Ed Waller, Chief strategy and partnerships officer
Ed is chief strategy and partnerships officer at NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board.
Ed was previously deputy chief finance officer leading on strategic finance and planning at NHS England. He joined NHS Kent and Medway in March 2025.
Ed has held various senior roles at NHSE and in the Civil Service, including as director of primary care for England, in which he led development of the five-year contract deals for GPs and community pharmacists that supported the NHS Long Term Plan.
He was the NHS senior responsible officer for the response to Covid-19 across primary care; this included a period working as part of the successful Covid vaccination programme, where he was responsible for establishing arrangements for the network of GP and community pharmacy vaccination sites.
Ed's role at NHS Kent and Medway includes executive oversight of strategic transformational change programmes and strategic transformation. He is also responsible for development and delivery of our main integrated care board strategies, including Kent and Medway Integrated Care Strategy and the NHS Strategy for Kent and Medway.