Dr Helen Smith, Non-Executive Director

Dr Helen Smith will join us as a Non-Executive Director, bringing more than 30 years of clinical and leadership roles at provider, regional and national level.

National Clinical Advisor for Mental Health with NHS England Safety team for 5 years, she led the development of the mental health component of the National Patient Safety Strategy and the National Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism Services Improvement programme.

She was the clinical lead for the South of England Quality and Safety Improvement for more than 14 years and spent 8 years as executive medical director at Devon Partnership NHS Trust.

Dr Smith has experience working beyond mental health. She has supported improvements in NHS 111 services, acute trust emergency departments and the establishment of the Exeter Nightingale Hospital through her work with the South West Academic Health Science Network (now Health Innovation South West).

She has spent time in the US with the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and the Billions Institute and has worked with health and social care systems in England and Wales to scale and spread a wide range of interventions.

Dr Helen Smith will join the UHP Board this summer (2024). 

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