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Angela Watson

Angela has spent 35 years working in and with the NHS in senior clinical, operational, leadership, and service improvement roles. Her work has been published in the clinical press. She is no stranger to healthcare because she helped run it.

Angela knows how hospitals actually work. She understands the pressure leaders and clinicians carry. She understands how decisions get made.

She is not naive about the system.

She’s also a carer for her partner, Mark, who woke up on July 22nd, 2023, with excruciating backpain, and now lives with chronic pain. From that day on their lives changed.

This is healthcare from the other side.

The car parks.

The signage.

The waiting lists.

The user unfriendly policies and design.

Living with chronic pain changes how you experience everything. It strips away capacity for friction. It sharpens attention to what is missing, unclear, inaccessible, or unnecessarily hard before a patient has even been seen.

Angela now works at the intersection of these two perspectives. Insider and outsider. Professional and carer.

Not to blame.

But to expose what’s invisible.

To ask better questions about access.

And to show how care might be designed for people who are already at their limit.

Angela is an independent consultant, executive coach, teacher, speaker, and the other half of the lovely Mark.

Alongside this work she has reached the highest level of a precision sport, leading without force, training without dominance, and communicating clearly with a team mate who doesn’t speak Human.

Clarity is not a skill.

It is how trust is built.

And how anxiety is reduced.

THE DIARY OF A CARER IS A COLLECTION OF REFLECTIONS, OBSERVATIONS, STORIES, AND INSIGHTS WRITTEN BY ANGELA.