Cathy Elliott became Chief Executive of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB in June 2025. She was previously Chair of NHS West Yorkshire ICB and Deputy Chair of the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). She also holds a Department for Transport Ministerial appointment as the Independent Chair of a public funding programme for communities and businesses.

Cathy was previously Chair of Bradford District Care NHS FT; an NHS Non-Executive Director in the Greater Manchester ICP; a senior social policy advisor, including the national Power to Change Trust; and prior to that was a regional Chief Executive in the North West and a national trustee in the UK community foundation network, working with the international movement of community foundations in Canada and Europe. Cathy is a Senior International Fellow of the City University of New York’s Centre on Philanthropy and Civil Society; a Clore Social Leadership Fellow; a graduate of the University of Manchester; a Post-Graduate of Bayes Business School, London; and a West Yorkshire Health Equity Fellow via the School of Public Health at University of Leeds.