ABOUT Transitional Compliance

Mary is a classically trained human geneticist. She has a strong history of academic research in cytogenetics, biochemical genetics and molecular genetics, with a particular interest in neurogenetics. As founder and former head of the NHS Neurogenetics diagnostic laboratory, she has extensive experience in strategic planning, funding, service development and delivery, and stakeholder communication. During the Covid pandemic, she acted as a senior scientific advisor to the DHSC in the UK Covid testing programme.

Now retired from mainstream diagnostics, she has joined Transitional Compliance as a clinical consultant.

Andrea is a state registered Clinical Scientist, a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologist and has 22 years’ experience of working at a senior level in clinical genomics in the UK National Health Service (NHS) and 8 years in genomics/genomics software in a commercial setting. She has a proven track record of managing and delivering services, building, directing, and motivating multi-disciplinary teams and introducing complex and disruptive new technologies. She has extensive experience of genomic data analysis, quality assurance, clinical safety (DCB0129/160), project and resource management and implementation. Having left full-time work in the private sector she now focusses on clinical work and consultancy with Transitional Compliance.

A keen gardener and interested in all things design, enjoys travel and visiting new places, cooking,
film and comedy.

Anneke is an HCPC registered Consultant level Clinical Scientist in the field of human molecular genetics and its application to the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases. She has many years of experience at a senior scientific leadership level having been the Director of the Regional Genetics Laboratories at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust before undertaking a national role at Health Education England as Director of the Genomics Education Programme. During the Covid pandemic, Anneke was seconded to Test and Trace /UK Health Security Agency as a Scientific Advisor for the Covid testing programme. These roles have resulted in a wealth of experience spanning scientific strategy and leadership, management of change, research, testing strategies, quality management to ISO 15189 standards, and education and training of the multiprofessional NHS workforce.

Transitional compliance is a collaboration of clinical and biomedical scientists, led by Stephen Simpson, ex-RAF, who has 30 years of experience in engineering and Healthcare.

The clinical team has worked across the last 4 decades where the advances in their scientific fields have been exponential.

The biomedical scientist cohort comprises of ex-military multi-disciplined BMS from all three services that are used to working under pressure in some of the most uncomfortable environments worldwide.

They have the capability to work within and manage all the departments of pathology, computer system validation projects, and electronic patient record projects amongst others, and have experience across compliant change and transformation in what is an increasingly technological landscape.

All of our consultants are validation SMEs and have had exposure to digital and AI products.