Karen established Deloitte UK’s Centre for Health Solutions in November 2011. The Centre is the independent research arm of Deloitte’s Life Sciences and Health Care (LSHC) practices, providing a trusted source of relevant, timely and reliable insights on emerging trends, challenges and solutions. The Centre combines creative thinking, robust research and industry experience to develop evidence-based perspectives on some of the biggest and most challenging issues facing our life sciences and healthcare clients to help them to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness and, importantly, benefit the patient.
Karen’ recent pharma focused reports include the AI In Biopharma Collection | Deloitte Insights; our 14th annual report Measuring the return from pharmaceutical innovation and Embedding environmental sustainability into pharma’s DNA. driving technology driven personalised and a more healthcare focused report – the Future of Health in Europe Healthcare in Europe | Deloitte Insights. The most recent insights are discussed in 10 predictions on life sciences and healthcare, Accelerating the Future: Life sciences and healthcare predictions 2030.
In addition to thought leadership reports Karen writes and curates others contributions to provide a weekly blog on topical issues affecting different parts of the health ecosystem and has produced a monthly podcast series Life Sciences Connect | Deloitte UK
Karen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Public Finance and Accountants and has extensive experience in leading research into healthcare and life-science issues in the UK and internationally. Karen was a Non-Executive Director (NED) at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust from 2011 to 2021, and since 2022 has been a NED at Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust.