Board Members - Individual backgrounds and experience
For more information about our Executive Directors, please click on the link below to learn more about each individual's background and experience:
For more information about our Non-Executive Directors, please click on the link below to learn more about each individual's background and experience:
Chris Lyons: Director of Strategic Programmes (non voting)
Chris was appointed to this new role in June 2021, although he first joined Mersey Care in January 2016.
During his time with the Trust, Chris has provided the programme leadership for a number of significant acquisitions and strategic programmes. His role is to lead and deliver on significant strategic and organisational wide change within the trust. He is also a member of the Executive Team.
He began his career as a NHS General Management Trainee in Northern Ireland (1992–1994) and subsequently went on to hold a number of accountable officer and director positions across healthcare, local government and the university sector in both the UK and Ireland. Throughout his career, Chris has led on a number of significant strategic change programmes including spending three years overseeing a major reconfiguration of five hospital sites on the east coast of Ireland and more recently as the Programme Director responsible for the operational planning and commissioning of the new Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in 2014-2015.
Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Economics, MSc Health Economics, MSc Health and Social Services Management.