Faith Button joined NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board as Chief Delivery Officer in March 2024 having previously served as Interim Chief Executive at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Chief Delivery Officer’s role reflects a wide range of duties including leading the system’s work to improve waiting times in urgent and emergency and elective care, developing key annual operational plans including the system winter plan, as well as developing and leading the system digital strategy.
After graduating, Faith joined the NHS and has worked in a number of acute Trusts in senior roles in London and the South with over 20 years’ experience. She has a strong background in senior operational management and performance management having been a Director of Performance. She joined Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2017 as the Deputy Chief Operating Officer and was appointed to Chief Operating Officer in May 2019. Faith took up the position of Interim Chief Executive in October 2023.