Dr Kathy McLean OBE

 

Prior to this, she was the Chair of the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB and Integrated Care Partnership, as well as the Chair of NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB. Kathy was also Medical Director at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for over six years, where she was also a consultant physician at the trust from 1994 until 2009.

 

She was the Medical Director at the former NHS Trust Development Authority for three years up to 2016 and prior to this she was the Clinical Transitions Director, helping to build the NHS Commissioning Board, which is now NHS England. Her work has focused on improving quality by building clinical leadership and expertise across the system, supporting the most challenged organisations and leading change.

 

Kathy was the Chair of University Hospitals Derby and Burton until 2022. She has also sat as a non-executive director at Barts Health and Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trusts. Additionally, Kathy is the Chair of the NHS Confederation’s Integrated Care System Network Board.

 

In 2018 Kathy was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for her services to leadership across the NHS.