Ruth provides strategic leadership for the development and delivery of national programmes and approaches that enable the application of quality improvement and large scale system redesign methodology to increase the pace and scale of improvement across health and social care in Scotland. She is passionate about ensuring improvement is up the middle of the big system performance challenges alongside the need to combine a focus on both redesign and continuous improvement.

Her remit includes the world renowned Scottish Patient Safety Programme which now sits alongside a wide range of other national improvement programmes focused on issues as diverse as reducing elective waiting times, access to primary care, implementation of Hospital at Home, commissioning community solutions, and redesigning services for individuals with substance use and mental health problems.

Before joining Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Ruth worked in the Scottish Government providing strategic leadership for a portfolio of programmes focused on delivering sustained improvements across dementia and mental health services. Prior to this she held a range of senior management positions in health and social care around the UK. Ruth started her career in the NHS as a National Management Trainee. She has a Masters in Public Administration from Warwick Business School and a Masters in Leadership (Quality Improvement) from Ashridge Business School. She is also a Health Foundation Generation Q fellow and a Health Foundation Sciana fellow.

Matt is responsible for supporting the local system including Community Planning Partnerships, Local Government, Health and Social Care Partnerships, GP clusters, Territorial NHS Boards, Spatial Planning and Place-making, Inclusion health, Racialised inequality and Gender-based violence.

Matt has significant experience in local and national government, and public health. He was appointed as Head of Communities and Local Partners upon the formation of Public Health Scotland.

Areas of responsibility include public mental health, reproductive, maternal and child public health, sexual health analytics, social care, alcohol, drugs, gambling, tobacco and vaping, diet, healthy weight, physical activity, primary care, women’s health, chronic conditions, cancer analytics and adult screening. 

Richmond has significant experience from NHS, academic and private sectors. He is a registered Mental Health Nurse and Doctor of Philosophy in Information Science. He is also non-executive director and trustee at the Scottish Library & Information Council.

Pamela is responsible for health and work, poverty, social security, community wealth building, regional and local economies, transport, environment, housing and climate challenge.

Pamela has worked in local government focusing on economic development and poverty. Prior to joining PHS she was on a secondment working alongside Scottish Government and COSLA  to transform the employability support system in Scotland.