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Lesley Goodburn, head of public involvement and engagement, NICE

Lesley Goodburn works as head of public involvement and engagement for the NICE. She leads a team of passionate people who ensure that patients and carers are involved in work of NICE, inputting into the guidelines, health tech and medicines appraisals as well as shaping and influencing the delivery of the working alongside people and communities strategy.

Lesley has worked in involvement, engagement and experience of care in healthcare for the last 17 years. She joined NICE from NHS England where she was experience of care lead for provider improvement and national clinical programmes. Previously she has worked, locally, regionally and nationally in commissioning, provider and policy work.

She has a personal passion to improve person and family centred care, and has developed many approaches to sharing staff, patient and carer experiences of care through storytelling using digital storytelling, creative arts, poetry and performance.