Kathy is Deputy Chief Executive for Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber, an organisation that supports the spread and adoption of innovation into the National Health Service. She’s worked in NHS England, and the Department of Health and Social Care, but her real interest is in helping create the conditions for innovation to spread so patients, staff and the wider economy benefit. She has a particular interest in supporting women in healthtech and in ensuring patients and their families and carers have a say in adoption of innovation that will affect their lives.