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A leading UK health policy expert, Ed has advised at the highest level within government, NHS bodies and healthcare providers. He was the longest ever serving Special Adviser at the UK Department of Health & Social Care, serving as policy adviser to the Health Secretary from 2013-2018. In this time Ed worked under two Prime Ministers and completed Yale University’s System Leadership Programme for NHS leaders.

Ed then moved to the UK Foreign Office as Chief of Staff to the then Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt MP, before going back to the private sector and consultancy in 2019. In 2020 Ed returned as a senior adviser to NHS England & Improvement on its early response to COVID-19, including the NHS’s nationally commissioned support from independent healthcare providers. In 2021 Ed became co-founder and Senior Partner of Newmarket Strategy, a consultancy dedicated to improving access to health innovation by providing strategic advice and technical support to the healthcare, life sciences and health tech sectors.

At Newmarket, Ed advises a global investment bank, major private equity investors, international medical device companies and health technology suppliers on market access, regulation and commercial strategy