TEAM MEMBER Liam Sayers Profile forthcoming.
TEAM MEMBER Matt Finucane Matt is a Senior Programme Manager at Breaking Barriers and was a contributing author on the Digital Future for Health and Social Care and Buying the Future reports . He has led and contributed analysis to a great variety of BBI clients, including Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, and Fortune Global 500…
TEAM MEMBER Anushka Naidu Anushka is the Programme Executive at Breaking Barriers Innovations, working on various ‘Playbook Programmes’ including in Swale and West Yorkshire and supporting with care-led programmes such as CareTech and Bridging the Care Gap. She is also working on a needs assessment on serving and ex-service women who come into contact with…
TEAM MEMBER Andy Mather Partnership Director Andy is an experienced events and information professional with a background of successfully managing businesses in the UK and globally. He has worked for some of the leading organisations in the industry and in a broad variety of sectors including infrastructure, waste management/circular economy, housing, public sector procurement, political…
TEAM MEMBER Nicholas Werran Nicholas is Partnerships Director at BBI and, with Lord Patel and Jon Bashford, developed the initial vision behind the organisation 2015. He oversees the organisation’s national partnerships with Government and supporting the development and formulation of local partnership work across traditional sector boundaries. Nicholas also oversees BBI’s industry partnerships and takes…
TEAM MEMBER Dr Jon Bashford BBI Research Director Jon is an experienced senior manager, researcher and teacher with over 30 years’ experience working in health, social care and education in the public, independent and voluntary sectors. He is particularly known for his work on mental health, veterans, drug and alcohol use, offender health and equality…
REPORT AUTHOR Professor The Lord Patel of Bradford OBE Lord Patel, a social worker by background, initially worked in inner city Bradford and then established a number of Third Sector agencies working with those misusing drugs and those with mental health problems; later moving into academia working with a number of universities. He entered the…