Kate Buffery is Head of Personal Health Budgets and Personal Wheelchair Budgets in the Primary, Community and Personalised Care team at NHS England.

Kate originally qualified as a Registered Nurse and has 20 years’ experience working in the NHS.

Kate spent the majority of her nursing career working in the community as a District Nurse, before moving into commissioning. Kate has commissioning experience within continuing healthcare, urgent care and health and social care, and before coming into the team Kate held a varied portfolio of community services which included commissioning wheelchair services.