John Cruickshank

Consultant Director - John Cruickshank is an independent expert in NHS IT, having been intimately involved in its development continuously over the last 25 years.

His passion for healthcare IT began in the mid 1980s when he project managed one of the first successful NHS implementations of a hospital-wide electronic patient record. As a leading management consultant in the field, he has held leadership roles in the healthcare practices of major systems integrators and consultancies at UK and European level.

During the 1990s, he founded, built and sold his own consulting practice, Pareto Consulting, which set the benchmark in independent client-side advice to NHS Trusts and the centre. Through his work, he has gained deep experience of NHS culture, processes, people and systems. He also has an in-depth knowledge of the clinical IT market both in the UK and Europe, and of its effective and commercially practical application and implementation in different countries. He has personally advised over 100 different NHS Trusts and acted as a core advisor at a national level to two published NHS IT strategies in the 1990s.

John is a graduate in economics and management science from St John’s College, Cambridge.