[2] He stepped down from the roles in March 2019,[3] around the time that management of both trusts was combined under the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group.
[5] In February 2014 he was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, to advise him how to "make it easy for NHS super-heads to take over struggling organisations".
[6] His report, produced in December 2014, suggested that concessions could be established by which companies are given contracts to operate publicly funded hospitals.
He points to Ribera Salud Grupo in Spain and AMEOS group in Germany and Austria as examples that could be followed.
[12] Dalton was knighted in the New Year Honours 2014 and was one of the top ten chief executives in the NHS in 2013 according to the Health Service Journal.