Caroline Shaw CBE, the chief executive officer at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS FT is to join health tech supplier Evergreen Life this month.
Following leading the trust out of ‘special measures’ Caroline is set to join the health and wellbeing company as chief operating officer.
The company provides a solution said to bring together health information and GP records into one place, and support appointment bookings and prescriptions. It also provides tools to track diet, fitness, metabolism, skincare and happiness.
Commenting on the appointment, Caroline said: “I can honestly say that my time at QEH has been the most challenging, yet by far the most rewarding of my career to date. I could not be prouder of what team QEH has achieved and how far we have come over the last few years. After almost four decades of service to the NHS, I now feel ready to look to my next and likely final stage of my career and I know now is the right time to end my chapter at QEH and move on to make a positive difference to people and healthcare in a different way.
“I am really excited that I have been asked to join a forward-thinking health and wellbeing company called Evergreen Life which is all about using digital technology to innovate NHS services and improve people’s personal healthcare and support people to stay well and healthy, which I am hugely passionate about. After over three-and-a-half memorable years, now is the right time for a new and exciting chapter in my career which will see me being based back at home in Manchester.
“I leave with so many fond memories of my time at QEH and this organisation and local community will always have a very special place in my heart. There is strength in depth at QEH and I know the best is yet to come for Team QEH. I look forward now to watching QEH fly as an organisation as it pursues its journey to ‘Good’ and ‘Outstanding’ and I also look forward to QEH securing the new hospital it deserves.”
HTN last reported on Evergreen Life in April 2022, when University College London Hospitals NHS FT were awarded a grant of £685,316 to test in clinical practice a new proof-of-concept machine learning algorithm designed to improve cancer care. The new algorithm, tested in collaboration with Durham University and Evergreen Life, is said can ‘accurately’ predict liver and kidney function levels in cancer patients.
