Our Executive team

Dr Vivienne McVey joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in August 2022 as Chief Executive.

She originally qualified as a doctor and worked as a full time GP before taking on a clinical leadership role within the NHS as Executive Chair of Chiltern and South Bucks Primary Care Trust. She left general practice in 2006 to help found a business, now known as the HCRG Care Group, providing transformational health and care services in the community on behalf of the NHS and local authorities.

Vivienne’s medical background and distinguished track record for building and running large, successful healthcare organisations will be key in supporting the ongoing improvement in the quality of care we provide for our patients and in helping the Charity innovate and develop the new services patients need. The work she has done in partnership with a wide variety of NHS organisations and Local Authorities will be invaluable as we expand our community-based services and deliver the exciting plans we have in both education and research.

Dr Sanjith Kamath has been a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2007, working in both the NHS and the private sector before joining St Andrew's Healthcare in 2012. He has an interest in service and business development and has been involved in medical leadership from early in his career, undertaking an MBA and becoming a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. He was appointed as the Executive Medical Director of St Andrew’s Healthcare in 2018 and is also the organisation's Deputy Chief Executive Officer.

Adam joined St Andrew's Healthcare in August 2023 as our Business Development Director. He has more than 20 years' experience working across the Life Sciences, Health and Social Care sector in a variety of commercial leadership roles including the Priory Group, Nuffield Health, BMI Healthcare and Elder.

He brings extensive knowledge of developing new services and generating long term growth and value for organisations.

In his role he will be responsible for leading growth across the Charity including our clinical services and education and research teams while supporting St Andrew's on delivering its mission.

He also leads on ensuring we have the right services to meet the complex needs of people and driving strategic development of new services across both inpatients and community settings, while also building strong partnerships across the wider health system.

Kevin joined St Andrew’s Healthcare during the height of the pandemic in May 2020, navigating his way in the new role as Finance Director during an extremely challenging period for healthcare. He quickly became familiar with the complexities, financial and operational challenges both within the charity and across the mental health sector.

Kevin has worked in the financial sector for 25 years, having started out as a trainee accountant. Since then he has continuously progressed and held various Senior Finance positions and prior to joining St Andrew’s Healthcare he was Finance Director at Maximus Ltd, an organisation helping people access health, employment and disability services.

Stacey has more than 20 years’ experience in Recruitment and Human Resources roles. She began her career in Recruitment working with a range of financial services and retail organisations, before moving into Generalist HR roles. Whilst working in central government, she was involved with and oversaw a number of large scale change programmes.

Stacey joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in 2014 and has held various roles in HR including HR Business Partner and Head of Reward. Stacey stepped into the role of Acting Director of HR in August 2023, before becoming HR Director in January 2024.

As well as overseeing HR initiatives across the Charity, Stacey’s current area of focus is working with her team to develop and aligning the Charity’s People Plan with the Charity strategy.

Originally qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and working across global organisations Anna joined St Andrew’s Healthcare in late 2019. This deliberate step into healthcare was driven by Anna’s desire to be part of a team dedicated to helping people transform their lives.

Anna spent the early part of her career at PwC working in Assurance. Then moving to Audi and the wider Volkswagen Group where she built a depth of experience across a variety of roles; business improvement, people development and innovation.

Since joining St Andrew’s Healthcare Anna has held roles as Deputy Director of Operations and Director of Performance. Since 2024 Anna has been accountable for the development and deployment of the Charity’s strategy – with a portfolio also covering: transformation, planning, communications and external affairs. Anna is the Executive sponsor for our Champion strategy and is passionate about embedding co-production within our culture.

Caroline joined the Executive team at St Andrew’s Healthcare in May 2025 as Chief Clinical Services Officer. A nurse by background, Caroline has a wealth of clinical and operational experience spanning across a wide range of regulated healthcare services.

Prior to joining St Andrew’s, Caroline held numerous board level positions, most latterly as Chief Quality and Operating Officer at Nuffield Health, and Partner at Management Solutions for Healthcare, where she worked with Healthcare at Home, A.S. Watson and the Pennine Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

In this new role, Caroline will bring together all inpatient Clinical Services and the specialist Quality function, and will be responsible for establishing operational excellence and the consistent delivery of high Quality services that meet regulatory requirements.