Our board

In order to be effective as a membership organisation, we need to be excellent at identifying our members’ needs and meeting them. We must also be fully accountable to our members in all that we do.

The way that we are governed reflects this commitment - our board below is made up of elected chairs and chief executives, representative of our member organisations. 

 

Acute trust chairs and chief executives

Chris Lawrence, chair, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, East of England (June 2026)

Dame Linda Pollard, chair, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, North East and Yorkshire (June 2025)

Deborah Lee, chief executive, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, South West (June 2024)

Fiona Noden, chief executive, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, North West (June 2024)

Ian Abbs, chief executive, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London (June 2024)

Jan Ross, chief executive, The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, North West (June 2025)

Kathy McLean, chair, University Hospitals Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, Midlands (June 2024)

Nick Carver, chair, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Midlands (June 2026)

Nick Hulme, chief executive, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, East of England (June 2024)

Steve Erskine, chair, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, South East (June 2025)

 

Mental health trust chairs and chief executives

Karen Taylor, chief executive, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, East of England (June 2026)

Peter Molyneux, chair, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, South East (June 2026)

Roisin Fallon-Williams, chief executive, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Midlands (June 2024)

Selina Ullah, chair, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, East Midlands (June 2025)

Sharon Mays, chair, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust, South Yorkshire (June 2026)

Therese Patten, chief executive, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, North East and Yorkshire (June 2024)

 

Ambulance trust chairs and chief executives

David Astley, chair, South East Coast Ambulance Service, South East (June 2025)

Richard Henderson, chief executive, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Midlands (June 2026)

 

Community trust chairs and chief executives

Elliot Howard-Jones, chief executive, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, East of England (June 2026)

Mary Elford, chair, Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, East of England (June 2024)

 

Our representatives

  • Sir Ron Kerr, chair
  • Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive
  • Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive
  • Tom Stanford, interim director of finance and IT
  • Adam Brimelow, director of communications
  • Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy
  • Jenny Reindorp, interim director of funded programmes