Corporate support team

Sarah Turl

Associate Director - Operations

Sarah has over 30 years' experience in a variety of management roles, operating across the public and private sector including operational, sales and marketing; bringing a wide-ranging skillset to her role as Associate Director - Operations for Health Innovation Wessex.

Sarah is also actively engaged in the local third sector as a volunteer, and as an independent local councillor, engaging with a wide range of organisations to influence decisions affecting her local community.

Sam Kehoe-Coulter

EA to CEO & Strategic Programme Coordinator

Sam is Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer and joined Health Innovation Wessex in 2015.

Vicky Martin

EA to Deputy CEO & Strategic Programme Assistant

Helen Kelley

Business Support Assistant

Helen joined HIW in November 2024. She has over twenty years’ experience working in administration and five years in event management. Before joining HIW, she worked at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, where she had a career in administration. In a previous role she completed an Executive Assistant Diploma gaining qualifications in Advanced IT User, Advanced Administration, Advanced Business Documents, Managerial Administration, Executive Assistant Skills and Leadership Skills.

Helen first started her NHS career as a 999 Call Taker for South Central Ambulance Service during Covid. After a year of 999 call taking, she moved back to administration as a Patient Pathway Coordinator in Child Health for the Sleep Team at UHS. In this role she managed all aspects of the patient’s pathway from referral to treatment. During her time as a Patient Pathway Coordinator, she was successfully promoted to Speciality Team Leader moving on to manage six specialities which included 19 Patient Pathway Coordinators.

Helen has a passion for organising and events and hopes to see you at one of our events soon.

Divya Beri

Business Support Assistant

Divya has been working for the NHS since 2021 and specialises in project support, communications, visual design and business administration.

Divya graduated from the University of Brighton in 2022 with a degree in Psychology with Counselling Studies and have since been working on her personal professional development at UHS. She started off in UHS as the Wellbeing and TRiM administrator and was successfully promoted to Business Support Team Lead for the Organisational Development team where her business administrative support focused on leadership development, wellbeing, EDI and talent.

Whilst at UHS, Divya also mentored a student from Choices College, a college specialising in developing individuals with learning disabilities, and was given excellent feedback from the student and the college for her exemplary coaching and interpersonal skills.

Alongside her full time role, she also was recruited by the Smoke-free Site team to be their Communications Officer, a role in which she was able to utilise her internal communications and marketing skills by creating comprehensive communication plans, visual marketing materials, organising large scale trust-wide events and speaking with hospital patients and staff members to create case studies for UHS's internal and external websites and intranet.

Tracey Purvis

Interim Director of Finance

Tracey joined Health Innovation Wessex in March 2025 from NHS Shared Business Services.

Tracey has over 20 years’ experience in public sector finance having previously worked at an Acute Trust and the Audit Commission

Wendy Wilkins

Finance Support Assistant

Gosia Czeladzka

Finance Manager

Gosia joined Health Innovation Wessex as the Finance Business Partner in November 2024. She has a degree in International Finance and over 15 years' experience of working in finance for a range of organisations and charities, including YMCA Fairthorne Group, Hampshire Cultural Trust, Nuffield Health and Brendoncare. 

She brings a proactive approach and problem-solving abilities to her role, leveraging her skills and experience to drive financial excellence and support meaningful initiatives. Gosia is passionate about contributing to organisations dedicated to making a positive impact, and to making a difference through her work.

Charlotte Forder

Associate Director - Communications

Charlotte is the Associate Director - Communications for Health Innovation Wessex. She specialises in healthcare communications and joined the organisation at its inception from predecessor Wessex HIEC (Healthcare Innovation and Education Cluster), where she brought integrated marketing and stakeholder management expertise to healthcare quality improvement programmes.

Charlotte has over twenty five years’ experience in the communications and marketing sector, including programme dissemination within STEM outreach at the University of Southampton, national Content Manager for NHS Direct Online, and corporate communications consultancy.

Emma Williams

Associate Director - Strategic Partnerships and Business Development

Emma is our Associate Director for Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, working in a corporate role to lead the development of our customer offer and to seek new and exciting partnerships across health, social care, academia, voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE) and industry. She also leads on the development of our business growth strategy and business planning.

Emma has worked for almost 30 years within management and frontline roles across health, social care, and the voluntary and community sector. She has wide experience in leading large scale organisational change, service redesign, stakeholder engagement and building effective network relationships. 

Kathleen McCulloch

Senior Communications Officer

Kathleen is the Senior Communications Officer at Health Innovation Wessex. She began her career in a local government museums team, where she project managed the creation of their first museums collection website. Having worked on cultural online campaigns within the authority, Kat moved to the communications team where she felt very much at home, initially assisting with the rebuild of the council website and then working more strategically with an additional focus on media and crisis communications.

Kathleen's career in local government spanned almost thirty years, managing digital and social media campaigns, election coverage and advising on communications for major development projects. She brings a wealth of communications experience to Health Innovation Wessex.

Rachel Heard-White

Data Analyst and Quality Lead

Rachel has worked across the private, public, and charity sectors. After completing a bachelor’s degree in Bioengineering from the University of Sheffield, she worked for a neonatal ventilator manufacturer. She has also worked at the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) as a medical device specialist and with The Brain Tumour Charity.

Throughout her career, Rachel has applied her data analysis skills to uncover insights, and drive informed decision-making. This approach has led to the development of innovative projects, resulting in better treatments and enhanced patient experiences.

Rachel will continue her data work at HIW in her role as Data Analyst and Quality Lead.

Charlotte Silver

Communications Manager

Charlotte joined the organisation in August 2024, bringing with her eight years’ experience in NHS healthcare communications. Charlotte has worked across internal communications, external affairs, brand, press, social media and campaign marketing.

During her time with NHS Blood and Transplant Charlotte worked on the award-winning Organ Donation Law Change campaign and secured extensive press coverage to maintain blood stocks ensuring enough blood for patients. Charlotte developed and launched the first Living Kidney Transplant Scheme which funded community and faith organisations to positively engage black, Asian, mixed race and minority ethnic communities in living kidney donation. In addition to this she worked with significant community leaders and figures in local government to help address health inequalities.

She qualified with a BSc (Hons) degree in Business Management in 2012 followed by a MA in International Marketing and Communications both from the University of Surrey.

Charlotte is passionate about patient involvement in system design and ensuring patient communication is accessible. This has led her to become a patient advocate sitting on two governing bodies as a lay member – Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) and Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO). 

Her voluntary work led to her being awarded the Percy Lane Oliver Memorial Award from the Royal College of Pathologists. This was in recognition for her Services to Transfusions Medicine and she has also received the HSJ Patient Safety Award on behalf of the SHOT team she supported.