Samantha joined NHS Lothian in October 2019 as Innovation Project Team Manager and was responsible for setting up the South East Regional Innovation Test Bed office team, Health Innovation South East Scotland (HISES). The HISES team provide a key support function for the delivery of transformational innovative change within the three NHS Boards (Borders, Fife, and Lothian), whilst also contributing to the spread of healthcare innovation across NHS Scotland.
Taking up the post of Senior Innovation Programme Manager in March 2023, Samantha provides leadership in developing a large complex and diverse portfolio of innovation projects and programmes, working with clinicians, academics, service managers, third sector, and industry partners. This includes defining innovation challenges, developing partners and consortiums to address these challenges. Her portfolio includes COPD and Long-Term Conditions Management, Paediatric Asthma, Cancer, Hip Fracture, and a proposed drone delivery network which connects hospitals, pathology laboratories, distribution centres and GP surgeries across Scotland.
Samantha is passionate about leading service redesign and mapping clinical pathways to identify innovative opportunities for system wide change across health & social care to support the delivery of frontline services and improve outcomes for families and the care they receive.
Recently Samantha has just gotten married at Orocco Pier in South Queensferry, all her hard work and late nights paid off with an incredible wedding. If you ever need a wedding planner Samantha is the person.
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