Ailsa Swarbrick is the head of mental health (perinatal, children and young people) at the Mental Health Team of NHS England and Improvement. She formerly served as director of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) National Unit, and also of Gender Services, in the Tavistock and Portman mental health NHS Trust in London. Ailsa previously worked for the UK Government Departments of Health, of Education and of Employment developing social policy, strategy and legislation. She is particularly interested in reducing inequalities, early intervention, developing relational and patient-centred approaches to service delivery, and in how to stimulate and evidence improvement in complex systems. She has a first degree in English and Russian and an M.Sc. in healthcare leadership (quality improvement) and is a Health Foundation Generation Q Fellow.