Sarah oversees the delivery of our real-world evaluation and applied research portfolio and a range of contracted activity from health and care partners. Sarah is the national lead for Transforming Wound Care for the network of 15 Health Innovation Networks which has now implemented lower limb pathway recommendations across a significant number of systems in England. 

Sarah is also appointed to the Implementation Lead role for the NIHR East of England Applied Research Collaborations (ARC) and works with partners in both the ARC and the Health Innovation Network to support the implementation of promising applied health and care research. Additionally Sarah has formal advisory roles to a number of charity and SME organisations.

Sarah has held numerous strategic NHS roles since qualifying as a clinical psychologist. She was the regional lead for the national dementia strategy before taking up a patient safety and safeguarding leadership role at NHS England. Her diverse portfolio at Health Innovation East represents her enjoyment of working in complex programme delivery across multiple systems to benefit workforce and patient populations.

“I was drawn to Health Innovation East having experienced the difficulties for myself of developing and implementing a national digital app for frontline practitioners and want to help make adoption as effective as possible. I really enjoy leading a diverse team that are implementing change at scale and pace, across the spectrum of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and who support change to become embedded into routine ways of working.”

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