UKBHC Board Member profiles 2014
Brief account of your experience to date:
Stephen is a senior healthcare leader with 22 years board level experience, 20 of those as
chief executive. He has extensive non executive experience: presently the Deputy Chair
and senior independent director of Monitor, the health sector regulator; Vice Chair of the
Eastern Academic Health Science Network; a member of the Board of the Nursing and
Midwifery Council; and a non executive director of The Pathology Partnership (a start-up
joint venture between seven NHS hospitals in the East of England).
Until his retirement in September 2013 Stephen headed the Health Foundation, an
independent charitable endowment of +£700m and an annual expenditure of c£25m. He is
also an expert member of the Department of Health’s National Quality Board.
He has negotiated directly with Ministers and senior officials. For a period he was the ‘public
face’ of NHS management when he handled some of the most challenging media
environments. He continues to have an extensive network of healthcare related contacts
and continues to advise the present Government both formally and informally.
Any role you fulfil on the Board:
Stephen brings an understanding of the wider policy and managerial contexts within which
chaplaincy services operate.
What you hope to contribute to the work of UKBHC:
Encouragement and positive challenge.
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Name: STEPHEN THORNTON BA (Hons)