HEALTH INNOVATION WESSEX - Key Persons
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- Evaluation Programme Manager ( Qualitative ) - Insight
Amanda has a background in health and social care-focused research and evaluation, having worked in the private, local authority, health and academic sectors. She has held research roles at the universities of Winchester, Southampton and Oxford. She obtained her PhD from the University of Southampton in 2013.
Prior to joining Health Innovation Wessex she worked in the Research and Development (R&D) team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting clinicians to develop research projects, facilitating patient and public involvement and overseeing a small team of Patient Research Ambassadors.
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- Programme Manager Evaluation ( Qualitative )
Andrew undertook his PhD at the Centre for Innovation and Leadership, Faculty of Health Sciences,...
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- Programme Manager, Industry and Innovation
Angus brings a wealth of commercial experience across a range of medical device categories and ma...
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- Industry and Innovation Support Assistant
- the Support Assistant
Ani Haughton is the Support Assistant for the Industry and Innovation team.
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- Programme Manager for Cancer Care
Anna initially joined the Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) in August 2019 as a programme coordinator. After working on the COPD Discharge Bundle project and Medicine Safety in Care Homes Programme, she moved to work on the urgent Covid Oximetry at Home programme, during the autumn of 2020. Anna then moved to a new post, hosted by Health Innovation Wessex (at that time named Wessex AHSN), working for the Cancer Alliance in Hampshire and IOW.
Before joining the PSC, Anna has worked for various NHS healthcare services as a registered Children's Nurse. She has worked in both tertiary and community settings, in a variety of clinical roles, and has a passion for delivering and supporting healthcare services to deliver high quality patient care.
Most recently, as a Nurse Educator, she was responsible for leading the development and implementation of the first regionally delivered Paediatric Nurse Preceptorship Programme in England. This programme harnessed the expertise of the different paediatric teams throughout Wessex to provide standardised study days and documentation that promoted the delivery of high quality training and support to any new children's nurse employed within the region.
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- Innovation Adoption Support Assistant
- Support Assistant
Caroline is a Support Assistant for the Innovation Adoption team, having initially joined our Pat...
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- Associate Director - Communications
Charlotte is the Associate Director - Communications for Health Innovation Wessex
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- Senior Programme Manager Innovation Adoption - ( HIOW Locality )
Cheryl Davies has worked for the NHS for over 18 years. Her background is in statistics and she h...
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- Senior Programme Manager - Insight
Emily is the Senior Programme Manager for Insight. She is an experienced programme manager with expertise in co-designing evaluations of programmes and innovations within the health, social care, and charitable sectors. Prior to joining the organisation, Emily managed Cancer Research UK's Health Professional Engagement Programme in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. She worked with primary care and NHS partners to drive forward improvements in cancer early diagnosis through the delivery of training and tailored support to primary care, using quality improvement methods and evidence-based approaches.
Emily was the Evaluation and Learning Coordinator for THET (Tropical Health Education Trust), supporting health partnerships between NHS professionals and their counterparts in low-and-middle-income-countries to plan, monitor and evaluate their capacity-building projects. While in this role, Emily developed tools and resources for the health partnership community on monitoring and evaluation, project planning, and health systems strengthening.
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- Associate Director - Strategic Partnerships and Business Development
Emma is our Associate Director for Strategic Partnerships and Business Development
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- Innovation Adoption Support Assistant
Emma is an experienced Support Assistant with a range of administrative skills.
Fiona specialises in designing transformation strategies and operational plans to deliver success...
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- Programme Manager Innovation Adoption
Fiona is a programme manager within Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative, and within Nationally Prioritised Innovations for Asthma Biologics.
Fiona is a registered nurse with 17 years' experience working in the NHS. She has spent her career working in several London trusts both in Emergency Departments and Critical Care Units in a variety of roles. During this time, Fiona developed a passion for patient safety and patient experience whilst developing her clinical expertise. In 2017 Fiona took a career break and completed the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race before returning to London to undertake a new role as the Major Trauma Service Lead for south-west London and the wider Surrey and Sussex region.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Fiona decided to move out of London and back to the south coast. She is looking forward to spending more time outdoors and being nearer to her family.
