Vision

SC1 Co-Chair

Lord Kakkar joins King’s Health Partners with a wealth of high profile experience in healthcare, having previously served as Professor of Surgery at University College London and Chairman of UCLPartners Academic Health Science Partnership, and is Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute London. He brings with him significant understanding of policy making, national healthcare challenges and the political landscape; he is a Life Peer and sits on the crossbenches of the House of Lords. He is also a member of the Privy Council and is Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission, and served as Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission from 2013–2018.

As Independent Chair, Lord Kakkar is responsible for overseeing and optimising the governance of King’s Health Partners Board to create an agile system of partnership development and delivery so that innovation may flourish. He will shape, influence and articulate the purpose and goals of King’s Health Partners at a regional, national and international level, developing an ambitious strategy to harness the system’s innovation and drive best-in-class partnership working and integrated research capability for the benefit of our patients and population.

SC1 Co-Chair

After stepping down from his roles as Senior Vice-President (Health) at King’s College London and Executive Director of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, Sir Robert Lechler has taken up the role of Co-Chair for SC1. He now holds a range of roles including Board membership for two biotech start up companies, chairing an external advisory Board for Birmingham Health Partners, and chairing the London Mozart Players Trust.

In 2012 Robert was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday honours for Services to Academic Medicine and in 2015 was elected as the President of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, Robert was a Founding Board Member of MedCity, was a Board Member of the Crick Institute, and spent five years as a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.

Chief Executive

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Ian became the Chief Executive Officer of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in July 2019. Prior to this, he was appointed Medical Director in January 2011 and Chief Medical Officer in January 2017. Ian was educated at Colfe’s School London, at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and at Pembroke College Cambridge. He holds the degrees of BSc in Immunology and MB BS in Medicine, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge. Ian has had a career in renal medicine at Guy’s Hospital, both as a postgraduate and as a consultant. His main clinical interest is renal transplantation. His research was focused on the biology of renal transplant rejection in which he undertook research in Oxford and in London and his clinical career was as a transplant nephrologist. He also has an interest in immune renal disease including systemic lupus. Over the last 10 years he has held a number of posts in medical leadership and management at Guy’s and St Thomas’. In recognition of his commitment to research and education, he holds a Senior Lecturer position in the Faculty of Medicine, Kings College London. Ian also holds a number of national roles in medicine and in the life sciences. He is Chair of the National Institutes of Health Research Clinical Research Network, the organisation accountable for national clinical research strategy and delivery in England and is the former Chair of the Association of UK University Hospitals Medical Directors Board, the group of university organisations accountable for the majority of UK medical research and education. He is Chair of the London Genomics Medicine consortium and of Digital Health.London, the consortium of London academic organisations accountable for the development and delivery of digital health and technology. Ian became the President of the European Union Healthcare Alliance from December 2019 to May 2020. Most recently Ian has become a Professor of Practice at King’s College London. Outside medicine, Ian’s interests are those of his family (he is married with three daughters). His personal interests are to travel to as many rarely discovered parts of the world is possible, sailing and skiing, rugby and cricket and literature.

Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing

Southwark Council

Councillor Evelyn Akoto leads the council’s public health work and its partnership with the NHS, including the public health response to COVID-19. She has worked to reduce health inequality in the borough including tackling HIV, drug and alcohol services and mental health issues. In addition, Cllr Akoto has worked on safeguarding the needs of vulnerable adults, the provision of personal social services, services to older people and services to people with disabilities.

Chief Executive

Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation

Kieron Boyle is the Chief Executive of the family of organisations part the south London-based philanthropic institution Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation. These include Impact on Urban Health, which works to unlock the potential of cities to be healthier, and the charities that support extraordinary patient and staff care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Kieron also stewards the management and investment of the Foundation’s endowment portfolio, which includes a substantive proportion of land and property. Close to £1 billion, the endowment has a dual mandate of achieving both a financial return and health impact.

Since beginning his career at the Boston Consulting Group, Kieron has worked across the public sector at No.10, the Department for Business and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Kieron previously led the UK government’s work on impact investment, a role in which he helped form the G8 taskforce on social impact investment, and led initiatives creating the Access Foundation, Government Outcomes Lab and Dementia Discovery Fund.

Kieron sits on the Boards of Big Society Capital, the Design Council and Catch22. He chairs LIPH — a global coalition of institutional investors working to improve people’s health — as well as Nesta’s Cultural Impact Development Fund. He a is member of the Mayor of London’s Childhood Obesity Taskforce and on the advisory council of the Impact Investing Institute. In 2014 Kieron was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Chief Executive

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

David joined South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Executive in July 2019. He has extensive NHS operational experience in mental health, acute and community services. David began his career in the NHS in 1980 and has over 20 years’ experience at board level across different NHS trusts in London, Oxford and Surrey including nine years as a Chief Executive Officer. He is a board member of King's Health Partners, a Trustee on Maudsley Charity (the largest mental health charity in the UK) and on the advisory board of Mindful Healthcare. David is Chair of the Cavendish Square Group, which provides a collective voice for the providers of NHS mental health services in London, and for the broader mental health community including clinicians and patients.

Before joining the Trust, David was Chief Executive at South West London and St George's NHS Trust. Through several award-winning change programmes, he transformed the organisation, improving the quality of services and care provided to patients. He led one of London’s most significant successful mental health development schemes with a new £180m state of the art hospital and overall £1bn redevelopment of the existing site.

David is one of the founders of the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership, a unique partnership of three London NHS trusts that, after being established in 2017, has transformed outcomes for people with specialist, often complex mental health problems. This was one of the first effective provider collaboratives to be set up in the NHS and redesigned services that have resulted in over £9m of savings reinvested in new services. The model regarded is widely regarded as a national blueprint for partnership working at a system level.

David completed his MBA at Henley Business School in 2001 and was selected to be on the NHS Top Leaders programme in 2011. He is passionate about tackling deep-rooted health inequalities and providing the best care for the people who use mental health services.

Leader

Lambeth Council

Councillor Claire Holland has been the Leader of Lambeth Council since 2021, and a councillor for Oval ward since 2014. She leads a large majority group in Lambeth, with Labour holding 58 out of the 63 seats.

As Leader of the Council, Claire is responsible for setting the overall political and strategic direction for Lambeth.

She is responsible for driving forward the council’s response to the climate and ecological crisis and working with SC1 partners to improve health equity in the borough by ensuring that the council's work is centred on increasing the economic resilience and wellbeing of Lambeth’s residents as part of a just transition to a healthier and net-zero future for the borough.

Chief Executive

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Clive Kay joined King’s as Chief Executive in April 2019. Clive has extensive clinical and leadership experience, and prior to taking up his position at King’s he was Chief Executive at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from January 2015.

Previously he was Clinical Director of Radiology (2001-2006) and subsequently the Medical Director (2006-2014) at Bradford. Prior to working at Bradford, Clive was a Visiting Associate Professor of Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Radiologists, and former Chairman of both the Royal College of Radiologist’s Scientific Programme Committee and the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology.

He is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.