Kathy Pritchard-Jones is chief medical officer for a new integrated cancer system, London Cancer (North and East), that is redesigning whole pathways of cancer care in partnership with patients, primary care, public health and the voluntary sector. The integrated pathways are delivered across 12 hospital providers in North and East London and West Essex who are working together in a different way to improve outcomes, patient experience and access to research and innovation.

She is one of the UK's foremost experts in childhood cancer, where she has extensive experience of partnership working to deliver complex care and enable research. She is professor of paediatric oncology at the UCL Institute of Child Health, and has been a consultant in the field for 20 years, running international clinical trials and a translational research laboratory focussed on kidney cancers of childhood.