He was previously the director general of NHS finance, performance and operations.
Flory was said by the Health Service Journal to be the fourth most powerful person in the English NHS in December 2013.
[3] The payment was described as "in accordance with a settlement agreement agreed on completion of a fixed-term appointment set out in 2012."
A ceiling of £160,000 on termination payments in the public sector was proposed by the British Government, to come into force in December 2015.
[citation needed] In 2021 he was chair of Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated care system and interim chair of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System.