Paul was appointed as Independent Chair of the Hertfordshire and West Essex Sustainability and Transformation Partnership in 2018 and guided our system to gain Integrated Care System status in 2020. Paul is passionate about mental health. He served as Minister of State for Care at the Department of Health from 2010-12, where he drafted ‘No Health Without Mental Health’, a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages. Paul served in Parliament for 18 years until 2015 and was appointed to Her Majesty’s Privy Council in 2012.
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Rt. Hon. Paul Burstow
ICB Chair