Dr Tom Hine-Thomas
Tom studied medicine at the University of Oxford, graduating in 2015 with an intercalated degree in the theme of neurosciences. He took a short trip up north, completing academic foundation training in East Yorkshire, before returning to Thames Valley for his current role as an anaesthetics and intensive care registrar. Whilst in Yorkshire he completed a postgraduate certificate in Health Research and Statistics at the University of York, winning the outstanding taught postgraduate academic achievement prize.
Tom’s career has always been eclectic. At school, he developed and ran several price comparison websites, collaborating with clients such as Amazon and John Lewis. At university, he volunteered with the South Central Ambulance student first responder scheme, provided first aid for events at Wembley Stadium, and sang in an acapella group at a number of festivals. During foundation training, Tom completed an associate simulation fellowship, producing and teaching multidisciplinary courses, and developed a number of award-winning interventions to improve junior doctor teaching.
Tom has regularly held representative roles, including being competitively selected to join the BMA junior doctors’ committee negotiating team for the 2018 contract review. In a data analyst role, Tom was responsible for assimilating proposals, analysing datasets from existing sources, and identifying acceptable solutions for doctors, DHSC and NHS Employers. This successful review ended the ongoing dispute between junior doctors and government, resulting in an additional £90 million of investment into the contract.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Tom’s key interests are workforce, efficiency and digital transformation, particularly the integration of existing datasets to inform interventions which can better staff wellbeing and patient care. Having developed these interests at team and organisational levels, he is excited to join the clinical fellow scheme to learn how improvements can be led at a system level. He is also interested in evidence-based transformation, looking at using successful examples from other organisations and industries to inspire changes to our healthcare system.
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