Meghana Pandit

Meghana was a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Clinical Director and Divisional Director at Milton Keynes University Hospital before joining University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) where she was Chief Medical Officer from May 2012 to December 2018 and Deputy Chief Executive from 2015. Meghana was part of the team at UHCW that led the partnership with Virginia Mason Institute, Seattle, USA. Meghana completed an MBA at Oxford Brookes University (Distinction) and the Innovating Healthcare for Tomorrow Program at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (2015). Meghana was awarded the Founding Senior Fellowship of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management in 2015, is Honorary Professor at Warwick University and Fellow at Exeter College, University of Oxford.

Meghana was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) in July 2022 (fixed term until substantive appointment in February 2023). OUH is one of the largest acute, university teaching hospitals in the country with 14,000 staff who deliver care on 4 sites and across 45 community locations. As CEO, Meghana made ‘people’, ‘patient care’, ‘performance’ and ‘partnerships’ her 4 key strategic pillars and has focused on the OUH People Plan, productivity and delivery of compassionate and excellent patient care underpinned by the highest levels of research and innovation, and through embedding quality improvement across the organisation.

Meghana has been appointed as National Medical Director in the NHS Transformation Executive team and took up this important national leadership role on an 18-month secondment with effect from 1 April 2025.