Deborah has held the appointment of Deputy Director in NHS England since June 2020. Her transformation portfolio includes Operational and Service Management, Informatics and Workforce Development, with particular emphasis on Pharmacy, Nursing and Midwifery. Prior to taking up the role in NHS England, Deborah spent three decades in British Army uniform, with the last 24 years in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Her last role as a Colonel being the Deputy Commander of the Joint Hospital Group, approximately 2500 military personnel working across the NHS when not on operations or exercise. In 2015 she left a year’s secondment at the University Hospital Birmingham, as Programme Manager for the recently established Genomics Medicine Centre, to take up the role of Commander Medical of the NATO headquarters in Norfolk Virginia, where she managed the input of 29 nations to the development of a multi-national medical informatics system, amongst other transformational projects.