Phil Trickey
Founder, Business Lifesystem Ltd
Senior advisory leader in NHS, healthcare, public sector and complex delivery
Phil Trickey is the founder of Business Lifesystem Ltd, author of the Business Lifesystem Methodology and a senior advisory leader with deep experience across NHS, healthcare, public sector and complex technology-enabled delivery environments.
His work focuses on helping senior leaders restore clarity, alignment and value where strategy, governance, delivery, suppliers, digital change and benefits realisation have become disconnected.
Phil brings a combination of strategic, operational, commercial and digital delivery experience that is particularly useful where complex change has become difficult to lead.
He has authored NHS clinical systems strategy, procured major EPR and clinical systems, led deployment as Programme Director, recovered complex programmes and founded a software company whose product was deployed into public sector and regulated organisations.
Selected experience
- NHS clinical systems strategy and EPR procurement
- Clinical systems deployment and programme leadership
- Digital, operational and organisational change leadership
- Complex programme recovery and delivery assurance
- Business case, benefits realisation and value discipline
- Founder and former CEO of QOREX Ltd
- Experience across NHS, public sector and regulated environments
What Phil brings
Practical NHS and delivery experience
Phil has worked where strategy, digital change, governance, suppliers, operations and benefits realisation meet. His experience includes NHS clinical systems strategy, EPR procurement and deployment, programme recovery, supplier alignment, business case development and senior advisory support.
A systemic way of working
The Business Lifesystem approach was developed from years of seeing the same organisational problems repeat: competing priorities, disconnected governance, stalled programmes, unclear accountability and benefits that are promised but not realised. The methodology helps leaders understand the whole system, not just the visible symptoms.
Commercial and supplier perspective
As founder and former CEO of QOREX Ltd, Phil brings experience from both client and supplier perspectives. This helps him understand the practical realities of procurement, contracts, software delivery, supplier alignment, investment cases and value realisation.
Strategic clarity
Helping leaders clarify direction, sharpen priorities and reconnect activity to strategy.
Digital and clinical systems experience
Bringing hands-on NHS experience across clinical systems strategy, EPR procurement, supplier alignment and deployment.
Delivery confidence
Supporting complex programmes where delivery has stalled, drifted or become difficult to control.
Benefits realisation and value discipline
Strengthening accountability for benefits so business cases translate into realised value, not just promised value.
Phil’s work is grounded in a simple belief: many organisational problems are not caused by lack of effort, but by complexity that has evolved without enough clarity, alignment or accountability.
Business Lifesystem was developed to help leaders understand that complexity, identify where value is being lost and focus intervention where it will make the greatest difference.