Nick Harding

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Nick Harding

Nick Harding OBE BSc[1] FRCGP FRCP HonMFPH[2] DRCOG DOccMed[3] PGDIP(Cardiology), born 21 December 1969, is a general practitioner and Chair of the NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group.[4]

Education and Research

Harding qualified in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1994. Before, during and after this time he undertook research in a number of areas which formed a basis for his future interest in continuous improvement of quality and safety in clinical settings.[1][5][6][7][8]

Career

Harding has worked in inner city Birmingham for more than 20 years. As a general practitioner and a medical educator as part of a teaching practice, Harding has been an RCGP examiner and trainer for many years, involved in assessing national standards for general practice. He holds a number of national roles, including member of the Health Education Advisory Group, member of the Nuffield Leadership Panel[9] and co-chair of the Specialised Commissioning task force.[10]

His regional roles include being a member of the West Midlands Clinical Senate[11] and a Home Office-appointed role for the Birmingham Crematorium since 1999.[12]

In 2015 he created and sourced funding from Health Education West Midlands to support delivery of a new type of Primary Care Leadership development programme for future GP leaders.[13] Over 120 GPs successfully completed this one-year programme.[14]

Commissioning Role

Harding is Chair of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), which crosses two local authority boundaries, covering the whole borough of Sandwell and the western part of the City of Birmingham.[4] The CCG is a membership organisation involving 99 GP practices serving around 547,400 patients across the area. It is broken down further into five Local Commissioning Groups - Black Country, Healthworks, ICoF, Pioneers for Health and Sandwell Health Alliance - that address the needs of the population on a very local level. The CCG has won Health Service Journal CCG of the Year 2013[15] and 2015;[16] and General Practice Commissioners of the Year 2014.[17] It was rated as outstanding under NHS England's Improvement and Assessment Framework in 2016.[18]

Modality Partnership

He is a founding Partner in Modality Partnership[19] (formerly known as Vitality), which brings together 15 practices for almost 100,000 patients. The partnership has invested in technology so that patients are supported with advice from their healthcare team in a range of ways, including online, over the phone, on their mobile or by Skype.

This new type of super-partnership was referred to in the Kings Fund & Nuffield Trust's reviews of potential primary care models for the future[20] and became a vanguard new model of care (MultiSpeciality Community Provider).[21][22] The partnership has worked to improve primary care integration and at-scale quality of care in general practice. It is widening this local model for integration with community, mental health and social care services.

Honours

Harding was recognised with a Queen's award OBE in June 2015 for services to primary care,[23][24][25] and was awarded an honorary professorship from Aston University[26][27] for his work in helping to establish the Aston Medical School. He was also named in the Health Service Journal top 100 clinical leaders of 2015[28] and 2016.[29] He has an honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Physicians (June 2016).

Personal life and influences

Harding has supported charity work in Malawi, working with local communities to improve health through education and sustained development.[30] He attributes his interest in public health, patient safety and the provision of quality healthcare to his parents and grandfather, all of whom were in the medical profession. Harding's grandfather, Dr Colin Starkie, was the director of public health for Kidderminster[31] and worked with political leaders to introduce the Clean Air Act 1956.[31] His father, Dr Keith Harding, founded the Nuclear Medicine Department at Birmingham City Hospital in 1973.[32]

Harding has written an international book on playing the guitar.[33] He is married with three children.

References

  1. 1 2 Harding NJ; Donaldson I; Davies WE (1992). Aran JM; Dauman R, eds. Taurine and its potential in the treatment of tinnitus. Tinnitus 91- proceedings of the 4th International Tinnitus Seminar. Amsterdam: Kugler. pp. 123–126.
  2. ↑ "Membership". FPH. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  3. ↑ "DOccMed". www.fom.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  4. 1 2 "Home - Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG". Sandwellandwestbhamccg.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  5. ↑ Thomson, WH; Harding, NJ; Mills, A; Warren, H; Harding, LK (1989). "Two waiting rooms or one?". Eur J Nucl Med. 15: 570–570.
  6. ↑ Harding, LK; Harding, NJ; Mills, A; Warren, H; Thomson, WH (1989). "What is the radiation hazard in nuclear medicine waiting rooms?". Nuclear Medicine Communications. 10: 252–253.
  7. ↑ Harding, L. K.; Harding, N. J.; Warren, H.; Mills, A.; Thomson, W. H. (1 January 1990). "The radiation dose to accompanying nurses, relatives and other patients in a nuclear medicine department waiting room". Nuclear Medicine Communications. 11 (1): 17–22. ISSN 0143-3636.
  8. ↑ Thomson WH; Harding NJ; Mills A; Warren H; Harding LK (1991). "Radiation doses in nuclear medicine waiting rooms". In Hoefer R; Bergman H; Sinzinger H. Radioaktive Isotope in Klinic und Forschung. Stuttgart: Schattauer. pp. 151–157.
  9. ↑ "Health leaders' panel". The Nuffield Trust. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  10. ↑ http://www.shca.info/perch/resources/shca-specialised-taskforce-briefing-201405.pdf
  11. ↑ "West Midlands Strategic Clinical Network and Senate :: Clinical Senate". Wmscnsenate.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  12. ↑ https://hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Birmingham%20and%20Solihull%20LETC%20-%20Council%20Members.pdf
  13. ↑ "West Midlands | Health Education England". Hee.nhs.uk. 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  14. ↑ "Step forward for a new kind of leadership programme". Primary Care Leadership Programme. Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  15. ↑ http://www.hsj.co.uk/home/hsj-awards-2013-winners-announced/5065465.fullarticle
  16. ↑ https://awards.hsj.co.uk/winners-2015
  17. ↑ "2014 Evening". General Practice Awards. 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  18. ↑ https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/annual-assessment-rep-2015-16-upd.pdf
  19. ↑ "Modality". www.modalitypartnership.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  20. ↑ "New Models of Primary Care – Future General Practice | The Nuffield Trust". www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  21. ↑ "Vanguard sites to have seven-day service and merge GP and social care funding | GPonline". www.gponline.com. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  22. ↑ England, NHS. "NHS England » New care models – vanguard sites". www.england.nhs.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  23. ↑ "The Queen's Birthday Honours 2015 - Press releases - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  24. ↑ Association, Press (2015-06-12). "Queen's birthday honours list 2015: OBE". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  25. ↑ "GPs recognised in 2015 Queen's birthday honours including seven-day GP pioneer | GPonline". www.gponline.com. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  26. ↑ "Chair of Sandwell NHS Clinical Commissioning Group takes up role at Aston University". Great Barr Observer. 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  27. ↑ "Honorary Professorship for Birmingham GP for services to primary care - Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG". Retrieved 2016-06-21.
  28. ↑ http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-knowledge/top-leader-lists/clinical-leaders/hsj-clinical-leaders-2015/5087348.fullarticle
  29. ↑ "HSJ100 - the annual list of the most influential people in health". www.hsj.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  30. ↑ Harding, Nick (2011). "Dalitso Health". Aesculapius. 26: 67–70.
  31. 1 2 Group, British Medical Journal Publishing (2016-08-17). "Nick Harding: Happiest working for health in Malawi". BMJ. 354: i4445. doi:10.1136/bmj.i4445. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 27535585.
  32. ↑ "Opening of £1.4 million gamma camera suite | Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals". Swbh.nhs.uk. 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
  33. ↑ "Nigel Briggs, Nick Harding - Play: A Brief Guide To Playing The Guitar | Buy online at Cross Rhythms Direct". direct.crossrhythms.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-21.
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