Birju Bartoli

Chief Executive

Birju Bartoli was named Executive Director of Performance and
Improvement in 2018 having previously been Executive Director of Systems, Strategy and Transformation​​​​​, before taking on the title of Chief Operating Officer in 2022. In 2023, it was announced that she was appointed as the new chief executive.

She was the project director for the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital which opened in June 2015, the first hospital of its kind in the UK.

Birju has worked for the trust since 2003 when she joined as an NHS management trainee and over the years has worked in a number of operational areas from manager to deputy director level.

She holds a number of healthcare qualifications including an applied biochemistry degree and a PhD in cancer research.