Steve Russell

Steve Russell joined NHS England in February 2022 to lead the NHS COVID-19 vaccination and flu programmes. Before that Steve was Chief Executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust and he has a decade’s worth of board level experience in NHS organisations.

Before joining Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust he was NHS Improvement’s Regional Director for London. He started in the NHS as a graduate trainee in Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust where he worked for fourteen years before moving to London where he was Chief Operating Officer at South London Healthcare and Deputy Chief Executive at Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust.