OUH Chief Executive Officer appointed to national NHS leadership role
17/03/2025
Professor Meghana Pandit
Professor Meghana Pandit, Chief Executive Officer of Oxford University Hospitals (OUH), has been appointed as Co-National Medical Director – Secondary Care in the NHS Transformation Executive Team which will help to lead NHS England's transition into the Department of Health and Social Care.
She will be taking up this important national leadership role on an 18-month secondment with effect from Tuesday 1 April.
Simon Crowther, who joined OUH as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in September 2024, will be the Trust's Acting Chief Executive Officer from 1 April.
In a personal message to all OUH staff today (Monday 17 March), OUH Chair Professor Sir Jonathan Montgomery said: "I would like to thank Meghana for everything she has done since she joined OUH, initially as Chief Medical Officer from January 2019 before her appointment as Chief Executive Officer from July 2022.
"Meghana's appointment demonstrates the high regard in which she is held both personally and as leader of OUH at national level in the NHS. As Chief Medical Officer, she set the tone for our commitment to compassionate excellence and safest levels of patient care throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and since, and as Chief Executive Officer she has provided calm and clear leadership, making Patient Care, People, Performance, and Partnerships our key strategic pillars.
"In my role as Trust Chair, I have valued the opportunity to work with Meghana and I wish her all the best in her new challenge on secondment to NHS England. Meghana is an outstanding leader and an excellent appointment for the NHS.
"I am sure you will join with me in congratulating Meghana on her appointment and in supporting Simon Crowther as he steps up to the role of Acting Chief Executive Officer."