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Rachel Surtees

Chief of Staff

Rachel Surtees is Chief of Staff at UCLPartners, working with our Chief Executive to lead strategy development and delivery. Rachel also takes a lead on all of our corporate services including finance, HR, education, as well as the look and feel of our internal and external communications, organisational development and governance.


Rachel has worked in strategy and change roles across the NHS and local government for 15 years. Before joining UCLPartners, Rachel worked at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust for 10 years working up to becoming Director of Strategy and Transformation. Here she harnessed her specialist knowledge of mental health services in the UK to drive meaningful innovations. After working with Haringey Council and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, she bought these skills to UCLPartners as our Director of Implementation for our adolescent mental health and climate work.