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NHS Networks Associates biographies

A - C      D - F     G - I     J - L     M - O     P - Q     R     S     T     U - W     X - Z

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• Coral Alexander
  Having spent the significantly largest proportion of my working life within the NHS, now four years later, I still work very closely, no longer as a senior manager, but as a service provider. Fascinating and rewarding it is too, particularly now, with NHS budgets such a priority and a discernable attitude shift in terms of commissioning plurality. My goal has never changed, I still get up every day hoping to make a positive difference in the lives of people who do not have the luxury of not thinking of their health needs. I create services that aim to really provide a focus on the end user, and to flexibly fit with the needs of the budget holders and other community providers (having been in these positions). I am a senior manager with Geneva Health International now, developing its community.  I don't believe that the public / private / voluntary splits can be beneficial to anyone so obviously really value the Network and look forward to learning from, and contributing to, our eternal search for perfection!  
• Kathie Andrews
  Kathie was Networks Support Officer at NHS Networks from 2005 to 2007. She now works for the Prince's Trust.
• Balvinder Atwal
• David Barlow
  David Barlow is Chairman of South Worcestershire PCT. He has senior private sector experience (the marketing of fast-moving consumer goods, both in the UK and overseas) and was a leading Councillor on both District and County Councils - where he gained, as a result of Compulsory Competitive Tendering, invaluable experience of the separation of purchasing/commissioning from providing.
• Karen Bell
  Karen Bell is Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Her previous roles include Chief Exec of Huntingdonshire PCT and Director of HR in local government and NHS. Karen has worked overseas as an HR/OD consultant to governments in South Africa, Namibia and Malawi.

• Lloyd Brackstone
  Lloyd Brackstone is a Locality Manager in Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT. He has worked in the NHS for 11 years and in primary care for more than six years in various organisations around the country. Lloyd is currently working with PBC and is a member of the Commissioning subgroup of the Associates Network.

• Sue Braysher
  Sue Braysher is Director of Contracting & Performance at West Sussex PCT, the 4th largest in the country. A qualified accountant who has previously held Finance Director posts having come through the FMTS training scheme, she has worked across all operational sectors (including acute and ambulance) at Board level over the past 12 years. She is responsible for Joint Commissioning, PLD, DAAT & Mental Health, and contracting with acute, primary & community service providers. She also holds the portfolios for Information & Informatics and is the Performance lead for the PCT. West Sussex have a Childrens Trust and are starting to think through the development of an Adults Trust along similar lines.

• Mike Burrows
  Dr Mike Burrows is Chief Executive of Salford Teaching PCT. A qualified accountant, he has a range of interests covering service integration, NHS Research & Development, NHS LIFT and pathology services. As a Chief Executive of a three-star Trust, Mike is keen to contribute to the discussion and debate regarding ‘new’ PCT organisation.
• John Butler
  John Butler is a PCT Chair, having held non executive director posts since 1990 on the FHSA and East Kent Health Authority. He has recently retired from the University of Kent where inter alia he lectured on British Politics and Public Administration. Since 1990 he has also chaired a committee for the Kent & Medway SHA area dealing with ‘Control of Entry’ issues under the NHS Pharmaceutical Services Regulations.
• Helen Campbell
• Sue Cavill
  Sue is the Associate Director for Communications and Engagement at Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT. From 2005 to 2007 she was Business Manager at NHS Networks.
• Christine Chapman
  Christine Chapman is a Service Improvement Consultant for South West London Improvement Academy amd was formerly Allied Health Professions and Healthcare Science Lead  with the Workforce Development Group at South West London SHA. She is a Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Institute of Biomedical Science, a Member of the Institute of Healthcare Management and also holds the CIM Diploma in Marketing. Christine’s current interests are in workforce development, professional leadership and clinical engagement.
• Dorothy Chiang
• Pepetua Chisenga
  Pepetua (Pepe) Chisenga is a qualified Chemist and an MBA graduate. Currently she is working as a Project Manager for Social Enterprise implementing the Cultural Shift Project for Portsmouth City Council. Pepe, who is a trained diplomat, has extensive experience from working within both the public and private sector and international development agencies.
• Jonathan Cook
  Jonathan Cook is Director of Corporate Services at Norfolk PCT and has a nursing and risk management background. Current skills in use are strategic planning around governance frameworks in the new commissioning world, audit (including standards for Better Health) and commissioning estates.  He also has responsibility for communications, PPI and Board support.

