“We have been delighted to work with Linda on our People Powered Health programme. She has been an invaluable source of information on how contracts can deliver good outcomes and she helped our teams get ‘unstuck’ and really move forward. She has had a demonstrable and positive impact on our work – thank you Linda.”
Tina Strack, People Powered Health, Nesta
“It was a stimulating, positive experience, partnering with LH Alliances. Linda’s work around alliance contracting and our Experience Led Commissioning™ approach fit together like a glove. We both learnt a lot and helped each other improve our thinking. I look forward to partnering with LH Alliances in the future and would recommend working with Linda to others.”
Georgina Craig, National Programme Director ELC™
“ Linda is a calm and highly effective and professional facilitator; fun and easy to work with but very able to ask searching and challenging questions of the client – just what we needed. “
Sarah Richard, Project Manager, Newcastle Social Prescribing Project
“Linda helped to clarify the range and depth of development work needed to take forward our ambitions for achieving integrated care through an alliance framework. She has helped our thinking enormously.”
Denis O’Rourke, Lambeth Living Well Collaborative, Lambeth CCG
“Linda was great at constructive challenge and at getting an initially disparate group to discover that more integration and collaboration might be in everyone’s interest.”
Professor Chris Drinkwater, Chair NHS Newcastle West and President, NHS Alliance
“Linda was able to guide commissioners and partners to successfully take the next steps to coproduce commissioning. She was both aspirational and motivating as well as practical and pragmatic when circumstances required it. Linda was an excellent and industrious guide without whom I am certain the significant progress we made could not have been achieved .”
Nick Dixon, Commissioning Manager, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
“Linda’s expertise in alliance contracting has added huge value in our work at PwC with clients who are battling with the practicalities of large scale integration across health and social care. Her approach to creating new contracting models is both practical and realistic, her professional experience as a clinician connects her well with our CCG clients.”
Dr Jonathan Steel, Senior Consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers
“Linda’s report was very helpful. Alliance contracting is forming part of the Urgent Care strategy thinking.”
Dr Shane Gordon, Chief Office, North East Essex Clincal Commissioning Group
