Mike Farrar

Mike Farrar CBE (born in 1960) was Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation from 2011 until October 2013.

Prior to working for the NHS, he worked for Grand Metropolitan UK Ltd and pursued early aspirations to play professional football and cricket,[1] playing semi-professionally for Rochdale Football Club and as a fast bowler for Littleborough Cricket Club.

[2] He was appointed to the board of Sport England in April 2005 and acted as the interim chair from December 2007 following the resignation of Derek Mapp.

[9] In addition, he is a member of the National Migration Impact Forum, which is a Ministerial sounding Board for immigration policy (including the new points based migration system) Mike Farrar has now resigned from the NHS altogether, and started a consulting business, Mike Farrar Consulting Lmt.

[10] In February 2025 it was announced that he will take up the role of interim Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Department of Health in April 2025[11] following the retirement of Peter May.