Steven Peak has joined mobile healthcare facilities provider Vanguard Healthcare as a business development director.

In the newly-created role, he will be responsible for identifying and building longer term partnerships as well as leading the company’s community-based healthcare programmes.

Peak has extensive experience in the acute hospital sector and previous roles include board posts at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham Women’s NHS Hospital Foundation Trust and the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust. Currently, he is a non-executive director for Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust.

Ian Gillespie, chief executive of Vanguard, said: “It’s excellent to have someone as knowledgeable and committed to seeing positive improvement within the NHS leading our development.”