• Iain Corran. BDS LL.B M.A.
  Iain currently works part time for a NHS Social Enterprise Organisation, in Alfreton, Derbyhsire, Genesis Dental Care, the trading name for the East Midland Community Dental Association, a Not-for-Profit IPS and GDC Dental Body Corporate,delivering NHS dental care in PCT identified areas of dental need. Iain’s role focuses on dental legal work and  Clinical Governance.Additionally Iain is dental editor of the Christian Medical Fellowships “Developing Health” programme, a trustee of the dental charity Sunnymede Trust/Teeth Relief, advisor to the Resident Dentist Group UK and part-time associate dental-legal adviser with Dental Protection Ltd.

• Felicity Cox
  Felicity Cox is Chief Executive of Watford and Three Rivers PCT and Dacorum PCT. A qualified pharmacist, she holds an MBA and marketing qualifications and is interested in developing commissioning and building clinical relationships and buy-in. Felicity is on the NHS Networks Commissioning workstream.

• Robert Creighton
  Robert Creighton is the founding Chief Executive of Ealing PCT in west London (since 2002).  He is co-Chair of the NHS Confederation’s Future Healthcare Network, Chair of the London PCT Chief Executives’ Group, and active in a wide range of national and London-wide initiatives.  Previously he was Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust for six years (1995-2000), after which he spent a year working with the London Region and the NHS Confederation on broad policy issues, including the formation of PCTs and the negotiation of the new GMS contract. From 1988 to 1995 he was a senior civil servant in the Department of Health, which included two years as a Principal Private Secretary when Virginia Bottomley was Secretary of State. For the previous 16 years he worked in the education sector, firstly as a teacher and then as a senior manager in the headquarters of an internal education charity.

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• Chris Dabbs
  Chris Dabbs is Chief Executive of the Community Health Action Partnership in Salford. He also works as a Futurologist, and is a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. Chris coordinates our Social Enterprise Network and is interested in happiness, asset-based approaches, citizenship and relationship-centred services.
• David Dawes
  David Dawes is Founder and Director of the European Nursing Leadership Foundation, a social enterprise established in 2003. A nurse and former NHS Chief Executive, he is interested in the development of social enterprises, leadership development for clinicians and the use of internet technologies in developing and supporting clinicians. David is a member of the Social Enterprise and Corporate working groups and contributes to the strategic planning of this work.
• Pam Deeley
• Mike Dennis
  Mike Dennis is PEC Chair ofWarrington PCT. He has been a GP locally for 25 years and is Lead GP for Warrington Out of Hours Service. Mike is very interested in system redesign, patient pathways and making greater use of patient involvement in healthcare delivery.
• Dr Mohamed Dewji
  Dr Mohamed Dewji, a GP, was the PCG and then PEC Chair of Milton Keynes PCT prior to his appointment as Head of the National PMS Development Team. Now Clinical Director of Primary Care Contracting, he is actively involved in the development of new commissioning models and opportunities, helped to develop the Diabetes NSF and was a founder member of the National Resource Framework Group. His clinical interests lie in paediatrics; this is just as well as outside work, apart from golf and running, compulsory babysitting keeps him busy!
• Joe Dillon
  Joe Dillon is Deputy Director of Corporate Development and Governance for South West Essex PCT.  Joe is a member of the associate work group for Social Enterprise.
• Andrew Donald
  Andrew Donald is Director of Policy and Redesign at Birmingham East and North PCTs. He is interested in commissioning and service redesign, working with the independent sector and working to understand how healthcare internationally can be applied in the NHS.
• Keith Douglas
  Keith Douglas is Area Director of Commissioning for Hampshire PCT. Keith is a qualified radiographer with over 14 years clinical expereince, he has mad general management experience in secondary care (Medicine and Orthopaedics) as well as in primary care. He leads on commissioning in the West Hampshire area as well as having a county wide protfolio for Childrens commissioning and contract management generally.
• Erica Dyson
  Erica Dyson is  Director of Development & Redesign at Trafford Healthcare Trust . She is a delivery specialist, with expertise in infstrastructure, programme innovation and change management. Her areas of expertise are IT, estates, facilities, business analysis, service redesign, performance management and business transformation. 
• Dympna Edwards
  Dympna Edwards is Deputy Director of Public Health at Halton and St Helens PCT and St Helens Local Authority. She is interested in partnerships across a range of sectors to improve health and she contributes to the workgroup on joint working
• Graham English
  Graham works as an independent consultant and with the NHS Performance Support Team supporting recovery and development in ‘challenged’ Trusts in England (originally focussed on the ten most challenged acute trusts and now including PCTs).  Trained in delivery of MBTI, he focuses on coaching support to executives, senior clinicians and teams and on facilitating change, especially to achieve turnaround and sustainable re-development through people, their focus on performance and through leadership.  Graham led primary care organisations at Chief Executive level (1999-2005) and has experience of leadership positions in all sectors of the NHS.  Interests include Social Enterprise and Partnership development.
• Sue Ellis
  Sue is currently Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development for a shared service across 2 PCTs in West Yorkshire. Her most recent added skill is in executive coaching. She was formerly Partnership Director with the West Yorkshire Primary Care Organisations (WYPCO), where she led and sustained a collaborative of 15 PCTs in West Yorkshire through 4 years of significant development and change.  She has more than 14 years experience as an NHS director, having previously worked in roles in service redesign and capital planning, HR and in local authority housing.

