Harry Cayton OBE

National Director for Patients & the Public, Department of Health

 

Harry Cayton is National Director for Patients & the Public at the Department of Health where he advises Ministers, senior officials and the NHS on the involvement of patients & the public, on improving patients experience and on building a patient centred health service. He continues to work one day a week in the voluntary sector to keep in touch with service users issues and priorities.

 

He has produced reports for the Department of Health on the reform of dental charges, the regulation of cosmetic surgery, information governance in the NHS, on patient and public Involvement and on the role of the arts in health. He chaired the Ministerial Taskforce on the Summary Care Record and is chair of the Care Record Development Board.

 

Before joining the Department of Health in 2003 he was chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society for 12 years and before that of the National Deaf Children’s Society.

 

Harry Cayton received the OBE in 2001, the Alzheimer Europe Award in 2003 and was made Distinguished Graduate of the University of Ulster in 2004. In 2007 he was given a Life-Time Achievement Award by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a awarded a Fellowship through Distinction by the Faculty of Public Health.