Clients

“It’s been a joy working with Tara and Jenny as they’ve helped us build local confidence in the digital home care model and achieve greater patient uptake. 

Their deep knowledge and understanding of the NHS, coupled with a passion for a home based model of care - supported by great tech - is a fantastic combination to drive adoption, enabling many more patients to benefit.” 

Martin Ratz

Founder, Doccla 

Project Our input has been to develop relationships with sites to help build confidence in the new pathways of care, and a home based care model, as well as developing a method for increasing patient uptake more rapidly, that the delivery teams are taking up. This has been based on our own experience working across the NHS for several decades augmented by a hands-on approach to implementation supporting including visits to services and sessions with front line clinicians. We are also providing advisory input into what the future of digital home care could look like, well beyond virtual wards, into proactive virtual care. 

This includes achieving Health Hubs for long term conditions such as COPD and Heart Failure, enabling people living with progressive LTCs to spend more time at home and less in hospital. A number of clients of Doccla in the NHS and Europe are adopting this model. 

Further input has been provided by delivering a range of talks and webinars and producing thought leadership such as the recent White Paper and HSJ articles. 

Team involved: Tara Donnelly from March 2023 to present, Jenny Thomas March 2023 - July 2024, Lesley Soden summer 2025.   

“I commissioned Tara and Lesley to complete a swift but important piece of work and was delighted with the quality of outcome, their ability to engage positively with staff and their wider knowledge of the subject matter. 

I would definitely recommend them for similar pieces of work which require sound judgement and the ability to work with others quickly, but for a short piece of time, to deliver real results.”

David Probert

Chief Executive, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Project Digital Care was asked to undertake a rapid review of the digital health structures, working with the UCLH team, and make recommendations to help ensure that they were well set up for the future. This included completing 25 senior stakeholder interviews to feed in a range of perspectives into the review.

Team involved: Tara Donnelly and Lesley Soden, June - July 2023 

“Thanks to partnering with the Digital Care team, we have been able to build consensus for complex change programmes across organisations, including clinical and technical teams, engage with a range of suppliers to understand our market options and maintain momentum.”

Susan Sinclair

Managing Director, RM Partners - West London Cancer Alliance 

Project Digital Care provided Digital Support to RM Partners to help deliver its ambitious digital programme. This covered programme management, implementation support and specialist digital expertise with a large component on building strong relationships with key stakeholders. This enabled delivery of a range of innovation projects across the nine acute Trusts and built ICB wide consensus for harmonising on future digital solutions to better support cancer pathways across the alliance.   

Team involved: Pip Hodgson (lead) and Tara Donnelly, from May 2023 - June 2024

About NICE is the leading authority on evidenced based care in healthcare within the UK. It helps practitioners and commissioners get the best care to patients, fast, while ensuring value to the taxpayer. NICE evaluate all types of new technologies for NHS use, considering clinical effectiveness and value for money. the also produce useful and usable guidance, helping health and care practitioners deliver the best care.

Project Digital Care worked with the NICE team to design a section of the NICE website to present the work on guidelines and best practice in a usable format. This included drafting precis of key documents, editing to improve clarity, identifying clinicians to contribute to case studies and testing iterations with front-line clinical practitioners. 

Tara also spoke at the NICE 2023 Conference to launch the site and the new guidance.  

Team involved: Breid O'Brien and Tara Donnelly, August to November 2023

"Tara and the team brought a dynamic to this new venture that we couldn't have achieved on our own. Their expertise in business case writing was so critical in helping our delegates develop the key skills they need to make positive changes in the NHS, and to hear from Digital Care's experts about the accomplishments they have achieved in digital health change-making, both at a strategic thinking level and in terms of sheer grit and determination, helped give the course the confidence-boosting element that was needed, to generate a mass momentum effect."  

Jimmy Endicott

Programme Director, Digital Wound care Leadership Programme 

Project Our input has been to develop a workshop around improving business case writing skills for clinicians to help them successfully win support for their digital project proposals within their own organisations. We also gave delegates insights from accomplished digital practitioners who could advise on how delegates can better navigate governance processes in their own organisations and strategically build a support network which would help drive their ideas through to success - as well as having the key combination of confidence and analytical 

thinking that is often required of digital change leaders.

Team involved: Lesley Soden and Pip Hodgson, May - June 2024