Stuart Bell

Chief Executive Officer , South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Stuart has been Chief Executive of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust since it was formed in 1999. It became a Foundation Trust in 2006.

After reading Modern History at Oxford University, he joined the NHS in 1982 and has held senior planning and service management roles in acute teaching and general hospitals and has had responsibility for organisational development and performance management at a regional level.

In 1996 he was seconded to the Department of Health as Head of NHS Performance. He is co-editor and co-author of ‘Management for Psychiatrists (3rd edition)’ Royal College of Psychiatrists 2007. He is the author of the report commissioned by the Department of Health in 2007: ‘The Impact of the NHS Research and Development Strategy on Mental Health Services and Research in England’. South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a history dating back to the foundation of Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1247 – the oldest psychiatric institution in the world and still the major centre for specialist and tertiary psychiatric inpatient services. The Maudsley Hospital was founded 100 years ago by Henry Maudsley to establish a centre of excellence devoted to treatment and care of mental illness, linked to research and teaching.