Helen has been a GP in the NHS for over 30 years and has had an interest throughout her career in training and service development. She is committed to driving system integration of care to deliver improved outcomes for people, by creative redesign of care pathways, intelligent use of digitalisation and data, and workforce revisioning.

For much of her career she has been a GP trainer and a course organiser and professional GP appraiser. Her leadership and board level experience includes Calderdale CCG, now Calderdale Cares Partnership, where she is the clinical lead for Community Integration and Population Health Management and is passionate about addressing inequalities. She has strong interest in leading multi-disciplinary teams. She was a PHM facilitator on the NHS England Place Based Development Programme. She also works as a consultant to a number of different digital companies. She is a keen horse rider and fell runner.

“I became involved in the digitalisation of healthcare due to increasing frustration at the obvious gap between the needs of healthcare and the provision of tech solutions, when these seem to be available and improving so many seemingly less important areas areas of our lives.”