Junior Doctor of the Year: Influencing healthcare at home and abroad

The charity has two key aims: improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in western Kenya and providing global child health education and experience for students and medical volunteers in the United Kingdom. Dr Little established and led the first multiprofessional Darzi fellow programme in 2009 and co-founded "The Network," an online community for medical students and junior doctors with an interest in clinical leadership and medical management, which was set up to fill the vacuum left by the closure of the British Association of Medical Managers. Dr Little has also led various quality improvement initiatives, such as the North West Strategic Health Authority European Working Time Directive team, which fully implemented the directive a year early (improving regional compliance from 34% to 96% over 12 months) and won her and her team a Health Services Journal award for workforce development in 2008.