Chair of the Committee

Biography 
​​​​​​​Commodore Ali Hofman is a career military nurse, joining the Royal Navy in 1989 to undertake student nurse training she qualified as a Registered Nurse in 1992, further qualifying as a Critical Care Specialist in 1997. She later commissioned from the rank of Petty officer, graduating from BRNC Dartmouth in 1999.

She has extensive operational experience in clinical and healthcare leadership and management roles, completing operational tours of Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, and also has NHS experience with clinical postings to Portsmouth, Plymouth and Birmingham.

She has a broad portfolio of staff roles at Lt Cdr and Cdr, including career management, health care commissioning, command and operational and planning roles. In Oct 2008-Apr 09 she deployed to Afghanistan and Commanded the British Military Hospital at Camp Bastion in support of 3 Cdo Bde Royal Marines and the wider NATO mission. In 2012 she completed a second tour of Afghanistan as the Medical Ops and Plans Officer in the UK Logistic HQ and then returned to Royal Centre of Defence Medicine as the Second in Command, which included 4 months as interim Commanding Officer, prior to a spell as SO1 Med Plans in Main Building.

Promoted Capt Jul 2015 she was the Defence Nursing Advisor in Surgeon General’s HQ where she was responsible for central strategy and policy for Defence Nursing and in Aug 2018, she was appointed to Navy Command Headquarters as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff Health and Head of the Naval Nursing Service. In Nov 2019 she assumed Command of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre Stanford Hall, leading it through the immediate response and initial stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In Aug 2020, on promotion to Commodore she moved into the Defence Safety Authority as Head Defence Medical Services Regulator; responsible for assurance, regulation and enforcement of Defence delivered healthcare. She assumed her current role as Head Navy Healthcare and Head of the Royal Navy Medical Service in Mar 23.