Kate works as a Sustainability Specialist in the South East region for the Greener NHS team and has worked in sustainability for the last three years. Within the NHS, she covers all sustainability workstreams, including digital sustainability, net zero clinical transformation, medicines, estates decarbonisation, travel and transport and supply chain/procurement. Her role is twofold; to engage, collaborate and support the six Integrated Care Systems and 29 Trusts within the South East of England, and to also provide specialised sustainability support to the region with the overall ambition to get the NHS to Net Zero by 2040/2045.

Prior to this, Kate worked in the Royal College of Psychiatrists for three large national quality improvement programmes, supporting quality improvement within prison mental health, psychiatric intensive care units and forensic units. This role included organising over 200 reviews a year, leading a number of those reviews, writing RCPsych ‘gold standards of care’ for each programme and engaging in research. Kate has now published three academic papers; one published reviewing the quality of mental health provisions in prisons within The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, and another looking at the prevalence of drug use in Psychiatric Intensive Care Units. The third is the soon-to-be published paper on ‘Exploring the Carbon Footprint of Virtual Wards in a large Acute Hospital’ from the BMJ Innovation.