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• Celia Gaze
  Celia Gaze is a Director responsible for one of the biggest NHS reconfigurations in the country involving four PCTs, four hospitals and four Local uthorities in the north east of Greater Manchester. She was Lead Director of a very political high profile and high risk consultation, ‘Healthy Futures’ which included the coordination of over 700 events, and direct engagement with over 100,000 people. To date, over 550 clinicians have been involved in leading the redesign of services across 42 clinical specialties, delivering a clinically led and patient influenced programme of work.
• Ranjit Gill
  A GP since 1990, and currently Chair of the Board, Stockport Managed Care Company (SMCC) since April 2007.As a past Chair of Stockport LMC, & the Greater Manchester LMCs Association, as well as PEC & PCG membership I have seen the difficulties in making change happen within the NHS. To effect real systematic change, working Clinicians in partnership with effective Managers must have direct control of service re-design & performance. Since April 2007, SMCC, an independent company wholly owned by all 57 Stockport GP practices, manages by contractual agreement, 92% of Stockport PCT's £383m budget, devolved to its PBC member practices. SMCC will build on the active participation in PBC by all Stockport practices since 2005, to produce a step change in NHS services for Stockport residents.
• William Greenwood
  William Greenwood is Associate Director of Programme Reform for NHS North West.William was previously Head of Primary Care for Greater Manchester SHA and has extensive Board level and operational experience in primary care, including advisory work with the Dept. of Health on aspects of the new contratc and recently completed a secondment to assist a PCT develop it’s primary care market strategy.  He has significant senior management experience in strategic planning, finance and organisational development. In recent posts William has been Executive Director of Service Development and Chief Executive of a shared services agency.He is qualified with the Institute of Healthcare Management and has a special interest in social enterprise, PCT provider arm development and market development.He describes his current role as “being the glue between key reform programmes”.
• Nick Hall
• Bec Hanley
  Bec Hanley is co-director of TwoCan Associates.  She became an Associate because of her work with the Engaging Communities Learning Network, a forerunner to NHS Networks.  She has 15 years experience of working to promote the active involvement of service users and carers in the NHS.
• Linda Henry
  Linda Henry is the Director of Unique Improvements, an organisation specialising in community engagement, service quality improvement and developing techniques that promote partnerships between citizens and service providers across all sectors. Linda is best known as the Director responsible for developing the successful Healthy Communities Collaborative within the NHS.
• Ann Hepworth
  Ann’s career has moved from general human resources specialist through training and development to organisational development.  She has worked across a range of NHS organisations including acute, primary, health authority, regional office and Modernisation Agency.  For the last 6 years Ann has worked with Primary Care organisations developing systems and processes to enable those organisations to deliver key objectives.  In her last role in the NHS she supported the implementation of practice based commissioning across 8 PCTs.

