Chief Executive, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; England

Phil Wood joined Leeds Teaching Hospitals in 2002 as a Consultant Immunologist and during his career he has worked in many operational and strategic roles including Clinical Director for services such as Pathology and Oncology and Medical Director for Strategy and Planning. He has been a champion and advocate of a continuous improvement approach to healthcare, working with the Virginia Mason Institute over the past decade to help develop the Trust’s improvement system.

Phil has held several regional roles including Senior Responsible Officer for the initial Covid-19 vaccination programme in West Yorkshire. He is committed to partnership working across systems, and currently co-chairs the West Yorkshire Cancer Alliance. He is Chair of the Northeast & Yorkshire Genomic Medicine Service Board, a member of the NHS England National Genomics Board and a director and
board member at the Northern Health Science Alliance. He is the chair of the Leeds Academic Health Partnership and a member of the NHS IMPACT National Improvement Board.