David Highton
Managing Director
Email: david.highton@clinicenta.com
David has been involved in the ISTC procurement process since 2003, developing the capability and capacity for Clinicenta to be a successful business providing services for NHS patients. He has put together strong multi-stakeholder teams to win in the procurement phase, and has now put in place a top executive management team to take the business forward into the operational phase.
David has a wealth of clinical management experience in the NHS environment. Initially joining the NHS as Financial Director of Ealing Health Authority in 1990, he quickly progressed to CEO level. His last nine years in the NHS were as CEO of two major teaching hospital institutions – as the first CEO of the new Chelsea & Westminster Hospital from 1994, and at the Oxford Radcliffe group of four hospitals from 2000.
During his time in the NHS, David was also a key member of several national working groups and committees. He was on the policy group, which generated the NHS Plan and chaired the London Waiting List Task Force from 1997-2000. He also sat on the National R&D Committee of the NHS for four years, and chaired Healthwork UK and the successor UK body, Skills for Health, seeking to pursue the development of clear and accredited occupational standards and competences for the development of new job roles in healthcare. He has recently rejoined the Board of Skills for Health as an employer member.
Read about other members of our management and clinical team:
Management Team
Managing Director – David Highton
Nursing and Clinical Services Director – Sir Jonathan Asbridge
Medical Director - Professor Mervyn Maze
Clinical Services Development Director - Alison Rivett
Financial Director - Jennifer Tait
Director of Business Services - Iain Clendinning
Business Support Team
Programme Director - John Wainwright
Associate Director of Clinical Services - Mary Farrar
Head of Clinicenta Audiology Services - Jan Croker