Maria Principe

Executive Director of Commissioning

Maria is an experienced NHS leader with almost three decades of experience in commissioning, transformation and system delivery. As Chief Delivery Officer at Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board, her substantive role, she is recognised for the strategic and operational leadership she provides across urgent and emergency care, elective recovery, mental health, cancer, diagnostics and primary care.

Maria has extensive board-level experience, having led commissioning within the city of Nottingham. She played a key role in supporting financial turnaround and improving system sustainability during that period, including through her tenure as Turnaround Lead at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. She was also the lead for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s response during Covid. Maria holds an MBA in Law with a focus on contracting, bringing a strong commercial and governance perspective to her NHS leadership. This was also a significant factor in her successful development of the NHS System Analytics Intelligence Unit in Nottinghamshire.

In her current role Maria is the ICB’s Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Accountable Emergency Officer and has executive lead responsibility for data, analytics and intelligence, population health data, population health segmentation, forecasting and modelling; performance assessment and management of contracted services; market management; commissioning intentions; operational plan delivery and impact monitoring; joint commissioning (including neighbourhood health); and primary care.