Isabel is head of policy and analysis at NHS Providers, the membership organisation for hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services that treat patients and service users in the NHS. She jointly leads a team of around 30 policy, public affairs and analysis professionals, focused on helping to shape the system in which trusts operate. Isabel oversees the organisation’s finance, workforce, ambulance and operational performance policy portfolios as well as its survey and analysis programme. Prior to joining NHS Providers, she worked for a leading health policy communications consultancy and held a number of patient advocacy and policy roles in London and Edinburgh.