Susan Laidlaw

Director of Public Health, NHS Shetland

Dr Susan Laidlaw qualified from University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1991, working in Scotland, North East England and Portsmouth until 1998, primarily in Mental Health services. She moved into Public Health Medicine, initially training in Sunderland and Newcastle before moving to Shetland in 2002, becoming a consultant five years later and then Director of Public Health in 2022.

In three years’ time Susan would like the partnership to have made further inroads and a significant impact in reducing inequity, particularly around health inequalities, and in developing community resilience.

She believes that the partnership has shown real achievement in areas around money concerns and poverty. In particular the work done to build upon Shetland’s Commission on Tackling Inequalities, the recommendations of which underpin the Shetland Partnership Plan.