Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; England

Francesca is a Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant and Deputy Director of Innovation and Improvement at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. Since early in her career she has complemented her clinical training with education, quality improvement and leadership development and has remained curious about the way health systems work, striving to collaboratively innovate improvements. She is leading programmes of work across the organisation to support staff to build learning, improvement and innovation into everything they do, with a focus on the impact of language in achieving culture change.

Francesca continues to work at local, regional and national level in being proactive to responding to ongoing and changing pressures on the paediatric urgent and emergency care system. Through various initiatives and roles she has championed a whole-system approach to innovating improvements, ensuring delivery of safe quality care. She established an innovative acute hospital at home service for children across North West London and shared her expertise in development of national policy on virtual wards for children. She is currently urgent and emergency care lead for children and young people in North West London’s Integrated Care System.