Head of Improvement Programmes, East London NHS Foundation Trust, England

Sarah is a mental health nurse by background, an IHI qualified Improvement Advisor and Head of Improvement Programmes at East London NHS Foundation Trust.

Sarah is a strong advocate for service user involvement within QI work. Recently she worked alongside a group of service users, carers and clinicians to co-design an intervention toolkit to improve nurse-patient interactions on acute mental health wards. She has also co-designed and delivered an extensive range of teaching and training sessions related to this and other work. Sarah holds a PhD in Health Services Research, with further skills and expertise in behaviour change, qualitative and quantitative research methods and grant writing. She also has an extensive publication record, many publications which were co-authored with service users and carers.