David Fillingham was appointed as Chair of the Trust Board and Council of
Governors at LSCft from the 1 November 2022.

David joined the NHS in 1989 from a career in manufacturing. He went on to take
a number of Chief Executive posts including Wirral FHSA, St Helens and
Knowsley Health Authority, North Staffordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and Royal
Bolton Hospital NHS FT. From 2001 to 2004 David was Director of the NHS
Modernisation Agency developing new ways of working and promoting
leadership development across the NHS as a whole. He was awarded the CBE
for this work. In 2010 David was made the National NHS Quality Champion in
the NHS Leadership Awards.

David was the Chief Executive of AQuA (the Advancing Quality Alliance) from it’s
creation in April 2010 until he retired from the NHS in June 2019. AQuA is a
membership funded improvement organisation based in the North West of
England.

He has also held a number of non executive roles including Deputy Chair at
Aintree Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Chair of the Trafford Local Care Alliance
and Chair of the Healthier Wigan Partnership. He has also been a visiting Senior
Fellow at the Kings Fund.

In August 2023, David was appointed as Chair of the NHS National Improvement
Board.

David has particular interests in quality improvement, leadership development,
co-production with the users of services and partnership working.