Freya Howle

CURE Programme Lead

Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership

Biography

Freya Howle, CURE Programme Lead, was appointed by Greater Manchester Cancer (the cancer programme of Greater Manchester’s devolved health and social care system) in February 2018 to lead the planning and implementation of a 6 month pilot of CURE at Wythenshawe Hospital.  Freya has continued in the CURE role to lead on the rollout of the tobacco addiction model across all of Greater Manchester’s acute hospitals.

Freya has over 10 years’ experience in the NHS across Birmingham & Manchester, from local hospital based roles to transformation management. Freya began her career as a ward clerk and receptionist and progressed through finance, governance and performance roles which eventually led to operational management positions at the Christie and Stockport NHS foundation Trust. Her in depth operational experience makes Freya well placed in a transformation role which has benefitted significantly from her experience of working in a hospital environment, in achieving NHS targets locally and nationally in addition to managing large administrative teams across multiple surgical services.

Freya moved from acute care based positions to the work as a Project Manager for the Macmillan Cancer Improvement Partnership (MCIP) where she designed and led an important piece of work with Cancer Champions based in Primary Care. This role ignited her passion to work in transformation that crosses NHS boundaries to impact across all of Greater Manchester, serving its people with the same quality of care and equity of access. She is committed to a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency approach to system change in order to meet the challenges of delivering safe and sustainable services for the people of Greater Manchester.