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Delivering innovative healthcare and technology research and service development to drive equity in clinical and non-clinical service provision.Experience• Innovation and R&D Lead in healthcare with over 23 years' experience in NHS senior management. Key Strengths• Intuitive connecting of people and building trusted collaborative relationships focussed on curious communication around problem solving.• Ability to identify strategic and operational opportunities for development by linking NHS colleagues with those with a shared vision from Higher Education Institutes and Small and Medium Enterprises (triple helix approach).• Aptitude for detail with confidence to pivot in response to changing demands without loss of focus on the ambition of the work. Key Achievements• NHS Programme Leadership in the initiation of delivering Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) activity in NHS Scotland – Project CAELUS• Successfully led the establishment of the partnership with Glasgow School of Art (GSA) to explore and define service challenges through different lenses to deliver operational change across acute and community care settings.• NHS Lead for the development of three products from clinician identified problem concepts to marketplace – UNet, Rhinopinch, Oplight.• Co-author on two Book Chapters in human centred service design in healthcare