Tony Matthews

Home » Our leadership » Tony Matthews

Director of Finance

Image of Tony Matthews
Tony Matthews, Director of Finance

Tony is responsible for our corporate, financial and commercial services. He has organisation-wide lead responsibility for customer financial services, business support (Carter) services and primary care support. Tony has over 30 years’ experience working in the NHS.

A former primary care trust, area team and CCG finance director, Tony is a leading commissioner and expert in financial strategy and reporting. He has worked at a national level with NHS England and with multiple partners across health systems. Tony also has experience of working within the NHS provider sector. He brings a relentless focus on service delivery and is constantly looking to improve services for customers and patients alike. Tony encourages staff to adopt the same approach and is always keen to ensure we meet customers’ needs as far as possible. He uses his broad range of experiences – from across the healthcare sector – to turn theory into practice and convert strategy into operational delivery.

Tony is proficient at working across health economies and helping to broker conversations between partners to achieve system goals and objectives. He made significant contributions to a ‘whole system’ redesign programme, encompassing a new hospital, and enhanced primary and community care infrastructure. This resulted in hospital activity being performed in primary and community settings instead.

Tony previously supported the national turnaround programme with NHS England specialised commissioning, successfully targeting delivery of a £300million QIPP programme in 2014/15. He has also led the financial turnaround of a primary care trust. More recently, Tony has led on our response to support the Carter (productivity) agenda and the development of innovative solutions to support and enhance the infrastructure within primary care.

Our people

Derek Kitchens headshot

Derek Kitchen

Managing Director

Janet Budds headshot

Janet Budd

Director of Strategy and Deputy Managing Director

Debbie Bywaters headshot

Debbie Bywater

Chief Information Officer

Dave Evanss headshot

Dave Evans

Director of Partnerships

Jonathan Horgans headshot

Jonathan Horgan

Director of Pharmacy Services

Tony Matthewss headshot

Tony Matthews

Director of Finance

Martin Popes headshot

Martin Pope

Director of Delivery, Midlands

Linda Rileys headshot

Linda Riley

Director of Funded Care

Sarah Sheppards headshot

Sarah Sheppard

Director of People

Peter Spilsburys headshot

Peter Spilsbury

Board Advisor and Director of the Strategy Unit

John Taylors headshot

John Taylor

Board Advisor

Ratna Taylors headshot

Ratna Taylor

Director of Transformation

Clare Thomasons headshot

Clare Thomason

Director of Delivery, North West

Elizabeth Millers headshot

Elizabeth Miller

Director of Nursing and Urgent Care

View all

How we can help health systems

Developing health systems

Acting as an independent and trusted partner within the system to facilitate working across stakeholders and integrate elements of the provider system…

Learn more about Developing health systems
Developing health systems

Workforce resilience and transformation

Supporting systems to build a sustainable and integrated workforce, transforming systems, organisations and the workforce experience to improve resilience.

Learn more about Workforce resilience and transformation
Workforce resilience and transformation

Communications and engagement

Supporting ICSs with approaches to design and deliver effective communication, engagement and behavioural insights as a key enabler for system change and…

Learn more about Communications and engagement
Communications and engagement

Digitally enabled transformation and IT

Digitising care and partnering with systems for the transformation of digitally enabled service delivery (and other supporting processes) across vision, planning and…

Learn more about Digitally enabled transformation and IT
Digitally enabled transformation and IT

PHM analytics and decision support

Applying intelligence-led understanding of the health of the population to support the redesign of care and improve patient and financial outcomes across…

Learn more about PHM analytics and decision support
PHM analytics and decision support

Place and primary care transformation

Supporting providers to work together at a place and neighbourhood level to manage common resources, integrate community teams, improve health and reduce…

Learn more about Place and primary care transformation
Place and primary care transformation

Clinical redesign and provider collaboration

Redesigning how health and care works across England - placing people at the centre of their own health and care and utilising…

Learn more about Clinical redesign and provider collaboration
Clinical redesign and provider collaboration

CHC and funded care

Providing end-to-end funded care services, including patients as active partners in identifying their healthcare needs and then commissioning care to meet these.…

Learn more about CHC and funded care
CHC and funded care

Business enabling services

Delivering a wide range of support functions through transactional services, business partnering and transformation that drives efficiencies and releases value and time…

Learn more about Business enabling services
Business enabling services

Accessibility Tools