Matthew Kershaw has been Chief Executive of Croydon Health Services NHS Trust since 2018 and is Croydon’s Place Based Leader for Health. Before joining Croydon, Matthew held a number of senior leadership roles within the NHS, most recently Chief Executive of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust where he led the Trust out of Quality Special Measures. Prior to this, Matthew was Chief Executive of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust for three years, securing £500m capital to redevelop the Sussex County Hospital. He has also worked with the Care Quality Commission, Health Education England, and the Kent Cancer Alliance, where he chaired the Kent, Surrey, and Sussex Clinical Research Network.
Matthew is the joint Croydon Health Services Chief Executive and Place-Based Leader for health, and is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at The King’s Fund where he has played a key role in its work with health and care organisations to develop integrated care that better meets the needs of patients and services-users.
Matthew is interested in the better integration of care to improve patient outcomes and is able to promote this through his work in South West London Integrated Care System.