[1] Previously she was Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Francis Crick Institute in London[2] where she was responsible for strategic management and operational leadership, as well as deputising for the Director, Sir Paul Nurse.
[3] In September 2016 the Trust was one of 16 acute hospitals named by the Department of Health as a global digital exemplar for the NHS.
From 2012 she was chief clinical office at South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group where she called for the suspension of Dr Paula Vasco-Knight, Chief Executive of South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust who was accused of nepotism.
[6] She was appointed a CBE in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours, and was named one of the 50 most inspirational people in healthcare by the Health Service Journal which described her as one of the new breed of clinical leaders spearheading transformation of the NHS.
[7] Sam Barrell is a non-executive director for Assura PLC[8] and British Land's Innovation Advisory Council.