Colin Lewry

Colin is an ex-Senior Partner for GE Healthcare Partners with 20 years experience working in Healthcare, before which he worked across multiple sectors for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is a specialist in Workforce Planning and Redesign, working internationally on all aspects from front-line skills, through redesign, development of workforce plans and building of workforce hubs and collaboratives.

Recent relevant experience includes:

  • Wrote “The Book of Health & Care Workforce Planning”.

  • Director of Health Education England’s Workforce Repository & Planning Tool team based in the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System.  The team developed the WRaPT on-line workforce modelling tool, and has operated for ten years across the UK delivering workforce redesign.

  • Programme Lead on behalf of Health Education England for the CLEAR Workforce Education programme up to 2023, working nationally across Urgent & Emergency Care, Mental Health and Anticipatory Care. 

  • Visiting Fellow for the University of Suffolk and was the Integrated Care Academy’s Workforce Lead until August 2023. Running Workforce Development programmes in Suffolk & North East Essex, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and Stafford ICSs.

  • Developed TAQAA – Workforce Planning tool used in the Eastern Health Cluster in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

  • Founded the Association of Health & Care Workforce Planning in 2023 to provide development and access to resources to improve workforce planning skills internationally.

“I am a national expert in the full breadth of Workforce Planning and Redesign in Health & Care settings.  I have experience going back to 1994, a published book on the topic, multiple articles, and a position managing two of Health Education England’s most prominent redesign approaches.  This is all backed by 13 years’ experience at PwC and 10 at GE Healthcare Partners, where I had a track record of building, developing and leading effective teams. In my final role before leaving to set up my own Management Development business I was Senior Partner for GE Healthcare Partners.” - Colin Lewry