Stacey is an experienced NHS Board Director with over 38 years’ experience working in the NHS and a decade operating in Chief Operating Officer, Divisional Director and Executive System Transformation roles, and over five years’ experience as a Chief Executive Officer. She has spent time working in large scale teaching hospitals, an integrated acute and community trust and is passionate about reducing the inequalities patients experience in respect of their access, experience and outcomes of care.
A nurse by background, Stacey spent several years working in clinical leadership roles before expanding her experience in general management. Stacey has invested in her leadership development having undertaken the NHS Leadership Academy Aspiring CEO programme, and having held two Chief Executive roles to date, is passionate about using her experience and knowledge to improve health services for the population she works for.
Stacey has experience of being a trustee in a number of different charities over the last 20 years most of them related to health and care.
For over three years Stacey was Chief Executive Officer at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Stacey is now in the role of Group Chief Executive Officer for the University Hospitals Tees. Stacey has been instrumental in the collaboration of two health trusts bringing them together under a group model structure and the closer integration of health services across the Tees Valley and surrounding areas.
Outside of work Stacey enjoys sailing and spending time with her dogs!