In 1988 Victor Peel created the Centre for Health Informatics at the Health Services Management Unit, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. It researches and consults in the managerial and organisational opportunities and implications of information and technology developments in health care. His interest in the managerial implications of health informatics started in 1978, having developed a seminal, local patient based information system. He directed the first evaluation of the National HISS & Resource Management Project (for the Welsh Office) from 1990 to 1993; the 1995/6 national evaluation of the Resource Management Programme in England for the DoH; the current evaluation of the Electronic Patient Record and Integrated Clinical Workstation Demonstration Projects; formative work on all UK National Health Information Strategies and, latterly, has undertaken the first review of the viability of telemedicine across a geographical area. The creation of an educational syllabus for Health Information Management staff has enabled the Unit to help create a European MSc in Organisational Issues in Health Informatics.

Victor's health management career started in 1966 and took him to Administrator of a University Teaching Hospital and then Chief Executive of a health district for six years.

He has advised the Department of Health, the World Health Organisation and other Health Services at a national level. He has co-authored four books, several chapters and many articles. In 1994/5 he was a member of both of the UK Audit Commission reviews on Health Information Systems and Medical Records and Advisor to the Cabinet Office Foresight project.