Stephen Thornton
Chief Executive
Stephen Thornton has more than 20 years' management experience in the National Health Service, having worked at hospital, community health, health authority, regional and national levels of the service. He spent five years as Chief Executive of Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority and five years as Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, the membership body for NHS organisations, negotiating directly with ministers on issues concerning the management of the health service.
Stephen has extensive international healthcare experience. He has been a member of the Governing Council of the International Hospital Federation. He is currently a member of The Commonwealth Fund's International Program in Health Policy and Practice Coordinating Committee. He is a trustee of the Aquaid Lifeline Fund, a charity providing orphan care in Malawi.
He was a member of the NHS Modernisation Board 2001/02 and a Commissioner on the Board of The Healthcare Commission 2003/06. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and was appointed a CBE in the 2001 New Year's Honours List. He took up the role of Non-Executive Director of Monitor (the independent regulator of NHS Foundation trusts) on 1 October 2006.
Contact
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- 020 7257 8000