Chief Executive
BSC (Hons) PHD
Tim Riley joined Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust in October 2006 after five years as joint Chief Executive of Trafford North PCT and Trafford South PCT.
Schooled in the city of Armagh, Ireland, Tim has a PhD in Molecular Biology from Kings College, Cambridge University.
Postdoctoral fellowships in Cambridge and London with work in the UK and the US followed, before a move to the AIDS/HIV Clinical programme where Tim helped set up and administer the new anti-retroviral trials. Tim joined the Department of Health to establish the NHS research and development programme in 1991 and went on to become Head of NHS Public Health Policy in 1994.
Working for the Chief Medical Officer and the Secretary of State, Tim set up the National Screening Committee, co-developed the National Performance Assessment framework for the NHS, introduced “league tables” for hospital mortality rates and led the team to develop and implement the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. In 2000 he went on to pursue a secondment at Wigan and Bolton Health Authority as an Executive Director to the Health Authority.
His professional interests are in getting people the services they need and revitalising customer values in the NHS, plus developing business relationships in all market sectors that would enable the Trust to improve.