Siobhan Harrington
CEO, University Hospitals Dorset
Siobhan Harrington has been Chief Executive of University Hospitals Dorset (UHD) since June 2022. She has overseen the £500 million transformation of services that will see Royal Bournemouth Hospital become the major emergency hospital for east Dorset and Poole Hospital become the largest planned care hospital in the country. With 10,000 staff UHD is the largest employer in Dorset. She is also Chair of the NHS Dorset Provider Collaborative which is bringing together services across the county. Siobhan began her career in nursing posts in London, working at St Thomas’s and Royal Free Hospitals. After programme management roles including at regional level, in 2004 Siobhan was appointed director of Primary Care Commissioning and lead nurse at Haringey PCT. She joined Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in 2006 moving through roles including director of primary care, acting director of nursing, director of strategy and deputy chief executive. She spent two years as programme director for the Barnet Enfield Haringey clinical strategy, and in 2017 was appointed chief executive of Whittington Health NHS Trust.