Change Partners

Our Change Partners are a group of experienced improvement and change experts. They are embedded across Cardiff and Vale UHB and are here to help you make change happen. They are each assigned to one of Cardiff and Vale UHB's Clinical Boards.

What are Change Partners?

They are a single point of contact to act as a conduit between the Shaping Change function and clinical boards to identify immediate priority-led, change support needs and create ongoing local capability. Match need against service directory and either directly support, arrange training or sign-post to other support services.

What Change Partners offer

  • A single point of contact into a range of change support services; coordination of those services to support clinical board delivery of priorities​.

  • Identification of what is needed to create internal capability to deliver improved services​.

  • Improvement in the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of those delivering projects and programmes​.

  • Through good governance and reporting, instilling an organisational culture of excellence and professionalism in programme and project management that delivers successful outcomes​.

  • Encourage and enable clinical board staff to create and make improvements​.

  • A selection of those services that best meet the need of the patients and other beneficiaries, deliver against priorities and make best use of time, effort and other resources​.

  •  Support to create change communities that enable effective improvement activities to the benefit of patients and staff.

Our Change Partners

  • Kate Blower

    Clinical Diagnostics and Therapies Clinical Board Change

    Service Improvement Manager

  • Molly Baker

    Medicine Clinical Board

    Service Improvement Manager

  • Katie Griffiths

    Katie Griffiths

    Mental Health Clinical Board

    Service Improvement Manager

  • Lisa Williams

    Primary, Community and Intermediate Care Clinical Board

    Service Improvement Manager

  • Lee McQuaide

    Specialist Services Clinical Board

    Service Improvement Manager

  • Sue Hostler

    Surgery Clinical Board

    Change Hub Portfolio Manager

  • Jade Barber

    Women and Children Clinical Board

    Project Manager