Bill Shields

Executive Director of Finance

Bill has four decades of board-level experience and was previously Director of Finance across both Derby and Derbyshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICBs. Before this, he was Interim Chief Executive at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, appointed from his substantive post as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Finance Officer at NHS Devon ICB. Bill has held a range of Chief Executive and Chief Finance Officer roles in the NHS and overseas. He has also served as Chair of the Audit Committee at the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and as President of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, where he currently chairs the Financial Recovery Group.

In his current role Bill has executive lead responsibility for financial management and probity; financial recovery; technical contracting; investment shifts and sustainability; financial strategy, forecasting and planning; procurement programme costing; payment mechanisms – incentives, and spend and activity controls; digital transformation and General Practice information technology; business and operational planning, including demand and capacity.