The Board

Darren Banks is the Interim Deputy Trust Chief Executive for MFT, and his substantive post is Chief Strategy Officer. Since joining in April 2006, Darren has led a number of major organisation-wide initiatives including the successful Foundation Trust application in January 2009 and the acquisition of Trafford Healthcare Trust in April 2012.

He was a member of the Greater Manchester Devolution Transition Team, helping to shape the governance arrangements linked to this historic agreement which has now matured into the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.

In his role as Chief Strategy Officer, Darren is responsible for all aspects of strategic planning and for providing an over-arching framework for the development of corporate and service strategy. He manages many of the Trust’s major stakeholder relationships and works closely with the hospital leadership teams to ensure that our service delivery and development plans support the achievement of our vision.

Darren is a qualified accountant and has held senior financial and operational management positions within the NHS prior to joining the team.