Adam was appointed Chief Operating Officer in April 2018. Since joining the NHS in 2005 through the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme, Adam has held senior operational manager positions with responsibility for surgical, medical, emergency and community services.
Adam holds the following healthcare leadership qualifications: an MSc degree in Healthcare Leadership and an Executive Healthcare Leadership Award with distinction from the Nye Bevan NHS Leadership Academy Programme. He has also completed a Healthcare Information Fellowship at GlaxoSmithKline.
Regionally, Adam was Chair of the Cheshire and Merseyside paediatric gold command that oversaw paediatric bed capacity and mutual aid during the Covid-19 pandemic and RSV outbreak. Nationally, Adam co-led the deployment of new healthcare innovation solutions across the Children’s Hospital Alliance.
Adam is the Executive lead for performance; this includes leading the recovery of paediatric services in order to address the waiting list backlog that has built up during Covid-19. He is the Senior Responsible Officer for the deployment of a new Electronic Patient Record (Alder C@re) and the programme to open a new world-leading Neonatal Intensive Care Unit facility in 2024.