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Chris McCann
Director of Communications Insight and Campaigns, Healthwatch England
Chris joined Healthwatch England in October 2019. Healthwatch was established by the Government in 2012 as an effective, independent, statutory public champion for health and social care. Its role is to gather and champion the views of users of health and social care services, in order to improve policy development and service delivery in the Health and Social Care sector in England.
Prior to joining Healthwatch Chris worked in central government at the Cabinet Office where he worked as Head of Strategy and Policy for GOV.UK and Head of Media and Strategic Communications at the Government Digital Service.
He has also worked at the Department for Business as Deputy Head of Strategic Communications and at the Department for International Trade as Head of Media Relations.
He has over 20 years of policy, strategy, communications and journalism experience starting out as a newspaper reporter Belfast before working in local government in Northern Ireland.
Prior to joining Healthwatch Chris worked in central government at the Cabinet Office where he worked as Head of Strategy and Policy for GOV.UK and Head of Media and Strategic Communications at the Government Digital Service.
He has also worked at the Department for Business as Deputy Head of Strategic Communications and at the Department for International Trade as Head of Media Relations.
He has over 20 years of policy, strategy, communications and journalism experience starting out as a newspaper reporter Belfast before working in local government in Northern Ireland.
