Miles Scott, Chief Executive

Miles Scott headshotAs the Trust’s “Accountable Officer”, Miles Scott is responsible for the overall development and performance of the Trust.

Miles joined Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust in 2018 and has over three decades of NHS leadership experience encompassing acute, community and mental health services.

Alongside his Trust responsibilities, Miles holds national and regional leaderships roles including National Delivery Advisor for NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care programme.

He is also Co-Chair of the NHS England South East Learning and Improvement Network.

Miles is actively involved in the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System, chairing key committees including the Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance, the Kent and Medway Acute Transformation Programme, and the West Kent Health and Care Partnership.

He has previously chaired regional committees in London and Yorkshire, including the South London Academic Health Sciences Network and the West Yorkshire Clinical Research Network.

Before joining the Trust, Miles was Improvement Director at NHS Improvement and previously served as Chief Executive at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust.

Miles is married to Abbie and has two children. He lives in south west London with his family.

The Chief Executive's role

The Chief Executive is the accountable officer to Parliament and is responsible for ensuring the organisation works effectively in accordance with national health policy, public service values and maintenance of financial control. The Chief Executive is also personally accountable for clinical and corporate governance.

Their role is directly accountable to the Board for ensuring its decisions are implemented. Some areas they are also responsible for include:

  • leading the executive directors in setting the trust’s strategic aims, developing shared understanding and commitment to these aims, and working with Board colleagues, managers and staff, partner organisations in the local and system wide health economy and appropriate external organisations.
  • to ensure individual/patient and population needs are at the fore of what the trust does.
  • to provide visible leadership modelling exemplary behaviours of personal integrity and inspiring and empowering staff.
  • Examining all major capital expenditure proposed and the recommendation to the Board of Directors of those which are material either by nature or cost
  • Managing the trust’s risk profile in line with the extent and categories of risk identified as acceptable by the Board
  • Leading the executive directors in the day-to-day running of the trust’s business, including chairing the Executive team meetings and communicating decisions/recommendations to the Board
  • Promote effective joint working across organisational boundaries towards the achievement of the strategic objectives of the region in Kent and Medway,

The Chief Executive works with the Chair to ensure the Board maintains its capacity and is continually developed in order to ensure it has ‘balance, completeness and appropriateness’ in the context of a changing NHS and wider healthcare environment.

In support of these responsibilities a key part of the Chief Executive role is a focus on the integration agenda, system leadership and partnership working.