Kate Silvester BSc MBA FRCOphth

Kate Silvester BSc MBA FRCOphth originally trained and practised as an ophthalmologist. In 1994 she retrained as a manufacturing systems engineer with Lucas Industries. Kate spent seven years in management consultancy transferring manufacturing principles to service industries such as banking, airlines and healthcare. In 1999 she rejoined the NHS as a programme manager for the Cancer Service Collaborative. Kate joined the NHS Modernisation Agency in April 2001 and worked on many NHS redesign programmes. Subsequently Kate developed the Osprey program (a strategic health authority sponsored initiative training experienced healthcare staff in the skills and techniques required to engineer and design healthcare processes. Kate’s specific areas of expertise are in the design and management of organisational systems to improve patient flow across whole healthcare systems and matching the variability in demand and capacity to eliminate queues. Kate has been appointed as an Honorary Senior Lecturer with the University of Warwick. Currently she is working with the Health Foundation.