Mr Steve Clarke Consultant Mental Health Nurse

About me

Steve Clarke is a Sciana member and Consultant Mental Health Nurse at the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust, where he leads work to improve the response to people in crisis and distress across Wales.

Steve is a senior mental health nurse and health care leader with extensive experience at strategic and operational levels across the UK health care systems. He has worked at the heart of policy making and was previously a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Health Committee, where he led reviews into health care reform.

Steve has held a range of strategic roles at a national level and was Deputy Director for Mental Health Policy and Strategy at the Department of Health, where he developed the first waiting time and access standards for mental health services in England. He has also worked in public health practice, education and on the spread of evidence-based practice across complex systems.

Steve has a master's degree in mental health service improvement, an honours degree in politics and recently completed an Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)-inspired improvement leaders programme.