Salman was appointed chief executive on 1 January 2025 following a period as the trust’s acting chief executive.

Salman has over 25 years of service in the NHS, initially training as a paramedic, a registration he still holds today, before moving into other roles. He has worked across various sectors covering the ambulance service, acute sector, and wider public sector where his work focused on preventing death from drug use among marginalised communities in Greater Manchester.

More recently, he has been the chief operating officer and leading on strategic planning, transformation of trust resilience following the pandemic and developing a partnership and integration function that will help with influencing and working more effectively across the multiple systems and places we serve. He joined the board of directors in 2015 as associate director of strategy and planning.