Mary-Ann Bruce

Mary-Ann joined Niche from Mazars LLP where she lead the Health Advisory team. Mary-Ann trained as a registered general and sick children’s nurse in London, and a Health Visitor in the North East. She has over 30 years NHS experience predominantly in the community, mental health and primary care space and associated services. She also has an MBA.

Mary-Ann is best known for her work on Mortality Governance – since the high-profile publication of the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust report she has been working and liaising with over 60 NHS trusts on this subject. This includes speaking widely on governance, Learning from Deaths approaches, thematic reviews of patient safety learning and system wide reviews of deaths to inform joined up learning. 

Her publicly available work includes a system-wide Structured Judgement Review across Leicestershire. Mary-Ann was also a key member of the CQC Expert Advisory Group for the subsequent CQC report commissioned by the Secretary of State – Learning, Candour and Accountability following her work at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.