Dr Kathy McLean

Chair

Dr McLean was chair of University Hospitals Derby and Burton until taking up her role with NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board. She is also the chair of our ICS Network and a non-executive director at Barts Health and Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trusts.

Prior to becoming a non-executive, Kathy was executive medical director and chief operating officer at NHS Improvement, the organisation responsible for providing leadership and support to NHS trusts and foundation trusts.

Contributions

NHS Voices

Trust and ICB leaders must resist the temptation to blame others for the NHS’s woes

While the new planning guidance focuses on immediate improvements, they have to be balanced with the ten-year health plan's longer-term reforms.

17 February 2025

Confed Viewpoint

Making ICBs performance managers will slow integration

To fulfil their potential to reform health and care, ICBs must be able to focus on both short-term operational issues and longer-term goals.

9 August 2024

NHS Voices

We must walk in each other’s shoes to get systems working

Joint exploration, learning and networking will serve integrated care systems well as a new chapter beckons, writes Dr Kathy McLean.

24 February 2022