Solent NHS Trust, England

Helen is an Advanced Quality Improvement Methodologist at Solent NHS Trust’s Academy for Research and Improvement.  She has had a leadership role in their expanding quality improvement programme since 2016, providing training in QI methodology, facilitating teams implementing improvement activities, and sharing and spreading learning.  More recently, she has focused on supporting services manage demand and capacity.  For the past two years she has been using the specialist expertise developed through participation in a training programme with NHS England’s Demand and Capacity team to develop and deliver a programme integrating quality improvement methods with demand and capacity management and modelling. Helen is a qualified occupational therapist specialising in mental health and holds a master’s degree in Clinical Research and a doctorate focusing on healthcare quality improvement.