Jo Beer

Chief Executive, Sirona care & health

Providing knowledge and perspective of Adult and Children’s Community Services

Jo is an experienced NHS executive with over 39 years in healthcare, including more than a decade at Board level across acute, community and integrated care settings.

Originally trained as both an adult and children’s nurse, Jo has held a range of executive clinical and operational leadership roles across multiple providers. She combines a strong clinical foundation with strategic and operational expertise and has a proven track record of leading performance improvement, transformation and recovery in complex and challenged organisations.

Before joining Sirona, Jo served for over five years as Chief Operating Officer at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, a major tertiary, teaching and integrated care provider serving more than two million people. In this role, she led large-scale service transformation, performance recovery and innovation programmes.

Jo also led the procurement and establishment of Plymouth’s Integrated Care Provider and has held executive and joint executive roles within community and local authority providers, giving her a distinctive perspective on system integration and social-enterprise leadership.

She is passionate about inclusion and equity, having served as Executive Sponsor for BAME staff networks and led several cultural and leadership development initiatives. Beyond her NHS career, Jo is a Trustee Director of Plymouth Access to Housing (PATH), supporting people facing homelessness and complex lives, and co-founded a health-outreach programme in Ghana focused on improving health and education in rural communities.