As Chief Executive, Anna leads a growing team working with places and leaders across the country.
Anna is an expert in collaborative public services and organisational change. She is a lead facilitator on Ignite, a SOLACE/Collaborate system leadership programme for local authority Chief Executives, and on the NHSE ICS Population Health and Place Development programme (2021-22). Anna convenes coalitions of diverse local partners and actors to develop new place-based strategies and collaborative approaches to public services, organisations and leadership.
Prior to joining Collaborate, Anna was Director of Policy for the London Borough of Lambeth, where she helped lead strategy and innovation with a focus on building new models of collaborative public services. She was also a Special Advisor in two government departments, and worked on the Lyons Inquiry into Local Government for HM Treasury and for the New Local Government Network (now New Local).
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https://collaboratecic.com/who-we-are/our-team/anna-randle/
James Bullion joined CQC as Interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care and Integrated Care in June 2023.
James was previously Executive Director of Adult Social Services at Norfolk County Council. He was also a member of the Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board.
As president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) in 2020-21, James supported and advocated for people using care during the pandemic. He has also been the ADASS representative supporting the development of our new assessments of local authorities.
James has been working with the Department of Health and Social Care on their plans to ensure people can leave hospital when they are well enough to do so.
Before joining the NHS Confederation, Helen worked for eight years in local Healthwatch, starting as a project coordinator and progressing to chief executive across two local Healthwatches in West Yorkshire. Much of her role in the last few years with Healthwatch Kirklees and Healthwatch Calderdale focused on developing the relationship between local Healthwatch and the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership. Prior to working with Healthwatch, she held other roles in the voluntary and community sector in advocacy and advice work, particularly supporting people with mental health problems
In her current role as assistant director, she is responsible for supporting NHS Confederation members across the North West of England, working particularly with acute and integrated trusts, and Integrated Care Systems. She also leads on the NHS Confederation’s support offer around place-based working. All our members have a role to play in working collaboratively with partners in their geography to integrate services, offering opportunities for improve experience and efficiency, and refocusing health provision on prevention and early intervention.
Helen is passionate about doing work for NHS Confederation that puts people at the centre of health and care delivery, reduces the gaps between services, and empowers people to speak out and lead in their care. She enjoys the opportunities to transform the relationship between communities and public services, and to think about how we deliver, not just aspire to, greater upstream intervention in health and social issues.
A modern European languages graduate, her professional background is in health politics; she has worked at all levels of politics – local, national and in the European Parliament. She ran the campaigns and parliamentary department for a UK health charity and has also worked in the NHS as a manager ensuring that the voice of patients and public was heard in all decisions that the organisation took. Since 2010, Catherine has led the company. Most of her time is spent designing and running leadership programmes for senior leaders and clinicians in the health and social care sector, often through using complex simulations and case studies. She works with the NHS Leadership Academy on programmes to develop NHS Directors and Chief Executives and with a variety of clients and partners such as the University of Manchester, University of Birmingham, The Royal College of Nursing, the Florence Nightingale Foundation, the Faculty for Leadership and Management and Health Education England.
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https://www.edenandpartners.co.uk
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linkedin.com/in/catherineeden
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@EdenPolitics
Rachael has worked in social care for over 30 years. She is a qualified social worker and has worked in a wide range of roles both in the voluntary and for profit sector. She began her career in social care as a kitchen assistant in an older people’s home and has also worked as a registered manager and as operations director in services for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism.
She worked for Birmingham People First (the self-advocacy organisation of people with learning disabilities) and then spent 13 years working for the social care regulator in a number of different posts. She began her time there as an inspector but her final post at CQC was as Head of Adult Social Care Policy leading on strategy, regulatory frameworks and policy. She joined Dimensions in 2019 as our Managing Director and in 2022 became our CEO.
Rachael is passionate about ensuring people have choice and control over their lives and delivering high quality support. She is strongly committed to involving and engaging the people we support and their families, to raising the profile of social care across government, and to enabling colleagues to have great careers at Dimensions.
