Katy Saunders

Since joining Social Finance in 2019 Katy has led our innovative work around social investment in the health and social care sector. She pioneered a non-profit social investment model in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support which resulted in the launch of the highly successful Macmillan End-of-Life Care Fund. 

Katy works across Social Finance’s social investment portfolio and provides independent, expert advice to large charities on market analysis and strategic diversification of their business models. 

She is continuing to build Social Finance’s collaborative relationship with Macmillan, working with Integrated Care Board (ICB) Executive Teams to develop Community Transformation Funds. These multi-million-pound funds combine the expertise and energy of ICBs, national health charities and place-based organisations to improve all-age population health. 

Katy has deep expertise across all parts of the health and social care ecosystem, having worked both within the NHS and a large healthcare charity. She has previously held strategic, commissioning, innovation and operational leadership roles and has extensive experience of service transformation, cost benefit analysis, outcome measurement and how to successfully scale impact. This includes the development of an HSJ-nominated new model of care for heart failure, the prototyping and scale of the first Macmillan Cancer Navigator, and work to achieve ​‘most improved’ NHS Trust for patient experience.

Katy is a trustee of the Health Creation Alliance and a member of Women In Social Finance. 

Her work has been published in the HSJ, Healthcare Leader and in HMFA, the professional organisation for healthcare finance.