Una O’Brien

Una O’Brien is the Department of Health’s Director General of Policy and Strategy and was previously Director of Provider Reform Policy.  She has twenty years experience of health policy and leading and managing change in health services.

In 2005, Una completed a three year secondment as Director of Development and Clinical Governance at University College London NHS Foundation Trust.  Between 1998 and 2001, she was the Secretary to the Bristol/Kennedy Inquiry, the largest public inquiry to date into the NHS. 

Other previous roles include Private Secretary to the Minister for Health and to the Secretary of State for Transport. In the 1980s, she helped establish London Lighthouse, a pioneering third sector provider of services for people with HIV and AIDS.