Amanda Sullivan

Chief Executive

Amanda has almost four decades of experience in clinical practice, commissioning and system transformation. She is Chief Executive of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICBs. She previously served as Chief Executive of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board, a role she formally assumed in July 2022. Her earlier roles include Accountable Officer for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group, where she oversaw the merger of six CCGs and the development of integrated system working, following a period as Interim Accountable Officer for the six CCGs.

Alongside her commissioning leadership roles, Amanda has had a long and successful career in nursing. She was Interim Director of Nursing for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Primary Care Trust from 2011 to 2012, and Director of Nursing, Quality and Governance at Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust, where she was awarded a prestigious Florence Nightingale Scholarship. Her leadership experience also spans acute trusts, including developing a new model for nursing and midwifery practice across Nottingham University Hospitals Trust as Interim Deputy Director of Nursing. Amanda’s NHS career began as a Staff Nurse in 1988 before she became a Midwife and Consultant Midwife. This area of professional interest expanded in 2001 when Amanda was awarded a PhD for research investigating decision-making during pregnancy.

Amanda currently also has overall responsibility for human resources and organisational development; corporate governance and probity arrangements; Freedom to speak up; information governance and corporate records; and legal and corporate administration. During this time of transition to a new operating model, she is temporarily supported in the delivery of these responsibilities by an Executive Director of Transition.