Sir Nick Partridge has worked for the Terrence Higgins Trust since 1985 and was appointed its Chief Executive in 1991.
Over the past twenty years Nick has been a consistent voice in the media coverage of AIDS and sexual health in all its aspects from health promotion, social care and advocacy to research and treatment issues.
The Terrence Higgins Trust has negotiated 20 mergers with other charities in the last eight years and now has over 1,000 volunteers and 300 staff providing a wide range of sexual health and HIV services.
Nick is Chair of INVOLVE, an advisory group promoting public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research. Since1986, Nick has been involved in the design and delivery of a number of MRC funded HIV clinical trials, including the Concorde, Alpha and Delta trials. These made significant contributions to the better clinical management of HIV and Nick led significant patient involvement in each of the trials. He is currently Deputy Chair of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration.
In 2004, Nick was appointed a Commissioner of the Healthcare Commission, the independent inspectorate responsible for reviewing the quality of healthcare in England.