Mike Farrar

Mr. Farrar is a management consultant with 15 years of CEO experience in the NHS, having stepped down as the Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation in September 2013. Since then, Mr. Farrar has worked as an independent consultant, with clients such as Celesio, RCGP, ABPI, NHS Quest, NHS Leadership Academy, Health Foundation, Vanguard Health Solutions, Pfizer, CIPFA, as well as starting up a number of small companies aimed at promoting health innovations, and links between health and sport.

Mr. Farrar remains a prominent thought leader and consultant to the NHS, where he supports system wide leadership groups in Manchester, West Yorkshire, The North West, South Nottinghamshire, Essex, Oxfordshire, and South Hampshire along with work in a number of individual NHS organizations including Bradford, Leeds, SW Yorkshire and Liverpool.

Mr. Farrar was also the Vice and Interim Chairperson of Sport England, and in August 2009 was appointed as National Director for Sport and Health. He was also awarded the CBE in 2005 for services to the NHS and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal College of Physicians, and the University of Central Lancashire.