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- Director of Industry and Innovation
After a PhD in the genetics at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Frank quickly moved into commercial rese...
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- Innovation and Industry Programme Manager
- Programme Manager Innovation & Industry Needs Assessment Service
Gemma is an Innovation and Industry Programme Manager. Her focus is to support innovators and to ...
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- Programme Manager Patient Safety
- PSC Programme Manager and Improvement Coach
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- Senior Programme Manager Innovation Adoption - ( Dorset Locality )
Heather joined the Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative in February 2021 to support the Mental Health Safety Improvement Programme and Managing Deterioration (Children and PEWS) .
She is an Occupational Therapist, completing her training in London, before moving to Edinburgh and then Dorset in 2007. Heather has a Masters in Advanced Mental Health Practice and has worked within the NHS for 30 years, mainly within mental health services in most settings including acute assessment, community and outreach posts - working clinically and in leadership roles.
She undertook an HEE-funded Patient Safety Fellowship which focused on learning from staff reflections to focus on how patients and families are supported around the time of death. Heather is keen to address the key themes from this within her work: improving system working, communication and staff wellbeing.
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- Patient Safety Programme Manager / Maternity & Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme
Holly joined Health Innovation Wessex in February 2024. She completed her BMid (Hons) degree in 2...
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- Evaluation Programme Manager ( Qualitative )
Jackie has a background in general and mental health nursing in both the NHS and voluntary sector before moving into health research, where she worked with the Royal College of Nursing and the then National Institute for Clinical Excellence (now the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).
She has worked on multi method trials in NHS settings with an emphasis on using qualitative methods in process evaluations. More recently, Jackie worked for the international organisation Cochrane for evidence synthesis (systematic reviews of studies). Jackie has recently completed a PhD in implementation research with a focus on complex systems.
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- Innovation Adoption Support Assistant
Jenny is an Innovation Adoption Support Assistant who joined Health Innovation Wessex in 2023.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director Innovation Adoption - Strategic Programmes
Jo Murray is the Associate Director for Patient Safety. She has a portfolio of projects delivered through the Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative team, including the national priorities laid out in the NHS Patient Safety Strategy covering deterioration, maternity and neonatal, medicines, mental health, and adoption & spread safety improvement programmes. She is also a national co-lead for the deterioration workstream.
Jo joined us from Oxford AHSN where she was the workstream lead for sepsis & deterioration for 5 years. During the pandemic she played an instrumental role in the Covid Oximetry @ home project. She has a clinical background, working as a Respiratory Physiotherapist in several London teaching hospitals before moving to Hampshire and beginning her journey in patient safety and clinical governance at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She is trained to Masters level in patient safety, quality improvement methodologies, facilitation and network weaving and is an ILM level 5 coach.
Jo is passionate about adding value and working collaboratively to achieve service-user centred care.
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- Associate Director Innovation Adoption - ( HIOW Locality )
Joe is the Associate Director Innovation Adoption - (HIOW locality) - this programme aims to supp...
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- Programme Manager
- Evaluation Programme Manager ( Qualitative )
Katherine is the Programme Manager for mental health. Katherine joined the organisation in Novemb...
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- Senior Communications Officer
Kathleen is the Senior Communications Officer at Health Innovation Wessex. She began her career i...
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- Senior Communications and Strategy Manager
Kim joined Health Innovation Wessex (formerly Wessex AHSN) in April 2023. Prior to this, she spen...
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- Associate Director of Finance
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- Associate Director Innovation Adoption ( Dorset ICS Locality )
Leah joined from an acute NHS trust where she was the Clinical Service Manager for Therapies
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- Programme Co - Ordinator Innovation Adoption
Linda is a Programme Co-ordinator for Health Innovation Wessex within the Innovation Adoption team.
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- Chief Executive
- Registered Pharmacist
Nicola joined Health Innovation Wessex in April 2020 from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), where she was Deputy Director of Health and Social Care and Programme Director for System Engagement.
