Meet the team

Tom McCarthy

Evaluation

Job title: Managing Partner

Tom has led Niche since its creation in the early 1990’s and has guided the development of the management consultancy ever since. This included the formation of the very successful Mental Health Strategies brand in 2000 which played a significant role in developing NHS mental health policy during the development of National Service Frameworks and Tom was instrumental in designing performance frameworks for their monitoring.

Tom began his career as a Health Economist working at both regional and district levels in the mid-1980s and was heavily involved in developing quality of life indicators at both an academic and practical level. He has used this analytical training within Niche ever since. Tom continues to specialise in developing analytic solutions to complex healthcare quality and capacity challenges. He leads on major assignment delivery and retains his passion for the delivery of cost effective and efficient services.

Qualifications

Tom has a BSc in Economics from the University of Salford and a Master’s in Health Economics from the University of York.

Tom’s recent experience includes:

• Numerous capacity and demand modelling assignments ensuring either at a trust or whole system level that patient flow is optimised within the constraints of finances and available workforce.
• Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust: Assisting in the development of low and medium secure services & modelling of options for tertiary mental health commissioning arrangements.
• New Models of Care MERIT Vanguard project: bringing together four West Midland trusts to evaluate the integration of acute and recovery pathways.
• Sheffield CCG: assessment of the future configuration of psychology services across Sheffield.
• Major northern supported housing and step down services charity: Developing their strategic partnership plans for the development of community services to enable rapid discharge of patients from NHS facilities.
• Cheshire and Wirral partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Modelling of Child and Adolescent pathway options.
• Major London acute provider delivering an assessment of Emergency Department demand, capacity and patient flow.