On the 1st of November decontamination services transferred from Essentia at GSTT to the Royal Free London [...]
RFLPS Catering at the Royal Free Hospital site, has received a bronze Food for Life Served Here [...]
The Royal Free Charity (RFC) in conjunction with our RFLPS catering colleagues is supporting the Pears building [...]
Mark Wittich
Director PFI
Before being appointed PFI Director in October 2024, Mark was Skanska UK’s Regional Healthcare Director
responsible for delivering Skanska’s PFI obligations at the St Bartolomew, the Royal London and Royal Papworth
hospitals.
Prior to joining Skanska, Mark was Regional Director at Carillion responsible for the John Radcliffe, Churchill and
Nuffield hospitals and all local authority properties in the Oxford region with additional responsibility for supporting
Carillion’s healthcare interests in Qatar.
Previous to his work at Carillion, Mark was UK Director for Healthcare operations at Mitie and Sodexo and corporate
operations at ISS, partnering the NHS since 2008.
Mark began his career in retail, with Halfords, John Lewis Partnership, Vodafone UK and ASDA Wallmart and holds a Post Graduate
Diploma in Business Management.
Jeremy Sharp
Director of Customer Experience
Jeremy Sharp began his NHS career as an NHS Hotel Services National Trainee and since then has held several senior facilities management posts throughout the southwest, midlands and been London based since 2001. Exposure at senior management level in primary care, specialist acute and the acute environment delivering facilities management services ranging from in-house operations, direct contract management, within retained estate and PFI environments. Jeremy engages with teams to deliver FM services that not only deliver compliance but also ensure that every service area and individual aims to deliver a first-class staff and patient experience.
Maggie Robinson BA Hons MRICS is the Director of Property, a property professional operating at director level in the NHS since 2009. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience including from the private sector she provides expert advice on asset management relating to land and buildings. She leads a multi discipline team focussed on facilitating delivery of clients business and clinical strategies, delivering optimised value to support realisation of organisational and NHS objectives for benefit of patients and staff. Areas of expertise include master planning, town planning and disposal/partnering opportunities; management of keyworker accommodation, workplace and space planning strategies and general estate management. During tenure at RFL has orchestrated and overseen delivery of over £150m from disposals. She is an active and widely respected member of the STP estates board and provider representative on the London Estates Delivery Unit with excellent system connections.
Dan Baker
Director of Transformation
With over 10 years of healthcare and change management experience Dan has worked on multi-million pound projects for clients at the forefront of NHS innovation. Dan leads a team of dynamic, Transformation professionals with a relentless drive to improve outcomes and experiences for staff, patients and clients by changing the way complex project delivery is understood and executed. Dan is passionate about ensuring that the built environment for the NHS truly represents modern day innovation and benefits from technological advancements that are commonplace in other 21st century buildings. He does this by working with clients to ensure their project benefits are fully realised and that the built environment for the NHS and beyond reflects what our patients deserve from healthcare facilities. Dan’s wealth of experience in both healthcare operations and change management have shaped his experience of how transformation should be undertaken in order to deliver long lasting benefits to clients and their patients.
Steve Last
Director of Estates & Facilities, Royal Free/ Chase Farm
Steve Last has over two decades of experience in the NHS, having served at various prominent London Trusts. He believes in a hands-on approach, preferring a back-to-the-floor working style to understand and address challenges directly. An avid cyclist, Steve often explores the scenic routes of the Essex and Suffolk countryside. In his spare time, he enjoys perusing Autotrader, scouting for his next car.
Paddy Hennessy
Technical Operations Director
With a background in construction management and building surveying, Paddy worked in various roles in the construction industry and Local Authority in Ireland prior to moving to the UK in 2009. Since then, he has held a number of senior leadership positions in Acute NHS organisations in the London area, focusing on Estate, Facilities and Capital delivery functions. Paddy enjoys working in challenging and complex environments, and always strives to improve and enhance facilities for the benefit of patients, visitors and staff.
Joined the NHS in 2002 and held a number of Estates & Facilities Director and Workforce and Procurement roles prior to being appointed as Managing Director of RFLPS in 2018. Prior to 2002 Andrew worked in commercial design, surveying and project management consultancy for over 18 years. Andrew has a successful track record of establishing and leading commercial and healthcare property organisations, formulating policy, transforming operational service delivery of project and front line services across a variety of estates and delivering strategic developments. Andrew had led the construction of hospitals, business parks, courts, offices, shopping centres and residential developments.
Director Capital Projects
Brian Pratt is Chartered Quantity Surveyor by background and is our Director Capital Projects and interim Director of Estates for the RFL Trust and wider RFLPS business. With over 25+ year’s experience, Brian has worked around the World in multidisciplinary organisations leading on the successful delivery of multi-billion pound iconic, complex and ground-breaking projects and programmes. Leading the RFLPS and Trusts response to Covid19 during the first and second waves, Brian led the Capital and Estates teams delivering urgent critical infrastructure changes whilst working in and around Covid live environments.