Candace joined The King’s Fund from the NHS where she was Director of Strategy in a large acute trust. Candace joined the NHS in 1987 and held a number of senior management and board level roles within NHS providers and commissioners.

She worked on strategy at the Department of Health between 2000 and 2006. During this time she led work on the configuration of services, future health care trends, workforce and the patient experience.

She contributed to the White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, as well as Keeping the NHS Local and the Wanless Review. She also led a major modernisation initiative for the Modernisation Agency, Hospital at Night (2003−4). Candace holds a Masters degree in Health Economics and Health Policy from Birmingham University. Her first degree was from Cambridge University, where she read Natural Sciences.

Candace worked on a part time secondment to The King’s Fund from 2007, becoming Deputy Director of Policy in early 2009. She was one of the authors of the recent report from The King’s Fund on polyclinics, Under One Roof.