Kate Lampard CBE

Biography

Kate Lampard CBE was the lead non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care from November 2017 to September 2023.

Kate is the chair of GambleAware and works as an independent consultant undertaking investigations and advising organisations on management and service effectiveness and development.

She led the NHS investigations into Jimmy Savile and produced a report for the Secretary of State for Health setting out the lessons for today’s health service.

She was commissioned by the board of Serco Plc to investigate the treatment of residents at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre and by G4S Plc to undertake an independent investigation into Brook House immigration removal centre. In 2019 to 2020 Kate led a review and produced a report for the Home Office on the Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System.

Previously Kate spent 13 years as a practising barrister before moving into the public sector where she held a number of non-executive appointments. Kate has been the chair of the South East Coast Strategic Health Authority, vice chair of the South of England Strategic Health Authority and a non-executive director and vice chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service Limited. She acted as interim chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.

Kate is a trustee of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Royal Horticultural Society.