Steve is Chief Executive of Harrogate & District FT, joining in April 2019 after 2.5 years as NHS Improvement’s Regional Director for London. Steve was a graduate trainee and spent 14 years at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust where he was Executive Director of Medicine & Emergency Care. He moved to London and prior to his time with NHS Improvement, Steve spent two years as Chief Operating Officer at South London Healthcare NHS Trust, a year as London Programme Director (A&E) and Improvement Director at the NHS Trust Development Authority, and two years as Deputy Chief Executive at Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.