Rebekah Cresswell is Chief Executive Officer of Priory, the UK’s leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care services. She holds a nursing degree from the University of Liverpool, and a Masters in Health Service Management from Manchester Business School. Over the course of her career, Rebekah has held senior managerial roles across the UK healthcare sector, including as Head of Governance & Quality Improvement at NHS Stockport, and then as Assistant Director of Clinical Quality & Patient Safety at NHS Northwest Strategic Health Authority. Rebekah joined Priory in 2012 and became Chief Operating Officer of its Adult Care division in 2018 where she led 240 sites across the UK. She was appointed Priory’s first female CEO in November 2021 following Priory’s merger with MEDIAN Germany.