# Laura Skaife-Knight

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## TL;DR

NHS leader who has been Chief Executive of NHS Grampian, the health board that runs the ANCHOR Centre at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, since September 2025.

## Summary

Laura Skaife-Knight is Chief Executive of NHS Grampian, the Scottish health board responsible for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and its ANCHOR Centre for cancer and haematology care. She joined NHS Grampian as chief executive in September 2025 after serving as chief executive of NHS Orkney from 2023 to 2025, and was previously deputy chief executive at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, where she was part of the executive team that led the trust out of special measures. Her board biography describes more than 20 years in the NHS, including board-level communications roles, and involvement in Scotland's national reform and renewal agenda. The Grampian NHS Board page lists her alongside chair Alison Evison and medical director Hugh Bishop.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; hospital-management
- Role: Chief Executive, NHS Grampian
- Specialisms: Health board leadership; NHS management; Communications and partnership working

## Sources

- Source: Grampian NHS Board membership page: https://www.nhsgrampian.org/about-us/grampian-nhs-board/
- Source: NHS Grampian chief executive biography: https://www.nhsgrampian.org/siteassets/about-us/nhsg-board/laura_skaife-knight_biography.pdf

## Connected records

- institutions: [ANCHOR Centre, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary](https://onco.cc/institutions/anchor-centre-aberdeen/)

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