Dani is Executive lead for the Trust’s Strategic Plan, Vision 2030; an innovative approach to Trust Strategy which blended children, young people’s and families’ voices and needs, with staff needs and innovative Trust analytics. The approach won Gold at the HSJ Partnership awards 2024.
Dani leads the Trust’s range of health and care system partnerships and is the chief architect of Cheshire and Merseyside’s (C&M) children and young people’s system, and Executive lead for the Cheshire & Mersey Children and Young People’s ‘Beyond’ Transformation Programme.
‘Beyond’ is making measurable improvements to outcomes through transformation and new care models for children across C&M; driving prevention and early intervention, community and home-based care models, for example in children’s obesity, respiratory, mental health, diabetes, epilepsy and designing the national framework for health equity with Barnardo’s, the Institute for Health Equity and partners.
Dani has recently worked with the Integrated Care System leadership to successfully establish the Children and Young People’s Committee of the Integrated Care Board – bringing children and young people’s voices and needs to the forefront of system decision making. Dani is Executive lead for specialised networked care across the North West, leading the paediatric operational delivery networks in their drive to raise standards for children’s specialised services across the region.
Dani specialises in developing complex partnerships to improve patient care and is experienced in building systems and partnerships to create better outcomes for patients across primary and community care, mental health, acute trusts, local authorities and voluntary sector groups, building on nearly 20 years’ experience working in the majority of these different health and care settings.
Dani began her NHS life in technology and innovation, leading key initiatives such as establishing one of the largest scale telehealth models in the UK, following a BA Hons degree in Economics and an MSc in Health Care Ethics at the University of Liverpool. She achieved her Executive Leadership in Healthcare Award through the ‘Nye Bevan’ Programme in 2017.