Jane Lodge

About

Jane helps health and care organisations hear people properly and then change because of what they’ve heard.

She spent 24 years in non-clinical NHS roles, starting at Harrow Community Health Council and moving through patient advice, complaints and public engagement. She went on to senior leadership at NHS Sussex as Deputy Director for Working with People and Communities. There she built the structures that put public involvement at board level, led VCSE commissioning, and led Brighton & Hove’s Big Health and Care Conversation, which gathered more than 2,700 conversations about local health and care.

On our projects she brings stakeholder mapping, deliberative engagement, co-production and facilitation. Her particular focus is making sure people experiencing health inequalities aren’t left out of the room. Her work never stops at “what did people tell us?” She asks what the organisation now needs to do differently.

She now teaches healthcare leadership, commissioning and change management at Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

EXPERTISE: Public involvement and co-production · Deliberative engagement · Health inequalities · NHS commissioning and VCSE partnerships · Patient experience · Change management

QUALIFICATIONS: PGDip Healthcare Leadership and Commissioning (Distinction), Brighton and Sussex Medical School · PGCert Social Marketing (Distinction), University of Brighton · BA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Studies (First Class), University of Westminster

ACCREDITATIONS: Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

GOVERNANCE: Board Member, Southdown; Board Member, Worthing Theatres & Museum