Helen Dillistone

Executive Director of Transition

Helen is an experienced executive having held numerous board-level roles in NHS commissioning organisations over the past 20 years. Helen joins the cluster from NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB where she was Chief of Staff, providing the most senior management support to the Chief Executive Officer and ICB Chair to ensure the ICB exercised its functions effectively, efficiently and economically.

She undertook many responsibilities in this position where she directly managed and led multiple functions across the NHS, such as HR, OD, patient and public engagement, communications, system oversight and governance functions, all of which lend themselves to her current role supporting colleagues to develop our cluster to best serve the communities we are accountable to. Helen also has significant experience of leading multiple complex organisational change and development programmes, including as the executive lead for establishing CCGs, ICBs and merging and restructuring NHS organisations.

Prior to joining the NHS, she worked in a range of management positions within commercial and legal sectors. Helen’s first degree is in law and she also holds an MBA.