Jo has over 25 years NHS experience as a Respiratory Physiotherapist in several London hospitals, as a Patient Safety Manager working in the Governance Team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has been responsible for investigating incidents; supporting clinical effectiveness, including mortality reviews; and quality improvement programmes such as delivering on CQUINS for sepsis, pressure ulcers, falls and VTE.

She has worked on regional and projects in the Oxford AHSN , including sepsis, mortality reviews, recruitment to Q, tracheostomies, NEWS2 and PEWS adoption, RESTORE2 in care homes and COVID Oximetry @ home. She is now the Associate Director for Innovation Adoption Strategic Programmes with a portfolio of national programmes including CVD, Health Inequalities, and Patient Safety at Health Innovation Wessex (formerly AHSN)