Mark Britnell

Mark Douglas Britnell (born 5 January 1966) is Chairman and Senior Partner for the Global Health Practice of the professional services firm KPMG. He was previously Director-General for Commissioning and System Management for the English National Health Service (NHS) (July 2007–September 2009), as well as Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and the South Central Strategic Health Authority.

Having studied law at the University of Warwick, he joined the fast-track NHS Management Training Scheme in 1989, receiving his post-graduate education at Warwick Business School.

His early career included various management posts in the NHS, a spell with the Australian health service, a year in the civil service fast stream during which he was sponsored by the Australian College of Health Service Executives to work in Melbourne and Sydney before being seconded to the NHS Executive in 1992. Britnell joined St Mary’s Hospital in London as a General Manager before being appointed as a Director at Central Middlesex Hospital (now part of North West London Hospitals NHS Trust) in 1995, when he was named Project Director for an Ambulatory Care and Diagnostic (ACAD) Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme - the first of its kind in the UK.

At 34 years of age, he became Chief Executive at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, one of the youngest people to be appointed to a Chief Executive role in the NHS. He led the organization from 2000 to 2006, taking it through first-wave NHS Foundation Trust status, securing the second largest PFI hospital build in England to date and establishing the first Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in partnership with the Ministry of Defence.

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