Peter Homa

Peter Homa CBE is a health service manager.

He started work in the National Health Service in 1979 as a hospital porter after which he commenced the NHS National Management Training Scheme in London in 1981 and was chief executive at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1989, when it was one of two national pilot hospitals to achieve significant improvement in both the quality and efficiency of patient care.

He was appointed a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2000 for contributions to the health service.

He was the Chief Executive of the Commission for Health Improvement and was appointed as the first Chief Executive of the new Healthcare Commission which replaced it but resigned from the post at the request of the organisation's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy in April 2003. He went on to become chief executive of St George's Healthcare NHS Trust in November 2003.

He was an assessor in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry.

He is now Chief Executive of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. On 10 January 2017, Peter Homa announced that he would be resigning from Nottingham University Hospitals Trust by the end of the year.