Kathryn Pugh
Strategic Consultant
Kathryn Pugh is a member of the Parent Carer Peer Support team. She is a parent with lived experience and has worked for almost 20 years to improve in children and young people’s mental health services, leading strategy development, programme implementation, and partnership working at local, regional and national levels.
She was Deputy Head of Mental Health in NHS England, leading the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Community Transformation Programme. She was the programme lead for CYP IAPT and worked on the development, implementation and system wide assurance of Future in Mind, the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health – Green Paper and the NHS Long Term Plan.
