Professor Lesley Dwyer
Professor Lesley Dwyer is an experienced health leader with an exceptional record in the NHS and Australian healthcare system.
Having begun her career as a nurse, Lesley has worked in a number of leadership roles at times of significant health reform. She has experience and knowledge gained within primary, community and tertiary health settings – she has led complex, multifaceted change and improvement programs aimed at raising organisational performance and integrating service delivery across healthcare systems to improve the health of the community.
Lesley returned to the NHS in late February as the Chief Executive of the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this, she led the largest tertiary health network in South Australia through significant reform and set about on one of the largest cultural changes and the establishment of one of the largest academic health science precincts nationally. She previously was in the NHS as the Chief executive of Medway NHS Foundation Trust during a period which saw the Trust lifted from Quality Special Measures.