Katherine has been Chief Exec of ABC GP Federation, covering 44 practices in East Surrey and North West Sussex, for the last 2 years of a 22 year career in the NHS. Starting as a graduate trainee, she worked in acute management before running her own consultancy focussing on emergency care transformation in Trusts across London and the South East. It took her a while to understand that the real excitement is in primary care and not in hospital so she joined ABC and with her team has transformed a fledgling GP Federation into the key provider ready for the new post-commissioning world of local healthcare.