Andrew Donald

Andrew Donald is Chief Executive for NHS Birmingham East and North.

He has worked in a variety of roles both inside and outside the NHS over the last 30 years. Andrew is responsible for leading the commissioning and redesign of services for a population of 440,000 people.

Andrew is responsible for the development of Practice-Based Commissioning, overseeing the trust’s various partnerships, and the development of commissioning of services for people with long term conditions.

Andrew led the introduction of the first telephone-based care service in the UK, Birmingham OwnHealth, which supports people over the telephone to manage their long term condition and increase people’s ability to care for themselves. He has advised a number of other countries in Europe, Canada and New Zealand on the introduction of the OwnHealth approach.

Andrew is also the Project Director for the trust’s World Class Commissioning programme.