Deputy Director for Reciprocal Healthcare, Department of Health and Social Care

Dr Tim Baxter is Deputy Director for Reciprocal Healthcare at DHSC. In his role, Dr Baxter leads on technical discussions with EU and EEA/EFTA States on reciprocal healthcare arrangements in the event of a no deal exit of the UK from the European Union.

He is also the former Deputy Director for Healthy Behaviours at the Department of Health in London. His work covered alcohol, drugs, nutrition, physical activity for adults, sexual and reproductive health and tobacco control.

Tim joined the Department of Health in 1991 after completing academic research. Since then, he has worked in a range of policy roles, including tobacco control, mental health and primary care policy, run a judicial inquiry and led work on legislation. He also worked on several change management programmes. Tim worked within the National Health Service for eighteen months, including a year as Director of Strategy at University Hospital Lewisham NHS Trust, and then led a review of the UK response to the 2009 Influenza Pandemic. After returning to the Department in 2010, Tim led the reforms to the public health system in England before working on the response to Ebola and taking forward work on global health security.