Piers Young
Piers Young is a Senior Manager and leader in healthcare, with a proven track recording in supporting NHS organisations, the Department of Health and NHS England in improvement and NHS operational management. Piers has experience at executive and board level and has worked at Chief Operating Officer level at a NHS acute provider. He has an extensive operational and service improvement background and is a graduate of the NHS management training scheme. He has overseen and been the SRO for the development and delivery of a system-wide recovery plan for elective care, which included the return to reporting for RTT and the delivery of RTT and cancer access standards. Piers has also worked for NHS England on national data quality improvement programmes, and he was part of the national 18-week programme when it was initial established.
As a director for NHS Elect, Piers leads on Quality Improvement and Strategy work in healthcare. He has led on change management programmes for members and network programmes for both elective and non-elective services. He has experience leading on national improvement programmes and he is the spinal surgery and vascular quality improvement associate for the specialised commissioning frailty network with NHS England.