For the past four years, Cline has been the joint CIO for London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Before that, he was director of ICT programmes at Imperial College Healthcare.

He provided leadership for the implementation of the single electronic patient record (EPR) system across the four trusts in the acute provider collaborative.

Cline replaces Kevin Jarrold who is retiring after 38 years with the NHS.