He was Director of Estates for the West Midlands Regional Health Authority in the early 1990s and then Director of Purchasing Development when the health care market was introduced. In 1995 he left the RHA and established his own consultancy firm providing advice to Trusts on strategic and estates planning and on directing major hospital development schemes. In 2000 he was appointed as a non-executive director of Sandwell Health Authority in the West Midlands and from 2002 to 2012 he was a Primary Care Trust Chairman in Sandwell during which time (2008) the PCT won the coveted HSJ Primary Care Organisation of the Year award. He is currently a Lay Member with Sandwell & West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group. He was President of IHEEM from 2004 – 2006.