Until most recently, Lesley spent the last decade as Clinical Lead for Digital Health & Care with the Scottish Governments and for NHS Education Scotland’s Digitally Enabled Workforce programme.
Lesley has had a lifelong interest in informatics and particularly its criticality in driving improvement and has held a number of related national and organisational executive positions. She has and continues to work with various organisations at a UK and global level developing digital initiatives including establishing standards for digital practice, competencies, strategy and workforce development about which she has widely published.
Lesley is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, the Winston Churchill Trust and the British Computer Society. Lesley is also an experienced non-executive/Trustee including past Chair of the Board of Bield, one of the largest Housing Association in Scotland. In 2018, she was named Scottish Digital Impact Leader and Digital Health’s UK Digital Team Leader of the year and awarded an OBE in 2020 for her services to healthcare.