Alison Haughton

Non-Executive Director

Alison has enjoyed a distinguished career in healthcare leadership, most latterly as Chief Executive Officer at Saint Mary’s Hospital Manchester, part of the Manchester NHS Foundation Trust Group. Within her role, Alison was accountable for the safe, efficient, sustainable, and effective development and delivery of services, ensuring that the needs of the service users were front and centre.

With a strong track record of managing transformational change, Alison has a passion to use her position to make a difference, to contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of communities, reducing inequalities, celebrating diversity. Aligned to Belong’s vision, she is a believer in creating vibrant opportunities that support people to thrive, to live full and active lives and to achieve their potential.

Alison is a proud Registered Nurse and, prior to retirement, worked within the NHS for all of her professional career, undertaking a wide variety of clinical and senior leadership roles underpinned by the values of care, kindness and compassion that inspired her to begin her career within nursing.

Outside of work, Alison enjoys spending time with family, walking with Monty and Bertie, the family dogs, and she is slowly embarking on her lifetime ambition of learning to play the piano.