Ian Willamson, Chief Accountable Officer Manchester Heath and Care Commissioning (MHCC)

Ian Willamson, Chief Accountable Officer Manchester Heath and Care Commissioning (MHCC)

Ian heads up Manchester’s £1.2bn health and care commissioner, a partnership between the City’s Council and its’ Clinical Commissioning Group. Ian is focused with other leaders in pursuit of a clinically and financially sustainable system, creating new services to deliver improved outcomes.The City has, in addition to MHCC, recently created a new mental health provider, merged its two University hospitals, and developed an out of hospital health and care provider in a proposed 10 year, £6bn agreement.

Ian has nearly 30 years’ experience, predominantly in the NHS in the North West, leading Primary Care Trusts and their successors for over 10 years. He successfully led the Greater Manchester Healthier Together Programme, including the decision by 12 CCGs, ratified by judicial review, to concentrate emergency general surgery in four hospitals, intending to save 300 lives per year.

From early 2015, Ian led the NHS contribution to Greater Manchester health and social care devolution. With local government partners, the devolution deal was negotiated with NHSE, NHSI, HMT and other national bodies, resulting in historic £6bn devolution, and a £450m transformation fund.Ian was Chief Officer for the GM devolution partnership until he returned to Manchester in 2016.

Away from work, Ian has cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and has now resumed playing squash at the age of 50.