Mr Ron Calvert

Chief Executive, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service

Ron Calvert has held a number of senior management and executive posts in hospitals across England.

Prior to his appointment, Ron Calvert was Chief Executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, which has 6000 staff (5230 FTE) and a turnover of £330 million, operating from three main locations.

The trust was rated among the top 20 per cent in England in a recent in-patient survey, with eleven areas evaluated including hospital admission, cleanliness, hand hygiene and fewer delays in leaving hospital.

His previous post was Chief Executive of Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust. Ron was responsible for turning round a financially challenged trust and developing proposals for a new integrated care organisation. Ron also introduced a quality regime that resulted in a significant reduction in mortality rates, resulting in Trafford being rated in the top 11 hospitals in England. In addition, the trust made significant improvements in healthcare acquired infection rates: no blood borne MRSA bacteraemia infections have taken place in Trafford for the two and a half years preceding his departure, and this track record has continued since he left—the trust has had zero MRSA blood borne infections for well over three years now.

He joined Trafford from the University of Liverpool, where he was Chief Operating Officer, in addition holding a Non-Executive Director role at Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital. Prior to this, he spent 11 years at two major teaching hospitals—University Hospitals Leicester (UHL) and University College London Hospitals (UCLH).

At Leicester he was responsible for all clinical services in a 2,300 bed hospital operating three major sites; his first Board level post was at UCLH, where he was responsible for The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and The Eastman Dental Hospital. Before that he held various senior management posts at Royal Hull Hospitals.

Ron holds:

• MBA—University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1994
• MSc Zool (Hons) University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1982.