Sara Hurley
Sara Jane Hurley is the Chief Dental Officer.
Hurley qualified from the University of Bristol Dental School in 1988 with a BDS. She was commissioned into the Royal Army Dental Corps, and gained an MSc in Dental Public Health in 2004 from University College London. She went on to work at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, and was appointed Chief Dental Officer for the Army.
She was appointed by NHS England as Chief Dental Officer in August 2015.
In 2020, Hurley issued instructions to suspend and resume primary care dentistry during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.
