Dr Simon Le Clerc is a dual-accredited consultant in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, with over 25 years’ leadership experience across the NHS, Armed Forces, charitable and private healthcare sectors, and strong regional ties to Yorkshire and the North East.
Simon now works as a portfolio Independent Non-Executive Director and Board Advisor, supporting organisations operating in high-risk, high-pressure environments with governance, risk, quality and duty of care oversight.
Alongside his Non-Executive roles, he holds fractional senior clinical governance positions within global healthcare organisations, providing strategic oversight to complex international operations.
He previously held senior executive and clinical leadership roles, including Medical Director positions within air ambulance and remote medical services, and served as an NHS Consultant in Emergency and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Defence Medical Services, where he helped establish and led the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) in Afghanistan.
Simon is a former Honorary Lecturer at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and Teesside University, and a recipient of a Churchill Fellowship. He brings extensive experience in clinical assurance, patient safety, emergency preparedness, workforce wellbeing and organisational resilience, and holds portfolio trustee and advisory appointments within the air ambulance and emergency care sector.
At Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Simon is a member of the Quality Assurance Committee and the Perinatal Improvement Assurance Committee and is the NED Champion for Health & Wellbeing Guardian