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Jude Mackenzie

Director of Communications and Engagement

Jude is filling the post of Director of Communications and Engagement on an interim basis while the changes in NHS commissioning are rolled out.   

She has 30 years experience in communications, starting as a journalist, then into public relations in the private sector.  She then moved into communications in the NHS where she stayed for ten years at regional and national level.  Her roles in the NHS included leading the project to change the corporate identity of the NHS to the consistent “blue box”.

Jude Mackenzie - Director of Communications and Engagement
Jude Mackenzie

From the NHS, Jude spent two years at Downing Street as the Prime Minister’s strategic adviser on public services communications. She was then Director of Communications and Involvement at the Commission for Social Care Inspection and from there she moved to the international charity Christian Aid to be Director of Advocacy and Communications.

She is now a communications consultant and pleased to be doing this interim role back in the NHS at a time when communications and engagement is playing such a central role in making sure that the NHS is even more focussed on designing health services around the needs of patients.

Jude is married and lives in Bromley. She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

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