Miss Lauren Priest

Lauren qualified as a Physiotherapist in 2013. She began her career working in a social enterprise focused on community healthcare in Bristol. She moved into the NHS in 2015 working at Guys and St Thomas’s hospital and served in a range of roles across the trust in the three years that she worked there. Subsequent to that, she worked in one of the leading private physiotherapist practices in London taking on managerial responsibilities for one of its flagship clinics. Lauren is currently a Band 7 lead in acute medicine at St George's hospital working across the emergency department and acute admissions unit. This experience has developed extensive resilience and flexibility to leading a team in a fast paced and high-pressured environment.

Contributing to service improvement and quality care work has always been a particular passion alongside her clinical work. She has completed further education in service improvement in healthcare and medical leadership.
Lauren is currently working alongside her medical colleagues on patterns of readmissions, to look for trends and informative correlations to aid making positive changes to practices in an AMU setting.

Reason for applying for the scheme

Lauren has aspirations to work in a role that can help provide substantial positive change within the NHS healthcare setting. She wants to utilise the experience that she has gained from working in frontline healthcare, to help contribute to service and pathway changes at a national level. She hopes that the clinical fellowship scheme will allow her to enhance her understanding of NHS systems and policy development at both regional and national levels. Lauren hopes that the fellowship will allow her to continue to build upon her current interests as well developing other skills that are fundamental in cultivating positive changes within the NHS and ultimately delivering better outcomes for patients and key NHS stakeholders.