Introducing our new Chief Medical Officer: Ms Rantimi Ayodele

We are excited to announce that Ms Rantimi Ayodele will be joining us on Thursday 30 April 2026 as our new Chief Medical Officer.

Rantimi is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon and joins us from King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer. She has a huge amount of experience that will make a real difference to Whittington Health, and her passion for patients, and the communities they live in, really shone through across her interviews.

Many thanks to Clarissa Murdoch, who has been our Interim CMO while we recruited to this substantive position.

Rantimi said, “I’m delighted to be joining Whittington Health as Chief Medical Officer. I’m drawn to the organisation’s strong identity as an Integrated Care Organisation, its value to its local community and its commitment to compassionate, high-quality care. I’m looking forward to working with colleagues to strengthen quality, equity and improvement for the patients, staff and communities we serve.”

Ms Rantimi Ayodele: a short biography

Ms Rantimi Ayodele is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon and senior medical leader with extensive experience across acute and system leadership. She joins Whittington from King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she is the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and has held a number of senior roles including Medical Director for Strategy and Healthcare Equity, Interim Chief Medical Officer, and Site Medical Director at the Princess Royal University Hospital.

Her experience and portfolios have spanned clinical strategy, improvement methodologies and systems, leadership development, patient safety, governance, and healthcare equity. She has led trust-wide programmes including the rollout of the organisation’s improvement system and the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

Ms Ayodele has held regional and system leadership roles and is currently Joint Clinical Lead for Job Planning for NHSE London, as well as Senior Responsible Officer for a Clinical Network for the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative.

She brings a values-led, clinically grounded approach to leadership, with a focus on quality, equity, and creating conditions in which staff can thrive and provide quality, compassionate, and timely care to patients.