Saffron has been NHS Providers interim chief executive since June 2022, having been deputy chief executive since 2018. She has worked in the healthcare sector since 2007.
Saffron has extensive experience in policy development, influencing and communications. Before moving into healthcare, Saffron was head of public affairs at the Local Government Association, the voice of local councils in England. Her early career focused on influencing EU legislation and policy development, and she started working life in adult and community education.
She has a degree in Modern Languages from the University of Manchester, for ten years was a board member and then chair of a 16–19 college in Hampshire and is a trustee of GambleAware, a leading charity committed to minimising gambling-related harm.
Contact Saffron: saffron.cordery@nhsproviders.org
Saffron Cordery says nobody in the NHS wants people hanging on for treatment, as a newspaper poll reveals what people think should be top NHS priorities for the new prime minister.
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Saffron Cordery sets out the steps we have taken since the publication of our report 'Race 2.0 Time for real change', and what you can expect from our Race Equality programme over the next few months.
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Saffron Cordery surveys the scene as trusts have their say on government's New Hospital Programme.
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Saffron Cordery and Daren Mochrie, the chair of Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, discuss the challenge of tackling handover delays for trusts working in systems.
Saffron Cordery discusses the key role trusts in systems will play in driving transformation, as integrated care systems become statutory bodies under the new Health and Care Act.
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Saffron Cordery discusses the findings from NHS Providers' latest report on the financial and performance ask for trusts in 2022/23.
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Saffron Cordery shares her reflections on two years of NHS Providers' Digital Boards programme in partnership with Public Digital and supported by HEE and NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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Saffron Cordery discusses how trusts, and their staff, are bearing down on waiting lists which have grown during the pandemic.
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Saffron Cordery and Matthew Taylor discuss what recent funding announcements mean for the NHS and why expectations need to be managed.
This briefing highlights the leading role trusts can play in creating lasting change in how inequalities in care are understood and dealt with across the NHS.
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On World Mental Health day, Saffron Cordery discusses the urgent need to tackle the mental health care backlog and what mental health services need from the upcoming comprehensive spending review.
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Saffron Cordery and Martin Marshall discuss the divisive debate on access to NHS services from the perspective of trusts and general practice.
