Mary is Head of Policy for Healthcare Inequalities Improvement at NHS England, where she has oversight of policy development and delivery on a range of strategic health inequalities priorities including health inequalities legal duties, the Core20PLUS5 approach, and utilising data to inform practical action and improvement.

Mary has spent over 17 years working across a range of policy and programme leadership roles in the NHS, local government and the voluntary sector. Mary’s experience spans partnership working, strategy, service reconfiguration, large scale change, and the integration of health and social care, as well as a range of policy briefs, including child poverty and children’s social care.