Director of Primary Care,
Department of Health

Gary is Director of Commissioning in the Department of Health Commissioning and System Management Directorate. He has over 20 years’ experience in the NHS and DH. His previous roles have included Head of Primary Care in the DH, Chief Executive of an NHS Trust and Deputy CE of a Community and Mental Health NHS Trust. In five years at the DH Gary has led the team who created the models for Practice Based Commissioning (PBC), Long Term Conditions (LTC) and new PECs. In his current role, Gary is responsible for developing a vision for World Class Commissioning (WCC) including identifying the key strategic competencies. His team are designing the earned autonomy model and identifying the incentives to underpin this. This major piece of work will help support PCTs and professionalise commissioning. PBC continues to be a key policy in Gary’s portfolio and in August 2007 he took on responsibility for implementing the framework for procuring external support for commissioners (FESC). Both PBC and FESC will play a key role in developing WCC.