Kate Jarman

Director of Corporate Affairs, Milton Keynes University Hospital

Kate Jarman is director of corporate affairs at Milton Keynes University Hospital and co-founder of Flex NHS, a movement to promote and enable flexible working in the NHS.

Kate founded Flex NHS with Aasha Cowey, digital transformation programme manager at NHS South Central and West CSU in late 2018. Kate and Aasha have teamed up with social media influencers and grass-roots campaigners to make flexible working more accessible to the 1.5 million staff working in the NHS. Flex NHS champions flex for all, and promotes a better work/ life balance as a vital part of recruiting and retaining staff now and in the future.

In 2020 Kate founded NHSProjectS, a campaign to tackle racism and sexism and improve the personal safety of women working in the NHS.