Dr. Des Holden is the Acting Chief Executive at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
Des was previously CEO at Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex . He was also a consultant and the Medical Director at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and then joined Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) as Medical Director and member of the Board in 2011, a post he held until 2019 when the CQC awarded the trust an outstanding rating overall and in four of the six inspection domains.
In addition, he is an international advisor to Public Intelligence, the Danish organisation running citizen engagement and living lab co-design for new technologies and is also a visiting professor at the University of Surrey, in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Clinical and Experimental Medicine.
