Hugh is Director of Policy and Research at the Health Foundation. Hugh leads the Health Foundation’s research and analysis on NHS and social care. He has published widely on NHS reform and policies to integrate health and social services in the UK and internationally. Hugh has a PhD in health services research and policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Before he joined the Health Foundation, Hugh was a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice at the University of California, San Francisco, and Berkeley. Hugh’s research in the US focused on health system approaches to addressing patients’ social and economic needs, like unstable housing and food insecurity. Before that, Hugh worked at The King’s Fund as Senior Policy Adviser to the Chief Executive, where he published research and analysis on a range of policy areas, and provided policy advice to the NHS and government. Hugh has also worked as a management consultant at PwC, working on health policy and improvement, and on Sir John Oldham’s Independent Commission on Whole Person Care.