Professor Karen Dawber 

Chief Nurse

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

Karen was appointed Chief Nurse at the Trust in August 2016, prior to this Karen has worked in Executive roles in three Foundation Trusts and has over 15 years of experience at Board level. An experienced nurse and service manager, she started her career as a paediatric nurse at Manchester Children’s Hospital before moving into general management and transformational work.

Karen has a reputation for delivering, developing and initiating high quality services. Karen is passionate about patient quality and the impact that well-led and motivated staff have on the care we are able to give to patients.

Karen was named in the inaugural list of Health Service Journal’s LGBT leaders and takes a keen and active interest in the equality and diversity agenda.

Karen is an Honorary Professor at the University of Bradford.