| Introducing the Executive and Non-Executive Team |
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Non-Executive Directors
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Aileen McLeish,
Chairman
Aileen McLeish has been Chairman of Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust since October 2008 having been a Non-Executive of the Trust since November 2005. She was educated at The Mount School York and Girton College Cambridge where she obtained a degree in Mechanical Sciences. On leaving university, Aileen joined Unilever as a graduate management trainee and subsequently worked for H J Heinz in the UK where she became Group Financial Controller. She then transferred to the not for profit sector as Director of Finance at Historic Royal Palaces for 6 years followed by a move to WWF-UK as Director of Resources for 4 years. At Historic Royal Palaces she led on the transformation of the organisation from a Government Agency to a Non-Departmental Public Body and registered charity with no public funding (an early precursor of the process of becoming a Foundation Trust).
Aileen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Institute of Directors, as well as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. She is married with a 21 year old son and 19 year old daughter and has lived in Teddington and Hampton for over 20 years.
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Mr Nadeem Aziz
Non-Executive Director
Nadeem Aziz is currently Director for Group Financial Planning at Actavis, a leading generic pharmaceutical drugs manufacturer and distributor; which in a few years has grown to a global £2 billion turnover and employing 11,000 people. He has worked as financial director in a range of industries having held senior positions at EA Games, American Express, Seagrams, Emirate Airlines, and Sony. He started his career at BBC Television.
Nadeem has an MBA (Sheffield Business School), is a Chartered Management Accountant, and has a Diploma in Marketing (Chartered Institute of Marketing). Nadeem lives in Hounslow. In his spare time he is an avid cricket and football fan.
Nadeem is the chair of the Finance Committee at Ashford and St Peter’s. He was appointed as a NED in June 2010.
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Professor Philip Beesley,
Non-Executive Director
Professor Philip Beesley is Dean of Science and Professor of Molecular Neuroscience at Royal Holloway, University of London in Egham. By training, Philip is a biological scientist specialising in neuroscience and has been closely involved in the development of biomedical science at Royal Holloway and in the development of collaborative work with St. George’s University of London (from where the Trust receives a number of medical students) and Kingston University. In his role as Dean of Science Philip is responsible for managing the seven Science Departments at Royal Holloway and is a member of the College’s Senior Management Team. Phillip took up his appointment at the Trust in July 2008.
Philip chairs the Integrated Governance and Assurance Committee and the Clinical Excellence Awards Committee. Phillip is also a member of Foundation Trust Project Board.
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Sue Ells,
Non-Executive Director
Sue Ells has worked as a management consultant for more than 20 years. Her specialism is transformation, change management and organisation development (OD). These skills have been in constant use, achieving successful organisational change in both the public and private sectors. Aligning with business strategy, Sue has designed, managed and personally delivered a cross-section of change programmes in UK, Europe, US and Asian cultures. She has a track record in developing high performing teams, coaching senior individuals and running audits of why major programmes and organisational changes fail, so that lessons can be learnt and future success assured. Sue has a degree in psychology, an MBA, and is a member of the British Psychological Society’s Occupational and Coaching Divisions.
Sue is a member of the Remuneration Committee and is also a member of Foundation Trust Project Board. Sue was appointed as a Non Executive from February 2009.
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Mr Peter Taylor,
Non-Executive Director
Peter Taylor worked until recently with the South East England Development Agency, responsible for supporting small and medium size enterprises and promoting manufacturing and innovation. As an advisor to many industries he has an extensive knowledge of marketing, new product development and lean enterprise techniques. Peter has also held General Management and Marketing Director roles at companies such as Unipart , The Rank Organisation, Grand Metropolitan (now Diageo) and Cadbury Schweppes. He is a member of Runnymede Borough Council and sits on the Economic Development and Corporate Management Committees.
Peter started as a Non Executive in July 2008 and chairs the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Finance and Audit Committees at Ashford and St. Peter's.
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Mr Terry Price,
Non-Executive Director
Terry Price has wide ranging experience in both the public and voluntary sectors. He relinquished full time employment in early 2006 and now holds a number of non executive roles with the Children’s Commissioner for England, the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the National Fire Service College, the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education Ltd, and Community Building Services Ltd (a subsidiary of Affinity Sutton Housing).
Until 2006 Terry was Director of Strategic Finance for the Metropolitan Police and from 1998 until 2003 was Director of Corporate Services for Sport England. Prior to this, Mr Price held various posts in local authority finance in the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, and Hounslow. In the voluntary sector Terry is Chair of the Board of Governors at Esher Sixth Form College and Chair of the Governing Body at St. Lawrence C of E (Aided) Junior School in East Molesey. He is also Vice Chair of the Board at St. Mungo’s Housing Association and Treasurer of East Holmes Housing Association. Terry is a fully qualified CIPFA accountant.
