Dr Adam Turner

National Head of Health and Wellbeing, NHS England

Adam’s mission is caring for people, who care for others - empowering organisational performance through its workforce. 


Aligned to this, Adam nationally leads on improving the health and wellbeing of healthcare staff for the entire NHS in England. His work focuses on improving workforce health and releasing productivity through culture change, service transformation, and workforce development, impacting all 1.5 million English healthcare workers, who then go on to care for the 56 million people living in England. 


Adam has a rich variety of experience in health and wellbeing, HR and organisational development, leadership development, service improvement, education, and research, and has led a diversity of transformational portfolios at organisation, system, and national levels. Adam is a Fellow of CIPD and holds a PhD in the personal resilience of executive leaders.