Ella Nuttall holds an MSc in Health Psychology from UCL, specialising in behaviour change. Upon graduation, she joined an award-winning medical education agency, applying academic behaviour change theories to real-world scenarios. Ella then spent four years at KPMG, advising top global pharmaceutical companies within their Healthcare and Lifesciences Strategy team, focusing on corporate strategy development, launch and operational strategies, and stakeholder engagement across various therapeutic areas.

At the start of the Covid pandemic, Ella joined the London Nightingale Hospital’s Training and Education team. Since then, she has worked within the NHS, supporting a wide range of national, regional, and local programmes. For more than two years, Ella led a national initiative to implement the first-ever national digitised proficiency framework for adult critical care nurses, spanning 60 NHS Trusts across the UK. She now leads NHS Elect’s digital transformation offer, in addition to supporting exec teams at national, regional, and Trust levels in shaping their organisational strategies.