  Ann left the NHS in November 2006 and has worked on a freelance basis since on a range of projects including project work with the Department of Health implementing policies to develop commissioning capabilities, enabling Trusts to prepare for FT status and supporting the development of clinical networks. She is also an Associate of NHS Networks and in the past has lead the organisational design workstream for them.  Ann lives in London with her family and makes the most of all the opportunities for leisure the capital can offer. 

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• Ian Johnson
  Ian Johnson is the Diagnostics and Pathology Modernisation Lead at SW London SHA. A chartered scientist and chartered biologist, he has a clinico-scientific background in haematology, with experience in operational and PFI project management in the NHS. Ian has a particular interest in joint working in NHS Networks and in improving access to diagnostics in the NHS.
• David King
  David King is Chief Executive of North Manchester PCT. A qualified Chartered Accountant, he leads on Joint Mental Health Commissioning with Manchester City Council and also leads across Greater Manchester on Sexual Health, Mental Health, Continuing Care and Long-Term Conditions. David is a keen member of our associate work group for Joint Working.
• Eugene Lavan
  Eugene Lavan is responsible for planned care across St Helens and Halton PCTs. He has experience in all aspects of commissioning including urgent care, contacting (from Foundation Trusts) and mental health and learning disabilities. Eugene is the lead for the Commissioning work group.
• Tom Leach
  Tom Leach is Project Director for the Teaching PCT for NW London, hosted in Brent. His background is in educational research, teaching and organisational development. Tom is interested in shaping health and social care services around self care and is working on a variety of role redesign and recruitment projects in primary health care.
• Michael Loughlin
• Cath Lovatt
  Cath Lovatt is Director of Communications and Marketing at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. A chartered marketer with a lifetime interest in healthcare communications in NHS and commercial environments, she is also the NHS Networks contact for a learning set of NHS acute trust directors with organisational responsibility for marketing. She was previously communications director at the NHS Heart Improvement Programme, responsible for the development of cardiac networks in England.

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• Kevin Mullins
  Kevin Mullins is the North East London SHA's Programme Director for Long Term Conditions and also support Practice Based Commissioning for the SHA. He has over 20 years of experience in specialist and general acute hospitals, community health services and mental health and has worked extensively as a health and social commissioner.
• Sylvia Onyekwelu
  Sylvia Onyekwelu has a background in critical care nursing and a strong interest in people development and education. She currently works in South West London as a Healthcare Strategy Consultant, with py projects are around Healthcare systems and processes with people. Sylvia is a member of the Joint Working Group of NHS Networks Associates.

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• Anne Rothery
  Anne Rothery is Medical Director of Tameside and Glossop PCT. She has worked as a GP in Oldham and worked with the appeals service on both incapacity and disability appeals tribunals. Anne is interested in performance assessment of direct contractors and has some experience of the performers list regulationss/issues.

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• Norma Sadler
• Mandy Skelding-Jones
  Mandy Skelding-Jones is the Programme Lead for Primary Care at Warrington PCT. I have worked in the NHS for 18 years in a variety of organisations, and am interested in contestability in healthcare commissioning, especially in relation to primary care services. I am a member of the Associate work group for Corporate Planning and contribute to the strategic planning of the work and development of NHS Networks.
• Pam Spreckley
  Pam Spreckley has over 15 years’ experience of working within organisational development and education/training, having held senior management positions in the NHS, local government and the private sector. She spent three years in a senior operational management role within a combined NHS Trust and has particular interest in the people aspect of change management and cultural transformation. Pam is a key member of our Associate work group for Joint Working and contributes to the strategic planning of this work

