Sean Duggan OBE

Sean is currently Chair of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and was the former CEO of the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network from 2016 until May 2024. Sean has been dedicated to raising standards of care and treatment of mental health services and improving lives of those who use services and their carers for over 40 years since training as a mental health nurse in 1979. Sean is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health and in 2013 was awarded the President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Sean was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Honours List in recognition of his 40 years of service dedicated to mental health service delivery.