GBR
Caroline Clarke
Strategy
transformation
system working
digital and data
CEO, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

leadership vision

To improve health and wellbeing of the population that I serve using the best techniques available. 

my story

I was part of Cohort 1, met some great colleagues, and have really enjoyed the learning and experience since then.

Having an international network was particularly helpful during the early days of the pandemic and has provided some great comparative learning. 

about me

Caroline Clarke is the CEO of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. Caroline was formerly director of strategy at NHS North Central London. Prior to that she was an associate partner in KPMG's health strategy team. She has spent most of her career in NHS finance, having been director of finance at Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and City and Hackney Primary Care Trust. Caroline was the trust's chief finance officer between 2011-18. In 2012 she was named finance director of the year by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She was appointed as the trust's deputy chief executive in 2012. Caroline is a director of RFL Property Services Ltd and a trustee of Overcoming MS and the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), the representative body for finance staff in healthcare.

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Meet the Partners

Sciana: The Health Leaders Network is a programme supported jointly by the Health Foundation (UK), Careum (CH) and the Bosch Health Campus (DE) in collaboration with Salzburg Global.