Lizzie Tuckey

	Medbelle position	Chief Commercial Officer
	Titles	MBBS, BA

Profile

Lizzie joined Medbelle as an already accomplished physician and innovative strategic planner. After completing post-graduate training in surgery in the NHS, she wanted to have an impact on improving patients’ lives on a larger scale. With experience as an Assistant Director at KMPG Healthcare, Medical Director at Bupa, and Director of Market Access GenesisCare, Lizzie has led projects increasing and diversifying surgeon networks, creating doctor groups, and increasing patient access to new and innovative treatments, like a new groundbreaking genetic test used to predict recurrence in early-stage breast cancer. Lizzie’s ambitious goals for the healthcare industry make her a perfect fit in Medbelle. Her clinical expertise and leadership will be invaluable with our plans to further expand our expert surgeon network, reach more patients to benefit them with our centralised one to one patient care support, and improve the standard of healthcare for all.

Responsibilities

Identifying and fostering partnerships across the healthcare landscape that champion value-based healthcare
Working within the leadership team to set strategy and help drive growth to reach more patients
Utilise expertise in cosmetic surgery to review content to provide the highest quality treatment information

Lizzie in her own words

What motivated you to join Medbelle and the healthcare industry in general?

I wanted to work in an industry that helped people and my grandfather influenced me to become a doctor, he was a specialist in exploration medicine and designed equipment that enabled people to survive in extreme conditions.

I was drawn to Medbelle because its founders look at healthcare differently from clinicians unconstrained by tradition they want to build the world’s first digital hospital and that means using technology to support all aspects of care, triaging and connecting patients to the best doctors, booking appointments, selecting hospitals, tracking and monitoring outcomes of surgery. By using this approach Medbelle will be focused on incentivising great outcomes and high quality.

Best memory with a patient or in the industry

My best recent memory was being a clinician volunteer in the first wave of the pandemic. Everyone was stuck at home adjusting to a new life on the sofa and I was able to get up and go to work to support patients and colleagues when they needed it most. I was in the community team and was often the only contact some of our patients had had with the outside world. It was very humbling.

If there was one thing you wish everyone knew

There is lots of evidence to show that your chances of having surgery are much higher if you go to see a surgeon first. Surgeons are trained to do surgery and often there are non-surgical solutions to medical problems that patients don’t know about that can lead to the same physical outcome.

One piece of advice you would give patients looking into cosmetic surgery

I like to know practical things like how many times the surgeon has performed the operation and what the outcomes were. But I think the most important thing is to make sure your expectations are realistic. I would ask to see before and after photos so you can prepare yourself and don’t be afraid to ask questions.

Education

Work Experience

Lizzie has worked in healthcare for over eleven years, both in the NHS and in private health. In every step of her career, she has been pushing for patients to have greater access to the best quality care.

She is a senior commercial clinician and has experience in setting a strategic agenda and influencing board-level decisions. Lizzie’s previous role as a medical director for Bupa, one of the largest global health insurers gave her expertise in assessing health risks, implementing governance processes, assessing regulatory impacts of technologies and utilising findings to positively influence patients’ healthcare.