About Sorcha

Sorcha McKenna is a principal in McKinsey’s Dublin office. Her work focuses on
delivering organisational transformation in health care, and she has a special interest in integrated care, leading McKinsey’s work in this area across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Sorcha’s recent projects have included leading the development of a new strategy for a leading hospital group in Ireland, advising a London district on an integrated care strategy to improve the quality of care and reduce costs and working with a major Irish medical institution to define its five-year strategy for medical education. She also advised the health minister in a region of Spain on the development of a new integrated care strategy, including the design and implementation of organisational and governance structures to support integrated working across the health system.

In another project, Sorcha helped a primary care trust in a major city to develop and implement an approach for driving a step-change in GP access. The work involved defining the data sources and analyses needed to understand the causes of poor access, communicating the findings to providers and developing action plans and a performance framework to address access issues. Following the completion of the project, patient experience scores rose by 10 percent.

Before joining McKinsey, Sorcha obtained a degree in microbiology and a PhD in molecular microbiology from Trinity College Dublin.

Published work

“Strengthening sub-Saharan Africa’s health systems: A practical approach,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2012

“What it takes to make integrated care work,” Health International, 2011, Number 11 (PDF–642 KB)

“Five strategies for improving primary care,” Health International, 2009, Number 8 (PDF–624 KB)

Education