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Matthew Swindells to join Tribal
1 May 2008
Consulting and professional support services provider Tribal has
announced that Matthew Swindells, currently Interim Chief Information
Officer for the Department of Health, will join the company in a new
role as Managing Director for Health on 1 June 2008.
The role will provide strategic leadership of Tribal's health
business, working across the full range of services Tribal provides to
the health sector — consultancy, health commissioning, information
systems, architectural design, human resources and PR and
communications.
The role will involve further developing client relationships at the
highest levels within the Department of Health, the NHS and companies
supplying services to the NHS.
Matthew Swindells joins Tribal following a highly successful career
in senior NHS policy and operational roles. As chief executive of Royal
Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust, he steered the Trust from a
performance star rating of zero to two in as many years.
More recently, he has acted as the senior policy adviser to the
Secretary of State for Health and in his current role has been leading a
major review of the use of information across the NHS and the National
Programme for IT [NPfIT], which is due to report in the near future.
Matthew was voted 12th in the HSJ's most recent list of the 50 people
with the greatest influence on today's NHS policy and practice.
Peter Martin, Tribal Chief Executive said, "I am delighted that
someone with Matthew's knowledge and expertise in the health sector is
joining Tribal. The fact that Matthew has chosen to come to join us now
is a powerful endorsement of our strong reputation and capability in the
health market.
"Matthew's strategic leadership across the business will help guide
our development of new services and broaden Tribal's highly successful
portfolio to develop new services to further meet the needs of our
health clients."
Matthew Swindells said: "I am extremely excited at the chance to work
with Tribal. I have spent my career in the NHS trying to improve care
for patients and services to communities through better management and
the use of technology. I believe that through Tribal I can use my
knowledge and experience to help the NHS address the challenges it
faces, work in new ways with its partners and meet the expectations of
the public."
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