Nicola is a registered pharmacist, who has over 20 years' experience in health and social care, working in senior roles at national, regional and local level on implementation, quality improvement, strategy and transformational change, medicines optimisation and patient safety, and cross sector partnership working.
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- Programme Manager Innovation Adoption
Nikki is the Workstream Lead for the NHSE Medicines Safety Improvement Programme. She is a registered midwife with 16 years of NHS experience working within the Wessex region. Nikki has worked as a senior clinical leader on labour wards for most of that time with a passion for patient safety developing during her career. She gained a first-class honours degree and has completed modules in Public Health at MSc level.
Nikki has worked on the project to establish a '24 hour labour line' whilst working for a local trust which has since been scaled up across one of the Local Maternity Systems in Wessex. More recently she has been in a quality assurance role before moving into a combined educational and patient safety role which is her passion. Within this role, she gained further experience in providing professional leadership in relation to managing deterioration whilst working in collaboration with other stakeholders to reduce adverse birth outcomes associated with monitoring the baby in labour.
When Nikki is not at work she can normally be found outside, either gardening, tending to her pets, on a campsite (potentially with lots of Guides as she is also a Guide Leader!), at a festival or in her campervan (given the opportunity!).
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- Innovation Adoption Programme Manager
- Programme Manager Innovation Adoption
Patrick Arnold is an Innovation Adoption Programme Manager with a focus on Primary Care.
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- Senior Programme Manager Industry & Innovation
Peter is Senior Programme Manager for Industry & Innovation. He joined Health Innovation Wessex i...
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- Associate Director - Insight
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- Senior Programme Manager - Insight
Rachel Bailey joined Health Innovation Wessex in April 2022 as a Senior Programme Manager in the Insight team. Rachel has worked for the NHS for over 33 years with experience in clinical, transformational, and operational roles .
She joins us from her previous role as Southampton and Southwest Lead for Onward Care working across the system to support complex discharge pathways across multiple organisations. She supported the system-wide transition to the Covid-19 Hospital Discharge Service Policy and Operating Model published by the government in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. This required support, coordination and leadership across health, social and voluntary sectors, across both primary and secondary care involved in patient discharge. This resulted in the implementation of multiple changes in policies, procedures, and processes safely at a large scale and pace.
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- Programme Manager Innovation Adoption
Rob studied Ancient History at Swansea University and graduated in 1998. He spent four years w...
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- Evaluation Programme Co - Ordinator ( Qualitative )
Ruth joined the organisation in April 2021. She has ten years' clinical experience working as a physiotherapist within the national health service, having qualified with a BSc (Hons) degree in Physiotherapy in 2011. Before joining Health Innovation Wessex (formerly Wessex AHSN), she obtained NIHR funding for MRes in Clinical Research from St George's, University of London in 2014, and NIHR funding for a Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London in 2018.
Ruth has previously been involved in studies using mixed methods approaches and co-design principles, with her most recent work having an emphasis on stakeholder acceptability and model of care feasibility.
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- Executive Assistant
- CEO & Strategic Programme Coordinator
Sam is Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer and has over 15 years experience in a w...
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- Associate Director - Operations
Sarah has over 30 years' experience in a variety of management roles, operating across the public...
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- Innovation Adoption Programme Coordinator
Simeon Kent is an Innovation Adoption Programme Coordinator who joined in 2022.
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- Evaluation Programme Analyst ( on Maternity Leave )
Sophie joined the organisation in May 2019 with seven years' experience of working in healthcare analytics. She has worked for the NHS in both provider and commissioner settings; first for the Isle of Wight NHS Trust before joining the Business Intelligence team at the South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit where she provided analytical expertise to commissioners at Southampton City CCG, Surrey Heath CCG and North East Hampshire and Farnham CCG. She has a detailed working knowledge of various NHS datasets and has contributed to many projects across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight ICS and Frimley ICS.
As a quantitative analyst, Sophie works on a range of national and local evaluations and provides quantitative advice as part of the Insight team.
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- Deputy CEO & Strategic Programme Assistant
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- Finance Support Assistant