| Name | Seamus McGirr | |
| Position | Director of Clinical Performance | |
| Qualifications | RMN, RGN, BA Hons, Health Studies, MPhil, Action Learning and Research. North West Leadership Academy, Executive Directors Development Programme. | |
| Key Skills and Achievements | Seamus qualified firstly as a Mental Health Nurse in 1984 in Northern Ireland and later as a General Nurse in Manchester in 1986. He then spent much of his career working at various levels in A&E Units across the Northwest eventually becoming the regional lead for Urgent Care for NHS Northwest. Seamus has worked at regional level as an Associate Director of Performance and Commissioning and more recently as an Executive Director of Nursing in a local Primary Care Trust. He is the Director of the Northwest Utilisation Management Unit at Salford PCT which is a product of his research into “Appropriateness of Care” and is embedded within the National Contract for Hospital Services.He is well known across the Northwest and nationally for his work in A&E services having undertaken reviews of services on behalf of Strategic Health Authorities across the country and the Prime Ministers Delivery Unit. He has worked closely with the Departments of Health in England and Northern Ireland on developing Urgent Care, understanding and redesigning Unscheduled Care systems and developing “appropriateness of care” measures and processes. He is and has been a frequent presenter and occasional chair at regional, national and international conferences.As a registered nurse Seamus is primarily concerned with quality of patient care and health services both at patient level and reflecting his recent positions, at population level. His “unique selling point” is his insight into clinical and whole health systems coupled with his skills in making sense of clinical management information at service, management and academic levels.
Seamus’s academic interest is in ensuring systems meet the needs of whole populations through advanced use of clinical information so that commissioners and providers continue to develop future proof health services. |
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| Experience | Seamus was the author and a key contributor to the regional development of the framework for management of Urgent Care (Northwest’s Healthier Horizons) .He was part of the Contract Development group at DH in respect of the National Model Contract and author of the Care and Resource Utilisation (CRU) component of the DH Acute Hospitals Contract. He was a member of the National Diagnostics development team and a member of the Northwest Diagnostics Development team which introduced industrial scale, community based radiology services. Seamus was previously an advisor to the Department of Health in Northern Ireland on Urgent Care and “Managing Appropriateness of Acute Hospital services”.He was, with Dr Steve Ward and others part of the team that introduced the first widespread telemedicine application in the UK a HSJ Award winner in 1997.
He continues to be the Director of the North West Utilisation Management Team at Salford PCT. He is also a member of the North West Urgent Care Executives group which supports Northwest CEOs by advising on Urgent Care matters to Cluster Boards. |
