Chief Executive, Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH); UK

As chief executive, Toby is responsible for the safety of staff and patients, financial sustainability and value, and for partnerships with communities and other organisations to improve health outcomes. Toby joined the trust from The King’s Fund where focused on poverty, inequities, and inclusion health. Since joining the NHS in 1994, he has worked in primary care, mental and community health, and hospitals in London, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands. After working in Downing Street, he joined his first NHS board in 2005 and has served in executive roles since that time. He led work to use the apprenticeship levy to the benefit for often excluded populations, such as care leavers and those at risk of experiencing homelessness, creating jobs as a route to better health. He holds masters’ degrees, in public health from Edinburgh University medical school, and occupational psychology from Birkbeck College, London, as well Oxford.