 In December 2014 he was appointed as the Chair of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to begin in June 2015.In October 2016, Kerslake became Chair of the Board of Governors at Sheffield Hallam University.In December 2017, he resigned as Chair of King's College Hospital Trust in protest at what he described as "dire NHS funding problems", and calling for "a fundamental rethink (of)... the way that the NHS is funded and organised".