Appointed November 2022

Kevin is a highly motivated individual with extensive UK executive experience working in Acute Care NHS Trusts, Community, Children’s, Primary Care, Prison Health as well as Social Care and the Independent Sector. Whilst in the Independent Sector Kevin developed and implemented a Quality Assurance Assessment Programme delivering a reliable quality assurance profile achieving CQC overall rating of at least good in 100% of hospitals / services ensuring that the group was one of only two Acute Hospital Groups with their entire portfolio achieving a rating of ‘good’.

Kevin’s knowledge and skills are in management, operations, regulation, governance, assurance, start-ups, and mobilisation. Kevin holds professional qualifications in both Nursing and Allied Health Professions and is a passionate advocate for the profession having developed and delivered a Senior Nurse and AHP leadership programme which was recognised by the RCN.

Kevin has held executive posts as Chief Nurse, Director of Governance / Assurance and as the Director of Infection Prevention & Control, lead for Information Governance including the implementation of GDPR and holding the position of SIRO, National Speak up Guardian and the national lead for Medical and Nursing Revalidation and Appraisal. Kevin has widespread experience implementing and leading Medical Governance and high-profile patient recalls having recently led a patient recall of over 600 patients.

He is a credible role model who possesses excellent interpersonal, communication and facilitation skills. A creative thinker, skilled in the management of change with up-to-date knowledge of leading-edge practice and who demonstrates a proven ability to spearhead and deliver innovation alongside regulatory compliance with the vision to transform plans into reality across complex, multi-agency and multi-site organisations and environments.  Kevin has been a retained lecturer on the Health MBA at Nottingham University Business School.