Dr Tara French is passionate about genuine co-design and human rights based approaches to delivering sustainable transformation in social care and health, with a focus on equality and inclusion. She has an interdisciplinary background in academia, policy and practice where her work has spanned all sectors of health and social care (NHS, social care, third and independent, government, academia and industry partners).
Tara is known for her thought leadership in digital social care and health, where her collaborative work has led to the creation of the ‘Care Technologist’ role in Social Care, the co-production of human rights principles for digital health and care, and has contributed to driving forward the value of person-owned data and social care data in service design.
Tara’s expertise lies in leading large scale, complex transformation programmes using a combination of strategic, systems and service design, and change management approaches. She has worked predominantly within health and social care transformation having spent over a decade working with all sectors in Scotland on national and local programmes, mainly in the context of digital innovation and health and social care integration.
