Karen Taylor. IPFA, OBE, Director, Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
Karen established Deloitte UK’s Centre for Health Solutions in November 2011. The Centre is the independent research arm of Deloitte’s Public Sector Health and Life Sciences and Health Care (LSHC) practices, providing a trusted source of relevant, timely and reliable insights on emerging trends, challenges and solutions. The Centre combines creative thinking, robust research and industry experience to develop evidence-based perspectives on some of the biggest and most challenging issues facing our life sciences and healthcare clients to help them to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness and, importantly, healthcare outcomes.
Most of our research reports over the past few years have focussed on how innovation and advanced technologies are transforming care delivery and people’s experience of providing and receiving care. Her most recent healthcare reports include: The future of diagnostics in Europe| Deloitte UK; a report on the future of healthcare in Europe Healthcare in Europe | Deloitte Insights report and her latest thought leadership comprises a series of 10 predictions of what the health ecosystem might look like in 2030 - Accelerating the Future: Life Sciences and Healthcare Predictions 2030 | Deloitte UK.
In addition to thought leadership reports, Karen writes and curates others contributions to provide a weekly blog on topical issues affecting different parts of the health ecosystem Thoughts from the Centre | Deloitte UK and has produced a number of monthly podcasts Life Sciences Connect | Deloitte UK. Karen also presents regularly at sector conferences and webinars.
Karen is a member of the Institute of Chartered Public Finance and Accountants and has extensive experience in leading research into healthcare and life-science issues in the UK and internationally. Prior to joining Deloitte, Karen was the Health Value for Money Audit Director at the National Audit Office for 13 years, where she reported to the UK’s Committee of Public Accounts on the economy, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of government spending on health and social care. Karen was a Non-Executive Director (NED) at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust from 2011 to 2021, and since 2022 Karen has been a NED at Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust where she chairs the Audit Committee.