Patricia Gordon

Chief Executive, South and East Belfast HSS Trust - Chair of Opportunity Now NI

Patricia Gordon is Chief Executive of South and East Belfast HSS Trust, which employs over 4,000 staff and has an annual budget of £159m.

Prior to this appointment Patricia was Chief Executive of the Mater Hospital Trust from 1995 - 2003. She began her career as a Clerical Officer in the Out-Patients Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Patricia Chairs the Regional Opportunity Now Forum for the Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety, she is a Director of the Chief Executives Forum, Chair of Business in the Community Opportunity Now Board and a member of the Board of Business in the Community, a lay member of The Queen’s University of Belfast Senate, a Member of the Institute of Healthcare Management and sits on the N.I. Divisional Council having been a former Chair of the Council from 1997 to 1999, a member of VAT Tribunal, a Governor of Strathearn School and a member of Cancer Lifeline, a cancer charity.

Patricia is married with 2 teenage children.