Peter Griffiths has spent his entire career in healthcare.

His last executive appointments within the NHS were as Deputy Chief Executive for the Management Executive at the Department of Health, and Chief Executive of the Guys & Lewisham first-wave NHS Trust.

In the mid 1990s Peter moved to the King's Fund as Deputy Chief Executive and Director of their management college and subsequently headed up the Health Quality Service, an independent organisation providing quality development support to health services nationally and internationally. He was also President of the Institute of Health Services Management.

On appointment in 2005 he stepped down as Non Executive Director of the Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust, to become Chairman of Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at East Grinstead.

Peter is Chairman of the Foundation Trust Network Board.