ABOUT US
Dr Jean-Jacques ('J.J.') de Gorter MBBS DipM MBA RCPathME
Managing Director
I founded Qure Consulting in 2020 after 15 years as Chief Medical Officer for Spire Healthcare Ltd and Group Medical Director for Bupa Hospitals Ltd.
My mission is to help organisations to deliver value-based healthcare and achieve their goals using extensive experience, insight and a wide network of trusted and skilled Associates. My goal is help Boards and their management teams to stand out for all the right reasons - by delivering outstanding patient care, exceptional clinical quality and superior financial performance.
I qualified in the UK from Charing Cross & Westminster medical school (now Imperial College London) and worked as a clinician in the UK, New Zealand and Australia - in primary care as a single handed GP in a rural South Australian community as well as in secondary care, principally Emergency Medicine in Adelaide and various UK teaching hospitals.
I became a Medical Director at NHS Direct helping to establish clinical governance within this innovative multi-site and web based health service that managed 6 million telephone enquiries per year.
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As Chief Medical Officer for Spire Healthcare, I led a large multi-disciplinary team - clinical and non-clinical - responsible for medical leadership, regulatory compliance (with 5 hospitals rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission), clinical governance and patient safety, clinical transformation and board assurance.
Executive and Board experience
As a senior executive director, I have led large organisations in relation to clinical strategy, quality, regulatory compliance and governance. Under private equity ownership, Spire Healthcare grew into a FTSE 250 company of 39 hospitals and 10 clinics underpinned by a consistent, effective clinical governance framework, standardised ways of working and strong assurance systems. I was also operationally responsible for a network of 21 pathology laboratories with a turnover of £30m.
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I have been on the programme boards for three new hospital builds in Edinburgh, Manchester and Brighton, as well as sponsoring the business case for a new cancer (radiotherapy) centre in Bristol following visits to centres in France, Poland and Luxembourg.
Over the last 12 years I have sat on the boards of a number of private companies including Montefiore Hospital Ltd, London Fertility Clinic Ltd and a mental health business, Insight Network Ltd. As a non-executive director of Milton Keynes University Foundation Trust for three years, I chaired the Quality committee helping to improve its CQC rating from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good' and was a member of both the Audit and Remunerations committees. During my tenure, the Trust partnered with a private medical school at the University of Buckingham to become a new University teaching hospital.
In 2012 I became one of the first Responsible Officers appointed in the UK, undertaking this statutory role for seven years and setting up the new systems and processes for organisational compliance across 39 hospitals.
I have led numerous large scale product recalls including metal-on-metal and PIP breast implants, as well as a number of high profile patient notification exercises including the recall of the surgeon Ian Paterson's patients in 2011 and worked alongside Sir Bruce Keogh to develop the Medical Practitioner's Assurance Framework, developing the 'three levels of defence framework' for medical assurance.
As a hands-on medical leader, I have initiated and overseen numerous service transformation projects underpinned by IT including the deployment of Datix for incident reporting, risk management and complaints management, a system for granting and monitoring Consultant practising privileges, a platform for recording and reporting patient reported outcomes (PROMs), e-prescribing for chemotherapy patients, a new electronic patient record for cancer patients that enabled virtual tumour boards (MDTs) and the introduction of a new laboratory information management system (LIMS).
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Medical Leadership
