Gary is the Acting Director General for Commissioning and System Management at the Department of Health (DH).

Prior to this, Gary was the Director of Commissioning. He has over 25 years experience in the NHS and DH. His previous roles included Head of Primary Care at DH, Chief Executive of an NHS trust and Deputy Chief Executive of a community and mental health trust.

In his six years at DH, Gary has led the teams who created the models and policy for practice based commissioning and long-term conditions.
As Director of Commissioning, Gary was the architect of world class commissioning (WCC). This is seen as a leading edge development and the significant co-production with the NHS to create WCC, has set the standard for future policy development between DH and the NHS.