Jann Gardner

Chief Executive, NHS Lanarkshire

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Jann is currently Chief Executive of NHS Lanarkshire having taken up the post on 1 December 2022.

With more than 25 years of NHS and private healthcare management experience, Jann has held a number of Executive and senior leadership roles within clinical, operational, strategy and transformation with a common denominator of excellent patient care and experience as the critical objective.

Having started her career as a clinical pharmacist, she worked through progressively senior roles in her professional field and then within wider hospital healthcare management.  With a commitment to continuous personal development she holds, in addition to her undergraduate pharmacy degree, postgraduate qualifications in Clinical Pharmacy, Health Economics, Programme Management and an Executive MBA.  She has a keen interest in population health and health inequalities, robotics, innovation and the harnessing of eHealth solutions to accelerate outcomes and resilience.

Prior to joining NHS Lanarkshire she was Chief Executive at NHS Golden Jubilee and Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer in NHS Fife.