Hannah began her career as an assistant psychologist in a specialist forensic unit for adults with autism, before joining the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement in 2015. Since then, she has worked across a broad spectrum of quality improvement programmes, ranging from perinatal mental health to prisons, supporting services to improve the standard of care they provide. She has also been involved in the conducting of research, such as LP-MAESTRO: the evaluation of liaison psychiatry provision across the country, and national audits including the 2016-17 CQUIN, aiming to improve physical health monitoring for patients with first episode psychosis.
Between 2017 and 2018, Hannah spent a year leading the Royal College of Physicians and Faculty of Occupational Medicine’s joint occupational health accreditation scheme, SEQOHS, before returning to RCPsych and her love of mental health. She took up the role of Head of Quality and Accreditation in early 2021, and she currently oversees 11 quality networks, including the Accreditation Programme for Psychological Therapies Services (APPTS).
