Zoe is the Programme Director within the Strategic Programme for Primary Care working to support the National Director with governance, planning, monitoring, coordination and delivery of the Strategic Programme. Zoe provides oversight, leadership and direction to the SPPC Programme Management Office.
Zoe is also the Director of Primary Care and the Programme Director for the Primary Care Hub in Public Health Wales (PHW). Her PHW portfolio spans dental public health, primary care prevention and primary care transformation. She works to ensure alignment and synergy across the Primary Care Hub and SPPC Programmes of work to maximise resources to support the delivery of the Primary Care Model for Wales through a public health lens.
Zoe has held a number of posts within NHS bodies in South Wales over her 23 years of NHS service which also included a secondment to a partnership post in Bridgend County Borough Council. The focus of her career to date has centred on multi-agency partnership working, predominantly in primary and community care services, strategic planning and service redesign/improvement, primary care contractor and third sector commissioning, programme/project management, monitoring/evaluation across the full range of statutory and local health planning teams. Prior to joining the NHS in 2000, Zoe worked in Tanzania for three years teaching A level Biology and providing logistics support to a WHO emergency food relief operation. Her time in Tanzania sparked her interest in public health and healthcare delivery.