Conor Burke is Managing Director at CPB Healthcare Consulting, an independent management consultancy that builds bridges between NHS  systems and providers, innovators, health-tech companies, pharmaceuticals, and investors to help transform the delivery of health and care. CPB helps clients understand and navigate the healthcare market, shape and better position offers with healthcare buyers, and then create the right relationships that win more business.  

He is a Non-Executive Director for Herts Urgent Care (HUC) who provides  Integrated Urgent Healthcare and NHS Primary Care services across  Hertfordshire, West Essex, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, Bedfordshire & Luton. He is also a Mentor at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Health supporting health-tech start-ups and early-stage companies to grow.  

Conor is a former NHS leader who began his career as an Occupational Therapist working as a clinician and then NHS manager in London. Until  2018 he was CEO of Barking & Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge Clinical Commissioning Groups where he led a series of major performance, quality, and financial turnaround initiatives locally and across London. 

As the Chair of the North East London STP Transformation Board and Co-Chair of the London Urgent & Emergency Care Improvement Board, he led the development of a new system model of urgent and emergency care as one of the 8 national vanguards. He knows how the NHS works at the  “sharp-end” and how systems operate.