Adrian Matthews

Adrian is a Chartered Management Consultant (ChMC) at NECS Consultancy and has worked in the NHS and Consultancy for over 10 years. Adrian joined NECS Consultancy in 2018 working on major Primary Care and UEC programmes Nationally and in the Midlands, East of England and London Regions. Adrian took on the role of Head of Yorkshire and Humber Region in 2023, leading a fantastic team of consultants supporting health and care clients across England.

Adrian has specialised knowledge and delivery in Virtual Wards, virtual care, digital & data transformation & healthcare products, Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) and Integrated Urgent Care (IUC), working with national, regional & provider teams.

Adrian led a cross-agency expert team to create the first-of-kind national Virtual Ward digital product solution for managing remote, acute care, now accepted as a use case on FDP for national roll out. Adrian provided regional strategic VW support, ensuring ICB investment cases produced for VW implementation in East of England. He led a team supporting NHS England to stand up a new national Performance and Insights outcome-based performance management & monitoring framework and visual reporting tools for a suite of around 30 key NHS digital products and platforms, including products in prevention and remote care.

Outside of work Adrian loves spending time with his family, being an active member of his local football club including coaching his two sons Arthur and Henry, playing Padel tennis, reading and playing guitar.