NHS Lothian provides a comprehensive range of primary, community-based and acute hospital services for the populations of Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian and West Lothian.

NHS Lothian provides services for the second largest residential population in Scotland - circa 800,000 people. It employs 28,000 staff, including approximately 15,000 nurses (registered and unregistered) and midwives and around 2,700 medical staff.

At NHS Lothian we believe that working together across all areas of the health service is the best way to provide care for patients. Through an innovative programme of modernisation, we are developing into a single integrated health system.

Patients and staff are benefiting from the creation of a more streamlined, patient-centred structure and from our more integrated approach to planning and delivering healthcare services.

Executive Management Team Members

Mr Tim Davison, Interim Chief Executive

Mr Alan Boyter, Director of Human Resources

Dr David Farquharson, Medical Director, NHS Lothian

Mr Jim Forrest, Director, West Lothian Community Health & Care Partnership

Mr Peter Gabbitas, Director, Health & Social Care

Mrs Susan Goldsmith, Director of Finance

Mrs Melanie Hornett, Nurse Director

Dr Alison McCallum, Director of Public Health & Health Policy

Professor Alex McMahon, Acting Director, Strategic Planning and Modernisation

Mrs Jackie Sansbury, Chief Operating Officer, University Hospitals Division

Mr David Small, General Manager, Midlothian and East Lothian Community Health Partnerships