Rosa Waddingham

Executive Director of Quality (Nursing)

Rosa joined the ICB’s executive team from her role as Director of Nursing at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, having previously held the same role at the CCG. She has had a varied career across different settings, including work in a third sector charity supporting the military internationally. Since returning to the UK in 2015, Rosa has held a number of roles within the Nottinghamshire system, all focused on achieving quality through partnerships, developing and embedding person-centred care, and providing system leadership.

Rosa is an Honorary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University and works closely with the Florence Nightingale Foundation and NHS Professionals, supporting advisory boards. She is passionate about people and person-centred approaches to care, and has undertaken executive leadership roles focused on learning disabilities, autism, Down’s syndrome, SEND and safeguarding. Rosa also supports a number of networks and mentoring programmes and works with Girlguiding UK to support and empower girls and young women.

In her current role Rosa is the ICB’s Caldicott Guardian and has executive lead responsibility for Quality improvement methodologies and data driven risk-based interventions; Commissioning for quality; Clinical Governance/Quality strategy; Coproduction; Patient experience and complaints; Patient safety; Continuing healthcare; Infection Prevention Control; Local Maternity and Neonatal System / Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership; Children and young people (aged 0 to 25); Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (aged 0 to 25);  Safeguarding (all-age), including looked after children and care leavers; Learning disability and autism (all-age); and Down syndrome (all-age).