaz is an honours graduate and has been in healthcare consultancy for a number of years. Imtiaz has contributed to a significant number of major projects including the development of business cases, support for clinical governance reviews, and the development of a user specification for Reference Costs for the Department of Health. Imtiaz supported a major assignment working with an independent sector bidder for the first wave ISTC, diagnostic and treatment centres.
Imtiaz has worked on developing the pathology expertise within the company with projects and building on the experience with the UCLH, he has been involved in the pathology reconfiguration for the Hammersmith Hospitals, development of Portsmouth Hospitals’ pathology plans in line with the development of their PFI new build, and options for an integrated pathology service across Winchester and Southampton.
Imtiaz has also been working with a number of Trusts and their preferred bidders in reviewing their PFI plans. This area of work has expanded and has recently involved undertaking reviews on behalf of the Department of Health's Capital Investment Unit to support the affordability of PFI schemes.
Imtiaz has also been supporting the company’s work on developing ‘better practice’ care. He supported a recent review of the Coventry and Warwickshire health economy and the associated capacity requirements. At present, he is supporting the work with West Hertfordshire Hospitals in developing ‘better practice’ in acute service delivery across all specialties.