Gareth Lyon
head of Health and Social Care, The Policy Exchange

Gareth Lyon is head of Health and Social Care at Policy Exchange. Gareth has 20 years of experience in health care policy, with a record of achieving positive outcomes while engaging on Government policy. He has worked for some of the biggest healthcare companies and trade associations in social care, health, housing, education, engineering and digital advertising.

Gareth previously worked at Bupa for a number of years, working on several important policy initiatives focused on workplace health and healthcare system design.  Building a collaboration between a global network of companies, academics and health experts to improve health outcomes and drive innovation. He also led Bupa’s engagement with the Competition and Markets Authority during their investigation into the UK private healthcare market.

Gareth led policy and government relations for ARCO (Associated Retirement Community Operators), where he made the case for a new model of housing and care for older people in the UK, publishing policy reports making the economic, housing and health case for this new approach. At the Proprietary Association of Great Britain, he helped to shape the Government’s self-care agenda and secured significant improvements in policy and regulation for over-the-counter medicines. At Novartis, he worked to expand access for UK patients to innovative medicines and treatments and worked on policy initiatives to tackle counterfeit medicines and animal rights extremism.

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