Kate Petts

Kate Petts is Chief Transformation Officer at UCLPartners, where she leads programmes that deliver large-scale transformation and sustainable, measurable change across health and care systems. Her work focuses on integrating proven solutions into whole-pathway and system-wide change, helping healthcare providers and commissioners reduce fragmentation, improve patient outcomes and build more sustainable services for the future.

Kate has extensive experience in both operational and strategic leadership roles across the NHS in London and the East of England. Beginning her career as a critical care physiotherapist, she combines frontline clinical insight with expertise in transformation, service redesign and system improvement. She is passionate about translating innovation into practice at scale, ensuring that evidence-based approaches are embedded sustainably across pathways and organisations to achieve lasting impact for patients, populations and the wider health and care system.