Annie Phillips

Annie Phillips has written professionally about health and health management since she qualified as a speech and language therapist in 1978. She has over thirty years' NHS experience in primary and secondary care as a clinician and manager.

Her first ten years as a speech and language therapist, specializing in adult neurology and elderly care, led to the research and publication of an international dysphasia /dementia screening test, presented at the 1986 British Aphasiology Conference. She has won various prizes and awards for her subsequent work, and in the 1990s was a finalist in the Medeconomics Good Management Awards and regional winner in a national British Institute of Management competition on Change Management.

She worked as a practice and fund manager for a six-partner training GP practice in central Brighton from 1989- 1998; from then as an independent health adviser, trainer, and management consultant to general practice and PCTs. As a management consultant, her interest focused on organizational analysis and the development of healthy organisations ; finding ways to manage stresses and conflicts, understanding and alleviating dysfunctional communication and developing effective management strategies.

In 2000 she returned to clinical work as a paediatric speech and language therapist. She left this work in 2015 to concentrate on writing and training.

Throughout her career she has written extensively for the therapy, medical and management press on contemporary management issues for a range of publications including the Health Service Journal, Community Care, Pulse, Medi-Economics, Doctor, Primary Care Manager and Croner Publications with a focus on healthcare politics and clinical management. The Books written here are still available on Amazon.

Annie lived in Brighton for many years, where she had her son, Chris, then Somerset, and now lives with her wife Linda in West Sussex. She now writes narrative non-fiction as Annie Cox, recently publishing her first book The Undoing, a story about growing up in a dysfunctional family in the 50's and 60's.