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Good Help Award

Whether we want to improve our health, find work or get the most out of education, we need to feel confident to take action. And yet too often the services that are trying to help us undermine our confidence to act. This project aims to change that.
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Team

Christina Cornwell

Christina Cornwell

Interim Director, Health Lab

Christina is Interim Director of the Health Lab, leading Nesta’s work on nurturing and growing effective sources of support to improve people’s health and well being. Her current areas of focus include accelerating ideas, creating confidence, health as a social movement, and continuing to make the case for more person and community centred approaches to health.

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Tara Hackett

Tara Hackett

Assistant Programme Manager, Nesta Health Lab

Assistant Programme Manager, Nesta Health Lab

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Esther Flanagan

Esther Flanagan

Senior Programme Manager

Esther joined the Health Lab in January 2017 and is working in the social health team on a range of projects.

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Accelerating Ideas

We’re working with Big Lottery Fund to support eight highly promising ageing innovations to increase their reach and impact to many more people across the UK.
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Halima Khan

Halima Khan

Executive Director, Health Lab

Halima is Executive Director of the Health Lab, which aims to create a people powered health system. Health Lab brings together Nesta's practical work on health and ageing to achieve more impact. The aim of Health Lab is to create real change to improve people's health, through working towards a health and care system that is for people, by people and with people. Halima works with innovators across public services, civil society and business to develop and scale new responses to ageing and health. Current areas of focus include making the case for person and community centred care, rapid system change, mobilising communities, digital health and the Coalition for Collaborative Care.  Halima advises on health and ageing innovation and has published Five hours a day: systemic innovation for an ageing population and People Powered Health: Health for people, by people and with people.

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Christina Cornwell

Christina Cornwell

Interim Director, Health Lab

Christina is Interim Director of the Health Lab, leading Nesta’s work on nurturing and growing effective sources of support to improve people’s health and well being. Her current areas of focus include accelerating ideas, creating confidence, health as a social movement, and continuing to make the case for more person and community centred approaches to health.

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Tara Hackett

Tara Hackett

Assistant Programme Manager, Nesta Health Lab

Assistant Programme Manager, Nesta Health Lab

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Katy Rutherford

Katy Rutherford

Senior Programme Manager, Health Lab

Katy is a Senior Programme Manager in Health Lab. She currently manages Accelerating Ideas, a five year partnership between Nesta and Big Lottery Fund to support eight highly promising ageing innovation to scale their reach and impact to many more people across the UK.

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Sophie Kendall

Sophie Kendall

Programme Manager, Social Health

Sophie is a Programme Manager in the Health Lab.

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People Powered Results

People Powered Results supports front-line staff to collaborate and rapidly experiment with new ways of working that achieve real results for people and communities.
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Team

Halima Khan

Halima Khan

Executive Director, Health Lab

Halima is Executive Director of the Health Lab, which aims to create a people powered health system. Health Lab brings together Nesta's practical work on health and ageing to achieve more impact. The aim of Health Lab is to create real change to improve people's health, through working towards a health and care system that is for people, by people and with people. Halima works with innovators across public services, civil society and business to develop and scale new responses to ageing and health. Current areas of focus include making the case for person and community centred care, rapid system change, mobilising communities, digital health and the Coalition for Collaborative Care.  Halima advises on health and ageing innovation and has published Five hours a day: systemic innovation for an ageing population and People Powered Health: Health for people, by people and with people.

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Daniel Farag

Daniel Farag

Director, Health LabPeople Powered Results

Daniel leads our work on People Powered Results.

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Catherine Russell

Catherine Russell

Senior Programme Manager

Catherine is a Senior Programme Manager in the Health Lab at Nesta. Her work focuses on People Powered Results - a partnership approach to complex service transformation in health and care settings - working with leaders to empower front-line health and care practitioners to achieve meaningful change in 100 days. She has also been actively involved in the Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund, managing a portfolio of grants working with volunteers in innovative ways to improve outcomes for older people and those with long-term health conditions.

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Kate Simpson

Kate Simpson

Senior Programme Manager

Kate is a Senior Programme Manager in the Health Lab. Her main focus is working within the People Powered Results programme, supporting frontline health and social care teams to test out new methods to achieve change.

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Rajwinder Cheema

Rajwinder Cheema

Programme Manager, People Power Results

Raj joined Nesta in April 2016 as a Programme Manager for the People Powered Results team in our Health Lab.

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Charli Dickenson

Charli Dickenson

Programme Manager in the Health Lab

Charli is a Programme Manager in the Health Lab. Her main focus is working within the People Powered Results team, supporting frontline health and social care teams to test out new methods to achieve rapid change.

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Polly Redfern

Polly Redfern

Team Coordinator, People Power Results

Polly is a Team Coordinator for People Powered Results. She supports her colleagues on work with front-line health and social care teams who want to test out new methods to improve health outcomes within a 100 day time-frame.

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Kelly Evans

Kelly Evans

PA to Halima Khan - Executive Director, Nesta Health Lab

Kelly is the PA to Halima Khan.

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Robbie Semple

Robbie Semple

Programme Manager, People Powered Results

Robbie is a Programme Manager in the People Powered Results team at Nesta’s Health Lab. He is working on 100 day innovation programmes in Elective Care.

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Robin Speedie

Robin Speedie

Programme Manager, Health Lab

Robin is a Programme Manager in the Health Lab at Nesta. Her work focuses on People Powered Results - a partnership approach to complex service transformation in health and care settings - working with leaders to empower front-line health and care practitioners to achieve meaningful change in 100 days.

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Sophie Mckechnie

Sophie Mckechnie

Programme Manager, People Powered Results

Sophie is a Programme Manager in the People Powered Results team at Nesta’s Health Lab. She is working on 100 day innovation programmes in Elective Care.

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Louise Foreman

Louise Foreman

Programme Manager, People Powered Results

Louise is a Programme Manager in the Health Lab. Working within the People Powered Results programme, supporting frontline health and social care teams who want to work collaboratively and test out new methods to improve health outcomes within a 100 day time-frame.

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Elena Sabatini

Elena Sabatini

Programme Manager, People Powered Results

Elena is a Programme Manager in the Health Lab at Nesta, her work focuses on People Powered Results.

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