The Team
Gavin Mowling
Director - Operations
Gavin Mowling has a BA in Business Economics from Middlesex University (London, England). He has over 11 years of experience of working with different types of health organisations, he previously spent 7 years working in both the finance and information departments at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust after graduation.
Gavin has lead consultants on the successful implementation of patient level costing in over 15 sites across Europe, he has also helped many sites to construct robust and effective SLR reporting.
Gavin is currently in the process of finishing his ACCA accountancy qualification as well finishing a BSC in applied accountancy using the NHS as his subject matter for his dissertation. Gavin joined Healthcost in February 2007.
Countries of Work Experience: United Kingdom, Slovenia, Republic of Ireland.
Brett Oates
Director
Brett Oates (B Com) has extensive experience in the health sector, specialising in health management, contracting and hospital costing systems. Brett's international experience focuses on development of cost and revenue models across a broad spectrum of hospitals, insurers and governments with a focus on casemix funding. Recently the international projects include:
participated in the implementation of clinical costing services to several major trusts in the UK, including
Addenbrooks (University of Cambridge), Norfolk and Norwich and Chelsea and Westminster.
currently the lead consultant for the national clinical costing project of Slovenia,
worked with the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland where he was tasked with undertaking patient level costing studies for a number of public hospitals for the creation of annual DRG cost weights.
a lead role in the development of the national costing framework for the Republic of Germany and has a pool of 40 hospitals for which routine costing have been undertaken since 2002. Including among others Heidelberg University, and the Charitè (University Hospital of Berlin)
included in several World bank costing projects including activities in Slovenia and Bosnia/Herzegovina
undertaken the calculations for use with health insurance negotiation for a private hospital group in France.
In Australia, Brett undertook the National Hospital Cost Data Collection (NHCDC) Private Sector data collections for Rounds 2, 3 and 4 and is currently undertaking the public NHCDC returns for the Northern Territory (commenced round 6), and has provided advice or undertaken the Tasmanian NHCDC public return through every round.
Countries of Work Experience: Australia, Bosnia Herzegovina, France, Germany, Ireland, Singapore, Slovenia, United Kingdom.
Kevin Ratcliffe
Originally a registered nurse by profession, for the past eleven years Kevin was Manager of Clinical Costing for the Tasmanian Department of Health. During that time Kevin also worked as a consultant in many countries providing advice on patient level costing and Casemix issues, including the Republic of Ireland, Germany and Slovenia. Kevin is an internationally recognised expert in costing and Casemix issues, has been published in journals such as the Australian Health Review, and has delivered papers to conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Slovenia, Italy, and Singapore.
Kevin is a welcome addition to our team and will be involved in data analysis, benchmarking projects and developing international markets such as Germany, Slovenia and Romania.
Les Egerton
Scripting Support - Visasys
Les Egerton has a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Griffith University (Queensland, Australia). Les joined Visasys in September 2001 and has provided technical and costing support to ComboCC users for private and public hospitals across Australia. Les has been instrumental in providing technical support for current ComboCC implementations in the UK.
Countries of Work Experience: Australia, United Kingdom
Kim Lim
Scripting support – Visasys
Kim has a first class honours degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Lancaster. Kim worked for several years as a cost accountant for the Parkway Group of Hospitals in Singapore and was a key player in implementing ComboCC for Parkway in 2001.
Kim was integral to the implementation of ComboCC in the North West London based Trusts in 2006. As one of our scripting experts, Kim has a high level of technical skill as well as a wealth of knowledge in the area of patient level hospital costing.
Rajesh Bhardwaj
Data Analyst
Rajesh joined the Healthcost team in March 2009 and has a BSC in Computer Science from Brunel University (West London).
After graduation Rajesh got his first contract position as a data administrator working for a UK based Import Company in Slough. This position gave him the chance to put his academic skills to practice by doing data administration, data analysis and reporting.
Since then Rajesh has gained experience in data administration, data requirements capture and data analysis working for a variety of companies.
At Healthcost, Rajesh's emphasis is on the quality of data required for effective clinical costing.
Countries of Work Experience: United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland.
Scott Brewer
Data Analyst
Scott joined the team in March 2009. His role includes analysing the quality of data, producing reports, as well as updating and writing scripts.
Scott graduated in 2007 with a 2:1 in BSc (Hons) Business Information Technology. Through his studies he has gained experience in analysing businesses and data as well as implementing systems.
Countries of Work Experience: United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland.
Atif Ahmad
QlikView Consultant
Atif has 4 years of experience in Business Intelligence Reporting using QlikView. With a total of 15+ years of experience in computer software development.
He has been working in different areas after completing his Masters in Software Engineering, Masters in Business Administration (MBA) with a Major in Management Information System (MIS).
Atif has always been involved in teaching as a visiting faculty member, and has been teaching technology related subjects to university level students. Currently he is the lead QlikView developer and trainer with Healthcost.
Countries of Work Experience: United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland.