Charlotte Williams

Charlotte is Chief Strategy & Improvement Officer at Mid & South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. She is a member of the Trust Board and leads on quality improvement and innovation, digital services, system and service redesign, clinical service strategy, System-wide transformation, and strategic intelligence. Within Mid and South Essex, Charlotte leads the MSE Anchor programme, working with colleagues across the public, voluntary, university and commercial sectors to add social value and positively influence the social, economic and environmental conditions in the area. Alongside Professor Tony Young, she leads the NHS InSites Test and Evaluation Programme starting across 10 NHS Trusts and is one of the hosts of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurship Programme, now entering its 7th year. Prior to her current role, Charlotte was Director of Strategy at the Trust, and MSE Group Director for Strategy and New Care Models. Charlotte joined the MSE Foundation Trust in August 2017 from UCLPartners Academic Health Science Partnership where she was Chief of Staff, working across discovery science, clinical research, and innovation. This included wealth creation and business development. She was seconded for two years to NHS England’s Strategy Group, within national policy and strategy development, including writing the Next Steps on the Forward View and heading up the NHS Vanguard Programme. Previously as the founding Executive Director of the London Cancer Integrated Cancer System, Charlotte helped drive major system change in the capital, after several years as a senior manager in acute hospital operations.

Charlotte is an Associate Editor at BMJ Leader, and works with the NHS Leadership Academy, the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and Bayes Business School to support future leaders in heath and care. She is an Action Learning Set Facilitator and an NHS Expert Commentator to the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, NICE’s Adoption and Impact Reference Panel, is an Assessor for the Health Foundation’s Q Community, and SBRI Healthcare. Charlotte is also Vice Chair of Ehlers-Danlos Support UK.