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Sue is the Director of Nursing and Patient Care at Yorkshire and the Humber Strategic Health Authority. This post combines a clinical leadership role with strategic development in a broader agenda to improve health and social care delivery through partnership working. Sue leads on services for children and young people; mental health and older people; reducing health care associated infection; improving patients’ and public involvement in health care; economic partnerships and research and development. Sue has recently been on secondment to the DH as Acting Deputy CNO with a lead on public health nursing issues. Prior to this role, Sue worked in West Yorkshire SHA, and in other Health Authority, PCT and academic roles in Yorkshire and London. She has an MSc in Nursing and a PhD in Health Services Research and is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Huddersfield.
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