About Us

Meet Dr Tim Riding

With over 40 years experience in the NHS from ward to boardroom, Tim brings a deep understanding of how healthcare services operate. alongside a career defined by leadership, resilience, and a commitment to improving mental health and learning disability services.

Tim began his career in frontline clinical practice, being appointed one of the first Nurse Consultants in the UK and went on to hold senior leadership roles across multiple organisations, including Associate Director at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Programme Director at Calderstones NHS Foundation Trust and Network Director at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.

In addition to his extensive leadership experience. Tim completed a PhD exploring sexual offending in people with learning disabilities, a field that reflects both his academic depth and his commitment to complex, often misunderstood areas of care. His work is consistently focused on balancing risk, dignity, and recovery in systems that are under constant pressure.

Outside of his professional life, Tim is someone who understands endurance in every sense of the word. Having completed over 12 ironman triathlons across Europe – including Ironman Barcelona as his final race – he brings that same discipline, focus, and long-term thinking to his consultancy work as he does to everything else in his life.

Today, through TCR Consultancy, Tim works with organisations to strengthen leadership, improve quality, and support teams working in high pressure health and care environments.

Services rarely fail overnight. Small gaps can go unnoticed, pressures build, and confidence starts to dip.

What matters most to Tim is simple: better outcomes for people, stronger systems for staff, and leadership that actually works when it’s needed most.