Terry chairs the Audit Committee and is also a member of the Finance Committee and Integrated Governance and Assurance Committee. He was appointed as a Non Executive Director in September 2008.
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Executive Directors
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Andrew Liles,
Chief Executive
Andrew Liles joined the Trust in January 2009 from the Royal West Sussex NHS Trust, where he had been Chief Executive for three years. After University he was an NHS Management Trainee for 2 years, completing his training in 1992. Since then his career has progressed through general management and operational posts in Acute NHS Trusts and Executive Director posts in Winchester, Southampton and Epsom and St Helier. Andrew is the Chief Executive lead for leadership and talent management for the NHS in the South East.
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Dr Mike Baxter,
Medical Director
Dr Mike Baxter joined Ashford and St Peter’s in 1992 as a consultant diabetologist and endocrinologist and has since developed this service. He then became Clinical Director for seven years before becoming Medical Director in 2002. Mike was heavily involved with the merger of Ashford and St. Peter’s hospitals, the reconfiguration of clinical services across the two sites and the recent merger talks with Frimley. Mike has contributed greatly to the Trust’s rise from a zero star rating to 3 star status and the subsequent financial turnaround programme. Mike has played a large part in laying the groundwork for the Trust’s Foundation Trust Application and is now leading a programme on organisational transformation.
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Raj Bhamber,
Director of Workforce and Organisational Development
Raj Bhamber graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 1986 and was awarded an MSc in Human Resources Leadership in 2005. She has enjoyed a wide variety of roles in pharmacy, cable television, banking, the Manpower Services Commission and the Hotel and Catering Training Board. Raj has held a number of Board level workforce and organisational development appointments in both the NHS (acute, health authority and primary care) and Further Education as well as a secondment opportunity at the Department of Health. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; the Law and Business Faculties at Kingston University and is an Ambassador of the Public Appointments Network for the Government’s Equalities Office.
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John Headley,
Director of Finance and Information
John Headley has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Following several years in finance roles in the Life Insurance sector in the UK and in Spain, John worked for 13 years in Bupa, initially in its Spanish subsidiary Sanitas and subsequently as Finance Director of Bupa International where he was based in Brighton.
John is married with two children and joined Ashford & St Peter’s in January 2009.
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Valerie Howell,
Deputy Chief Executive
Valerie has nearly 15 years of Board level experience within the NHS, including 4 years as a Chief Executive of a mental health trust and 3 years as Director of Service Delivery at the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust. Graduating from Oxford, with an MBA from Henley Management College, Valerie also has experience of working outside the NHS, in both local government and the voluntary sector. She has also worked in consultancy and research, designing and delivering significant programmes of organizational change with government agencies, local authorities and with NHS Trusts across the UK.
Valerie has experience of project directing a Foundation Trust application where she developed a membership scheme, produced an Integrated Business Plan and also delivered a programme of Board development. Valerie’s experience within the acute sector of the NHS includes leading on significant service redesign programmes and delivering programmes of substantial financial recovery and significant performance improvement.
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Susan Osborne,
Interim Chief Nurse
Susan trained as a registered nurse at University College Hospital, London in 1972 and as a Midwife at Queen Charlottes Hospital for Women, London in 1976.
During her career she has worked in senior posts in nursing and general management. She specialised in intensive care nursing, medical nursing / general management and freelance consultancy. Her senior roles span being the Chief Executive at the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, London, achieving NHS Trust status, Director of Nursing at Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust and then at St. Mary’s Hospital NHS Trust which latterly merged with the Hammersmith Hospitals and Imperial College in 2007 to become the first Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC).
Susan was appointed as the Interim Director of Nursing during this merger period. Also during that time Susan was seconded one day a week as one of the National Clinical Leads for Nursing for Connecting for Health which led the National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). Following the creation of the AHSC, Susan was seconded to NHS East of England as the Chief Nurse and is currently working as a freelance nursing and management consultant. She was awarded a CBE in 2005 for her contribution to nursing.
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Board Members Expenses
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust has decided to proactively publish summary details of expenses claimed by Board members (i.e. the non executive directors and executive directors). The spreadsheet below shows the amount of expenses claimed for reimbursement by the named Board member, broken down by category, during the quarter shown.
- Download the expenses summary for Q2 2010-11
This approach is in accordance with guidance from the Information Commissioner and with the Nolan Principles.
Trust Board Minutes and Meetings
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