Alison Lathwell, NHS England
Alison Lathwell
Deputy Director Nursing & Midwifery
NHS England

Alison has worked across a range of healthcare settings within clinical and operational service leadership roles. She has significant programme management experience, leading complex, large-scale change for workforce and service redesign across the health and care sector.

As a Clinical Commissioning Group Strategy & Service Redesign executive, a Health and Wellbeing Board member and as Workforce Programme Director within an Integrated Care System (ICS), Alison has been driven by clinical roots to secure service and workforce transformation that enables health and care staff to deliver high quality, integrated care into the future. Regional NHSE Leadership roles have fostered a keen interest in working with ICS executive leaders to support systems OD and systems leadership development, particularly for embedding clinical leadership to drive service improvement.

Alison is a registered coach and is passionate about supporting an individual’s unbounded potential to fulfil their goals and enhance performance. As a Quality Improvement Fellow, she is committed to working with clinicians, staff and local people in co-production approaches which drive transformation for health and care improvement. Her commitment to high quality education, training and people development is underpinned by Fellow CIPD membership. She is now delighted to bring these skills and experiences to improvement for the Nursing & Midwifery professions.