Victoria Bates

Non-Executive Director
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Victoria began her career in the NHS as a nurse, midwife. She has over 25 years’ experience working within the health service and pharmaceutical industry in senior commercial and operational roles. Her experience includes developing and delivering strategic programmes across the UK and Europe, supporting life sciences collaborations with health systems to empower citizens and health professionals to improve health and wellbeing, and deliver outcomes that matter to patients. 

Victoria is an Independent Management Consultant for life sciences and health. She supports organisations to deliver greater value and build sustainable collaborative partnerships. She is an affiliate member of Swansea University, where she has supported Executive Education including value-based healthcare programmes and the MBA. Victoria is working with the Association for the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) to support strategic engagement with the NHS and developed and leads the ABPI patient involvement strategy. In addition, she provides ongoing consultancy to a range of pharmaceutical, MedTech, charity and healthcare organisations.