Dominic Dodd to step down as UCLPartners Chair

After a span of 16 years on the UCLPartners board, Dominic Dodd has decided to step down as Chair.

Dominic joined the board in UCLPartners’ founding year of 2009 in his role as Chair of what was then The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust.

He was instrumental in helping UCLPartners to facilitate what turned out to be the UK’s largest specialist services reconfiguration which saw consolidation within cardiology, pancreatic surgery, neurosurgery and haematology across Barts Health, the Royal Free and UCLH. He also led UCLPartners’ Risk and Audit Committee for many years.

After his chairing roles at the Royal Free and The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, he went on to help form and Chair UCL Health Alliance, the provider collaborative across the NHS trusts serving North Central London which was merged with UCLPartners in 2023. It is now doing pioneering work on new models of care for people living with multiple, complex long-term conditions.

Over the last few years, UCLPartners has seen a major strengthening of its capabilities. It has narrowed down its focus onto fewer, larger-scale and more ambitious innovation programmes, such as remote coaching to keep people well at home and new pathways in ophthalmology. It has been pioneering new approaches to landing zones for the scale-up of healthcare innovations, both locally and globally. And it has successfully moved to a new home in the health innovation hub at Hale House.

UCLPartners CEO, Dr Chris Laing said: “Dominic has been a phenomenal Chair and will be sorely missed. During his time at UCLPartners he has been instrumental in a period of accelerated growth  in our impact and influence. He has also played a huge role in UCLPartners history. Most recently he has played a significant role in shaping the UK Governments Life Science Plans and proposals for the role of innovation in the NHS 10 year plan.

On behalf of all our staff and partners I would like to sincerely thank Dominic. I know he will be keeping in touch, and we wish him all the best for future endeavours.”

Dominic said: “I am so proud of the important work the team at UCLPartners are doing in areas where innovation can drive radical reform of the NHS for the benefit of all. I wish the team and the wider partnership every success for the future”.

Dominic will step down as Chair at the end of September.