Professor Joe Rafferty is the Chair of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. He has over 20 years of board-level experience in NHS organisations and spent his career working in healthcare and the NHS before his retirement in October 2024.
Joe's career has covered areas including performance, commissioning and strategy in provider trusts, strategic health authorities and national level roles. Among other roles, he's worked as CEO at NHS Central Lancashire and as an SRO at the NHS Commissioning Board Authority and executive director at NHS North West.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to suicide prevention in 2020.