Piers was a Research Delivery and Programme Director at the National Institute for Health Research. He is an alumnus of the NHS Innovation Accelerator and Gateway to Leadership rogrammes, and an Honorary Associate Professor of Healthcare Innovation and Commercialisation at the University of Exeter. Piers has an MBA and previous start up and managerial experience in the private sector.
My first day’s paid employment after leaving school was through a nursing agency; a naïve 18 year old, thrust onto an NHS elderly care ward with a sum total of 3 hours ‘manual handling’ training.
