Angela Pedder

Dame Angela Pedder is a British health care administrator and NHS manager.

She started her career in the NHS as a management trainee in 1975. In 1987 she was appointed Unit General Manager of Community Services in North Hertfordshire and in 1991 Chief Executive of St Alban's & Hemel Hempstead NHS Trust.[1]

She was Chief Executive of Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust for 19 years and the leader of the Devon Sustainability and transformation plan until 2017. In 2014/15 she earned between £180,000 and £185,000.[2] In 2014, she used Twitter to criticise her trust when it sent a letter to a patient of whose death it had been notified who did not attend an appointment, and was criticised by the Patients Association.[3]

She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 New Year Honours.[4]

References
  1. "Interview with Angela Pedder". Ashfords. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  2. "Revealed: The NHS money saving director paid £340,000 a year and Devon's other top health earners". Devon Live. 28 March 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  3. "Devon hospital chief Angela Pedder criticised over tweets". BBC nerws. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  4. "Trust chiefs recognised in new year's honours". Health Service Journal. 2 January 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.


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