Mark Cubbon is a British healthcare official. He was appointed Chief Executive of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust in November 2022. He was previously

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's chief delivery officer and before that chief executive of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and had senior roles at various NHS providers in London. He trained at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

and started his career as a nurse. He led the development of proposals for and establishing

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s. His role at NHS England was on a secondment basis for two years. He was earlier shortlisted for the chief executive position at Barts Health NHS Trust. In October 2021 he told English hospitals to “immediately stop all delays” for ambulances stacking outside

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units after an

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said the problem had reached “catastrophic” levels. He apologised to

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representatives in July 2022 about their experiences in setting up

s. In 2020 he wrote a letter to the courts to explain the impact of violence on staff after a nurse was attacked on

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. He also asked

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residents to follow tier four rules. In his first year in Portsmouth he saw the emergency department's four-hour target hit its highest percentage for more than a year, the trust's finances stabilise and staff morale improve.

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