David Garbutt
Chair @Nhs Education For Scotland
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WORK HISTORY
Chair @Nhs Education For Scotland
Edinburgh, GB
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the healthcare workforce in Scotland. NES has a Scotland wide role in undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development and maintains a local perspective through centres in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.NES also cooperates and collaborates with regulatory bodies and other organisations that are concerned with the development of the health and care workforce for example the General Medical Council, universities and other professional bodies.Current appointments within this role:Chair NHS Chairs Group, Co Chair NES/GMC Health and Wellbeing Group, Chair NHS National Performance Management Committee, Chair NHS NES NDS (National Digital Service) Steering Group, Member Ministerial Strategic Group for Health and Social Care, Member Health and Social Care Delivery Plan National Programme Board, Member of NHS Everyone Matters Implementation Group, Member of Declarations of Interest Group, Member of NHS Global Citizenship Group, Member of the NHS Quality of Care Reference Group, Member NHS Leadership and Talent Management Board.Appointed Board Member Promise Scotland Board August 2022
EDUCATION
Edinburgh Napier University
HND in Police Studies, LLD
SKILLS
ABOUT DAVID GARBUTT
David Garbutt has held Chief Officer roles with Lothian and Borders Police, and Grampian Police, and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the 2001 New Year Honours. He was Assistant Inspector of Constabulary before his appointment as Director of the Scottish Police College between 1998 and 2006. He has been a member of the Board of the Scottish Leadership Foundation and the Justice Sector Skills Council and was a founder member of the EU Police College where he also served as its President. David has also been an adviser on police reform and transformational change in a number of countries. He is a graduate of the UK Police Strategic Command Programme and of the FBI National Executive Institute and has worked closely with a number of countries on Counter Terrorism issues. In 2002 he instigated and led the development of a Counter Terrorism Programme for Senior Police Leaders (LinCT) with the FBI, St Andrews University and Harvard University. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development and holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He was appointed as Chair of the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Board in April 2018, having previously served as Chair of the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Board for a period of nine years, leading SAS through a significant programme of transformational change and the implementation of a new strategic framework to deliver enhanced patient care. He was Chair of the NHS Chair’s Group from 2019 to 2021, Chair of the NHS Active Governance Reference Group and has implemented an extensive Quality Improvement development programme for Executive and Non-Executive Board members. He currently Chairs the NHS National Performance Management Committee and is a member of the Everyone Matters Implementation Group, the National Leadership Development Programme Board, and the NHS Corporate Governance Steering Group. In August 2022 he was appointed to the Board of The Promise Scotland representing the NHS Chair’s Group. In 2025 he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University for Leadership in the Health Service over many years, by the University of Strathclyde. He was the Chair of the Peeblesshire Committee of Macmillan Cancer Support for a number of years and is the Patron of the Scottish Police Memorial Trust.
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