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• Ged Taylor
  Ged has worked as an Associate with NHS Networks for almost two years.He was until recently a PCT Chief Executive for a period of four and a half years and prior to that was an Executive Director for Social Care, Housing & Health in a local authority. Ged is an Associate Member of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) and a member of the ADASS Older People Committee.   He is also a member of a number of Department of Health Programme Boards and Steering Groups.Ged has now established his own company providing management consultancy services to the NHS and local government, with a particular focus on the interface between health and social care.
• Lynnette Throp
  Lynnette Throp is currently working as Transition Project Director in Wakefield seconded from a substantive position as Chief Executive of Bradford City Teaching PCT. She had extensive acute, community and mental health experience, prior to the last seven years in Primary Care. Lynnette is chair of West Yorkshire Primary Care Organisations (a Chief Executive network) and also chairs the West Yorkshire Cardiac Network.
• Alison Tonge
  Alison Tonge is Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance at Stockport PCT, working on Financial Strategy Commissioning, PBC and Estates. She specialises in incentives, productivity, efficiency and systems to optimise impact from resources as well as driving investment and reform through business cases. Alison is Chair of the Commissioning from Foundation Trusts network and is interested in social enterprise.
• Dr Neil Turton
  Dr Neil Turton is an Executive Director of the Big Life group, a group a social businesses and chairties working together to provide opportunities for people to change their lives. Previously, he has worked in the commercial sector, voluntary sector, the NHS, and has a PhD in social policy. Neil has special interest in social enterprise, mental health, employment, regeneration and primary care.

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• Graham Waterhouse
  Graham Waterhouse is a management consultant and trainer specialising in the provision of high quality business development, performance measurement and mentoring for clients in the social enterprise sector. He has 20 years’ experience in Health Service management and is particularly skilled in strategic change, feasibility studies, facilitative working and diversification of funding sources.
• Rob Whieldon
  Rob Whieldon is Business Manager and Programme Associate at the Centre for the Development of Healthcare Policy & Practice (CDHPP) at the University of Leeds.  Working with his colleagues at CDHPP he has a particular interest in supporting the development of social enterprises and is a member of the Social Enterprise Network. He can be contacted through the CDHPP website at http://www.cdhpp.leeds.ac.uk.
• Samantha Williamson
  Sam Williamson is currently on a fixed-term secondment as Urgent Care Lead with Local Care Direct, a Social Enterprise organization currently providing primary urgent (out of hours) services across West Yorkshire and some parts of South Yorkshire.  Sam’s role will be to work with her previous commissioning colleagues in West Yorkshire in the redesign of a fully integrated patient pathway for urgent care, which is fully inclusive of all partner providers (i.e. the ambulance service, NHS Direct, and primary care providers).  Sam continues her interests in ICT, working closely with Connecting for Health (NPfIT) in the development of new and existing systems to support urgent care strategy, and also in patient pathway redesign and improving access. Sam sits on a number of subgroups of the DH Urgent Care Programme Board.
• Maggie Winchcombe
  Maggie Winchcombe trained as an occupational therapist and now runs her own consultancy business, working for Government departments, industry and voluntary organisations. She is currently involved in establishing regional networks for service users and carers who use Assistive Technology (Making the Links Project for Assist UK) and also advises a DH research initiative to support the NSF for Long Term Neurological Conditions (to disseminate research messages to practitioners).
• Lynne Winstanley
  Lynne Winstanley currently works as the lead at the NHS Institute for the  Field team, a new National team, the work involves promoting the work of the Institute with Chief Executive and Executive Directors in both NHS/ Foundation Trusts and PCTs.
  
  A nurse by profession Lynne was a nurse specialist in Care of the Elderly, Cancer, Palliative care and Tissue Viability, before moving into General management. She worked as the Quality manager at Nottingham Health Authority before starting a 10 year career in Commissioning where she directed the Mental Health and vulnerable care group Commissioning agenda for Greater Nottingham. In 2001 she became the Director of service development and modernization for a local PCT, and in 2003 SHE BECAME Chief Executive of Gedling PCT. With a passion and belief for getting is right first time for patients she led the PCT to 3 STAR status and developed a culture of continual improvement and pride in patient care. The PCT was one of a few across the SHA to dramatically reduce its emergency admission rates this was achieved by a whole sale change process involving workforce and pathway redesign.
  
  Lynne’s current role involves obtaining vital intelligence from the NHS on the Institutes products and methodologies, she has a real interest in the culture of orgiansations and the patients experience being used to review services.
• Tim Woodman

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