Dean joined the Board in 2017 when he was also Chair of ULHT. He is currently Chair of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, on the Boards of both NHS Providers and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership and also a Non-Executive Director with the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman. He has also recently been appointed as Chair of the National Centre for Organisational Resilience at the Lincoln International Business School (having formerly been a Professor in the Practice of Healthcare Management at Cass Business School) and is concurrently also a Visiting Professor in The Centre for Governance, Leadership and Global Responsibility at Leeds Business School.