As the Director of the SLOSS programme, Lucie leads the team in ensuring a secure and sustainable delegation of specialised services into the integrated care systems of South London (SEL and SWL). Collaborating with four tertiary trusts, two ICBs, as well as London and national specialised services teams, Lucie takes the helm in developing collaborative senior partnerships. Her goal is to help shape national and London policies to align with the needs of South London ICS stakeholders. Drawing on current policy insights, Lucie also creates local approaches to provide effective solutions to some of the delegation challenges.

Lucie also serves as the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for the national Pathfinder programme, which tests select delegation functions ahead of full national implementation. Furthermore, she holds the role of London lead for the Sickle Cell Improvement Programme. With an extensive background in provider operations and two decades of ICB board level leadership, Lucie maintains a strong focus on driving tangible results and values productive collaboration.

As Deputy Director, Kate is a member of the senior leadership team responsible for development and delivery of South London’s specialised delegation programme and national Pathfinder programme. Kate supports South London organisations to understand the risks and opportunities associated with delegation, enabling us to make informed decisions and effectively navigate the changing landscape.

Kate is passionate about harnessing the best of science and innovation towards improving health outcomes, equity and efficiency and leads on specialised transformation for South London. Working with a matrix team of project managers and clinical leads, she oversees a range of initiatives targeting integration opportunities, health equity and delivering improvements to South London’s specialised services.

With 12 years’ experience in operational and strategic roles in the NHS and Australian public health systems, Kate has extensive experience in delivering complex healthcare transformation and has developed a career focus on system working, building partnerships and multi-organisation collaboration.

Alice has joined the SLOSS team in July 2023 as Head of Clinical Networks. In this role, Alice will lead the development of South London specialised clinical networks, providing support to network managers and clinical leads to deliver improvements for patients. Previous to her SLOSS post, Alice served as the South London Cardiovascular Network Manager.

Dan is the SLOSS Informatics Programme Manager, leading the data workstream within the Pathfinder programme, and working to ensure data-based insight from a wide range of sources across the whole of specialised services.

Andrea is the Business Development Manager for the SLOSS team, with a focus on communications and coordination to amplify the visibility of the team, programme, and resulting impact. Bringing over two decades of experience and an MBA in marketing to the NHS, she has worked across a variety of clinical networks and is passionate about leveraging digital elements to internal and external communications.

Bethan is the Neurosciences Collaboration Manager focused on the delivery of the South West London and Surrey Specialised Neurology Pilot. The pilot is a national exemplar programme for neurosciences transformation and a regional exemplar for specialised delegation. The two-year SWL and Surrey Heartlands Specialised Neurology Pilot was initiated in summer 2022 to reduce variation in neurology services, to deliver more integrated care, closer to home, while escalating to the tertiary centre when most appropriate.

Donna joined the team in September 2023 as the pan-London Sickle Cell Improvement Project Manager, covering a number of workstreams, including improving urgent and emergency care pathways, and community services for people living with sickle cell disorder. Donna previously worked within Cardiovascular operations at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.

Ella joined the team in April 2023 on secondment from the Civil Service, having previously spent time in both project and operational roles. Since then, Ella has worked to support the development and co-ordination of the London Sickle Cell Improvement Programme. Building on this work, Ella has been appointed as a Project Manager to support the delivery of the Sickle Cell Improvement Programme in South East London. This will involve working across networks, trusts, commissioners, primary care and voluntary and charity sector organisations to support the delivery of the Programme across the next two years.

Iesha joined the team in July 2023 as an Informatics Project Manager, after two years on the NHS Graduate Management Scheme specialising in health informatics. With a background in mathematics, statistics and informatics, Iesha has been providing enhanced analytic and data capabilities to a range of the team’s specialised projects.

Building on this, Iesha’s role will also involve developing data-driven and informatics approaches to specialised transformation, as well as hoping to support the implementation of digital tools and solutions such as CogStack and AI algorithms.

Giacomo recently joined the SLOSS team as a project manager, and will be overseeing a range of initiatives that aim to improve efficiency throughout South London. Previously, he worked at Oxfordshire County Council managing a programme that integrated their supported transport services.

Lauren joined the SLOSS team as a project manager, and will be overseeing the development, co-production and rollout of the South East London (SEL) renal cardiometabolic work. This will include running a pilot in each of the SEL boroughs where a multidisciplinary team  will support community case management for those with chronic kidney disease and additional cardiometabolic conditions. She will also look to grow the secondary care aspect of work for patients closer to end stage renal failure. Previously, Lauren has led ICB development and strategic work for South Yorkshire ICB as well as multiple NHS project evaluations.

Nina is a SLOSS Project Manager and the South London Lead for the NHS England opt-out blood-borne virus testing programme in Emergency Departments and the South London HIV Network. She has worked with clinicians across the region monitoring uptake and implementing improvements to HIV and hepatitis B and C testing. She brings her experience of working with stigmatised blood-borne viruses from her previous role as Hepatitis C Operational Delivery Network manager for South West London.

Heidi joined the team in March 2024 on secondment from the Civil Service, having previously spent time in both project and policy roles. Since then, Heidi has been appointed as a Project Manager to support the delivery of the Sickle Cell Improvement Programme in South London, working across networks, trusts, commissioners, primary care and voluntary organisations.

Alicia joined the team in March 2024, on secondment from the Civil Service, having spent time in programme and finance roles. She will be working with Lauren on the South East London (SEL) renal cardiometabolic project. Alicia will also be supporting in other areas on the SLOSS team.