Samantha Ryder

Head of Infection Prevention & Safety

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Biography

Sam Ryder qualified in 2004 as a Registered Adult Nurse and has experience of working across Acute, Community and Mental health settings. During her career Sam has worked, in acute medicine, critical care, infection prevention and control, physical health in mental health and clinical education. Sam is extremely committed to reducing health inequalities and improving the health and wellbeing of those suffering from mental health illnesses. As part of her current role she is leading on the implementation of the Treating Tobacco Dependency Programme within LSCft alongside other programmes to improve the health and wellbeing of people using LSCft services.