Amanda Pithouse

Amanda qualified as a mental health nurse in 1993 and spent much of her early clinical career in adult acute mental health in both inpatient and community services, holding a number of nursing leadership positions within South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

She also has an extensive academic background, completing the prestigious Florence Nightingale Foundation Leadership Scholarship, an MSc in Leadership and Healthcare Improvement at London Southbank University, and is also a trained Improvement Advisor from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

Amanda helped to lead Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Trust from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’ at their 2019 Care Quality Commission inspection and again in February 2022.