Alison McCree is currently employed as the Associate Director of Facilities and Performance at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. She is recognised as an experienced healthcare professional with a proven track record of sustained innovation and achievement in the delivery of Facilities Management Services.

Her day-to-day responsibilities include the leadership of 400 staff who deliver a range of Facilities Services across eight hospital sites and 56 Health Centre premises. Alison’s current role focuses on being responsible and accountable for the strategic and operational services that impact on the patient’s journey and experience, co-ordination and management of the Trust’s estate, including acquisitions and disposals of owned or leased land and property, along with the EFM governance and the performance agenda.

Under Alison's leadership the Trust’s services have achieved measurable improvements for patients, visitors and staff. These improvements have been recognised at a national level from which the Trust is used nationally as a benchmark for the delivery of Facilities Management Services.

Alison was National Chairman of the Hospitals Caterers Association from 2004 to 2007; Chairman of Healthcare Caterers International, 2005 to 2006, and she has held the role of HefmA National Secretary since May 2006.