Dr. Edward Fitzgerald

Ed is a medical doctor with 20 years’ experience in health practice and management. He has a deep knowledge of healthcare delivery across providers and systems globally, with personal experience gained from working in 40 countries on over 80 occasions. His healthcare management consulting experience provides strategy, policy, and operational expertise, with a focus on care system and pathway design, reform and integration. Ed brings particular experience in hospital management, integrated care, health equity and universal health coverage.

As Global Co-Lead, Health Equity and Access in Developing Markets, Ed collaborates with a network of KPMG colleagues globally on a broad range of health equity and access approaches that support Universal Health Coverage programs along with initiatives to strengthen healthcare service access, quality and affordability.

Ed provides leading global thinking to guide our healthcare work, including authoring our ‘COVID-19: Recovery and Resilience’ report and ‘Creating a Culture of Excellence’, KPMG’s landmark global study on implementing and sustaining continuous improvement in healthcare. Working with 20 health leaders from 15 organisations in 8 countries, this helped design our unique approach. He is adept and highly credible in communicating with senior leaders and clinicians. His extensive research and policy experience includes over 200 academic publications, and he played a central role in pioneering collaborative health quality and outcome research networks globally. He is the recipient of several awards for his work, including the Royal Society of Medicine's Tanner Medal, and the Royal College of Surgeons'​ Margaret Witt Scholarship.

Prior to KPMG, Ed worked with Professor Atul Gawande’s global health NGO ‘Lifebox’, where his fieldwork provided a practical knowledge of healthcare in emerging economies. He is a Visiting Lecturer in the Centre for Global Health at Kings College London.

His recent work covers a broad range of strategy, policy and operational projects across healthcare, including:

• Supporting Bermuda’s Hospitals Board and Ministry of Health in developing a new integrated healthcare strategy for the island.
• Seconded to NHS England as Head of the NHS Integrated Care System Accelerator, leading a team delivering an intensive 6-month programme of hands-on support to help local healthcare providers bridge the gap to becoming integrated care systems
• Developed the NHS STP/ICS Workforce Readiness Tool to support workforce development across integrated care systems as part of the forthcoming NHS People Plan
• Delivering NHS hospital operational improvement, providing service reviews for a UK island, including options for pathway redesign
• Developing a new multidisciplinary frailty pathway for a London Borough and Clinical Commissioning Group, bridging acute and community providers, including establishing a clinical reference group and organising regional patient consultations
• Co-designing a new NHS Vanguard integrated care model for a multispecialty community provider, assisting them in successfully obtaining further investment from NHS England
• Supporting a regional Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) submission for integrated care, reviewing clinical, operational and financial sustainability across seven specialties in three acute hospital providers
• Leading an NHS community healthcare trust analysis, identifying 5% of patients generating nearly 50% of the contact activity, and benchmarking key workforce, IT and logistic issues for prioritisation