Duncan is Chief Nursing Officer for England and an Executive/National Director at NHS England. He is also the National Director responsible for infection prevention and control.

Prior to his appointment, Duncan held the post of Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England and led the maternity and neonatal programme and the children and young people’s transformation programme, as well as nursing workforce policy and infection prevention and control. He delivered the Nursing International Recruitment Programme, which ensured we met the 50k nurse commitment 6 months early, and the Health Care Support Worker Recruitment Programme, which resulted in the highest number of healthcare support staff employed in the NHS on record.

Duncan has spent his entire career in nursing in the NHS and has held a variety of leadership and executive roles, including Executive Director of Nursing and Patient Experience at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation where he led the successful development and implementation of the trust’s award-winning dementia strategy.

Duncan is passionate about improving patient care and experience, improving the population’s health, growing, developing and nurturing the workforce, and inspiring the next generation of nursing and midwifery professionals and leaders.