Boris Johnson (2019–2022) Liz Truss (2022) Matt Hancock (2018-2021) Sajid Javid (2021-2022) Steve Barclay (2022, 2022–2023) Sir David Behan CBE (born November 1955) is a British public servant who was previously the Chair of Health Education England.

[4] Behan began his career as a social worker,[5] progressing as a manager in Wakefield, Avon[6] and Cleveland.

[13] The Government originally intended the duty to be limited to cases of "severe harm" – when a patient had been killed or left permanently disabled, as a wider reporting requirement could inundate organisations with unnecessary bureaucracy.

He was presented with a City and Guilds fellowship in October 2016 and awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Health by the University of Bradford in 2017.

In November 2018, he was appointed as a non-executive director for HC-One, the largest care home operator in Britain.

[19] In November 2018, Behan said that he advocated the creation of a compulsory insurance scheme with payments taken out of salaries, and for equity to be taken out of pensioners' homes in order to pay for care.