Danny Mortimer

Danny has been chief executive of NHS Employers since November 2014, leading work relating to workforce policy and practice. He also serves as deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation, of which NHS Employers is part.

Danny has worked in the NHS since 1989, first as a porter and a CSV care assistant before becoming a management trainee in Stoke-on-Trent. He continued his work in Bath and Brighton before taking up his first director post in West Sussex. He then worked in executive roles in hospitals in Hertfordshire and Nottingham before joining NHS Employers.

Danny is an employer member of the ACAS Council and founded the Cavendish Coalition of social care and health organisations, which he continues to chair.  He is a Chartered Companion of the CIPD, and a trustee of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion and the NHS Retirement Fellowship.