Caroline Clarke
Caroline Clarke joined the board of trustees in June 2020.
Caroline is the regional director for the NHS in London. She was previously group chief executive of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, following her role as deputy chief executive for the previous seven years.
Caroline was the trust’s chief finance officer between 2011 and 2018 and in 2012 she was made the finance director of the year by the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She was formerly director of strategy at NHS North Central London. Prior to that she was an associate partner in KPMG’s health strategy team.
She has spent most of her career in NHS finance, having been director of finance at the Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and City and Hackney Primary Care Trust.
Caroline is a trustee of Overcoming MS and the 2020 President of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), the representative body for finance staff in healthcare.
She said: “The Royal Free Charity is an invaluable partner to the Royal Free London. I’m thrilled to be able to work with the charity to make sure that we give our population and patients the best services and that our staff have the greatest possible experience. This partnership will achieve so much that our founder William Marsden would be proud of.”
