David Sloman
Sir David Morgan Sloman is the NHS Regional Director for London. He was previously chief executive officer of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2009 to 2018. He was knighted in 2017 for his services to the NHS. Career. He was chief executive officer of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust from 2009 to 2018. In 2016 he also became interim accountable officer at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, as part of the Royal Free's hospital chain project. In 2016 the "Health Service Journal" named him as the third-most influential CEO in  the National Health Service. In 2015 he was paid £240,000. Sloman was a keen advocate of the Royal Free Trust's collaboration with DeepMind which, he said, could free up over half a million hours per year currently spent on paperwork and help improve patient safety. However, the Trust's transfer of 1.6 million patients' data to UK artificial intelligence firm DeepMind (acquired by Google in 2013), failed to comply with the Data Protection Act and was illegal, as "Royal Free should have gained the consent of patients before handing the personally identifiable medical records to DeepMind for processing