What relevant experience do you have to perform your current role?

30+ years in the NHS. Starting as an audiologist working clinically and then moving into management, setting up a new screening service across four maternity sites. Then diversifying into project and programme management, working in cardiovascular disease, stroke and cancer with a two year secondment to GIRFT thrown in for good measure. I love planning, organising and influencing, helping bring people and ideas together.

What excites you about working at South East Clinical Delivery and Networks?

I love the fact that we are building the NHS service of the future. When we are developing a concept we are building the idea as it should be and we are making services better as a result. We work with the most amazing people with different skill sets and experience and I am very proud when we see the sharing of an idea or the implementation of a project. I love the idea of problem solving, working together as a team and improving patient services. Negotiation, influence and then actually getting a job done. I work not just in one hospital, or one System but across many and with an ability to see the national perspective.

What difference are you making to improve the care and health outcomes of patients or members of the public?

We have a couple of national guidance documents that give a blueprint of what stroke services of the future should look like and the improvements it will take to make this happen. I am part of a team, the coordinator, bringing people together to discuss, share and consider new improved ways of working. There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing something you coordinated and planned happen.