Sue Summers
Assistant Director of Quality Assurance
NHS North West
Susan is the Assistant Director of Quality Assurance and Self Care at NHS North West Strategic Health Authority.
She started her career as a Registered Nurse and has an MSc in management Practice from Salford University Institute of Management and has extensive experience in both the private sector and the NHS.
Recent achievements include delivering the Working in Partnership Programme Self Care for You project across five spearhead PCTs; design and delivery of the NW Self Care Challenge; and has established the North West Self Care Forum, a regional network of PCT self care leads.
As co-facilitator of the NHS Next Stage Review Clinical Pathway Group for Long Term Conditions, she was instrumental in the work culminating in the report and recommendations that contributed to the North West Healthier Horizons vision and next ten year plan.
Susan was extensively engaged in the development of ‘Your health your way’, formerly known as the Patients Prospectus, and now available on NHS Choices; and also contributed to the development of the common core principles to support self care.
She has extensive networks at a regional, national and international level to support or lead various initiatives, and is currently the SHA lead for Triple Aim which is an international learning collaborative developed by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement to improve the health of a defined population, the experience of the individual and per capita cost. The programme currently involves 60 organisations worldwide, including 7 PCTs from the North West.
Recent achievements include delivering the Working in Partnership Programme Self Care for You project across five spearhead PCTs; design and delivery of the NW Self Care Challenge; and has established the North West Self Care Forum, a regional network of PCT self care leads.
As co-facilitator of the NHS Next Stage Review Clinical Pathway Group for Long Term Conditions, she was instrumental in the work culminating in the report and recommendations that contributed to the North West Healthier Horizons vision and next ten year plan.
Susan was extensively engaged in the development of ‘Your health your way’, formerly known as the Patients Prospectus, and now available on NHS Choices; and also contributed to the development of the common core principles to support self care.
She has extensive networks at a regional, national and international level to support or lead various initiatives, and is currently the SHA lead for Triple Aim which is an international learning collaborative developed by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement to improve the health of a defined population, the experience of the individual and per capita cost. The programme currently involves 60 organisations worldwide, including 7 PCTs from the North West.
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