CEO, North East & North Cumbria Integrated Care Board; England

Sam joined the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board as CEO from Sussex where she had been Chief Executive of an NHS Mental Health and Learning Disability Trust for five years. Prior to this Sam has worked in a range of operational management and leadership roles across healthcare. With more than 23 years of NHS experience, she also gained valuable experience working in an international healthcare organisation in the independent sector. Sam is Chair of the Health and Care Women Leaders Network at the NHS Confederation, a member of The Kings Fund General Advisory Council, St. George’s House Leadership Fellow, and a member of the Chartered Management Institute Board of Companions. Sam’s areas of interest span the leadership and governance of health and care systems and in particular the potential that exists to integrate physical and mental health care. She believes in an assets-based approach to good wellbeing.