Alex Whitfield

Alex started her career in operational management at ExxonMobil’s Fawley Oil Refinery and holds an engineering degree from Cambridge University. After 13 years at Exxon, Alex moved to the NHS. Her first NHS role was at North Hampshire Hospital in 2005, and during her time there she covered areas as diverse as project management, governance, productivity and operational management of the emergency division.

She went on to become chief operating officer at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. From 2012 to 2017, Alex was the chief operating officer at Solent NHS Trust, which at the time provided community-based physical and mental health services in Southampton, Portsmouth and parts of wider Hampshire. She became chief executive of Hampshire Hospitals in 2017.

Alex is also a member of our Acute Network advisory board.