Integrated Care System (ICS) Board

David is currently the Independent Non-Executive Chair of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Health and Care System.

He is also the Chair of the Board of TEC Quality a Community Interest Company whose role is to promote standards of quality and cost effectiveness of technology in health and social care across the UK. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) School for Social Care Research.

David has wide experience of leadership at a local, national and regional level in care and health and wider public services. He has led a number of major change programmes, including his leadership of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System.

In June 2016 David’s contribution to adult social care was recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, when he was awarded a CBE. In November 2016 David received an award for outstanding contribution to adult social care at the Great East Midlands Care Awards. At the end of 2018 he was identified by the Health Service Journal as one of the top 100 most influential people in health in the country.

John Brewin took up post as Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire Healthcare on 2 January 2019.

John, a consultant psychiatrist for 23 years, was CEO at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (LPFT), where he has been in that role for four years and was their Medical Director for three years prior to this. John previously worked for Nottinghamshire Healthcare in a variety of senior clinical roles between1995-2011 and he also trained in Nottingham. John has an extensive career history of leadership and managerial roles, with experience as an associate medical director and clinical director before he joined LPFT.

John’s achievements during his time at LPFT include the Trust moving from ‘Requires Improvement’ in 2015 to ‘Good’ in 2017 in the CQC ratings. He also helped the Trust improve quality, deliver strong performance and meet financial targets year on year. Some of John’s other skills are around culture, leadership and staff engagement.

Dean became Chair of Nottinghamshire Healthcare in January 2011.

Alongside his duties in the NHS, Dean is also a Non-Executive Director with the Parliamentary and Health Services Ombudsman, a Board Member of the GLLEP and a Professor of Organisational Resilience at the University of Lincoln where he is Chair of the National Centre for Organisational Resilience.

Prior to becoming Chair of Nottinghamshire Healthcare, Dean chaired NHS Bassetlaw, was a Non-Executive Director of the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority and also chaired Doncaster Health Authority. Dean has additionally been Chair of United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Dean has a strong interest in leadership, executive development and governance. He has held roles on the NHS’s National Training Group, chaired the East Midlands SHA’s Learning and Development Board, was a Founder and Board Member of the East Midlands Leadership Academy, held roles on two Workforce Development Boards and is on the Midlands Regional Talent Board.

Dean currently sits on the NHS’s Workforce Race Equality Standards (WRES) Advisory Group, the NHS’s Culture Advisory Group, has been involved with both the Accelerated Access Review and the National Strategy for Improvement and Leadership Development Advisory Group (Smith Review) and is a member of NHS Improvement’s Chairs’ Advisory Partnership Board, on the Board of NHS Providers and was formerly Vice Chair of the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network.

Richard joined the Ambulance Service in 1996.

He is a qualified paramedic and has extensive experience having held clinical and operational senior managerial roles including as a divisional director for our Lincolnshire Division, and Director of Operations for EMAS.

In March 2016 Richard became the EMAS Acting Chief Executive and the Chief Executive in October 2017.

John MacDonald is a former NHS Chief Executive of three major teaching hospitals.

He has worked in previous NHS roles within Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. He is currently the Chair of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a role he has held since February 2017.

Prior to working within the NHS, John worked with Touche Ross Management Consultants in the UK and has ten years’ experience of working as an economist with international aid agencies in Africa and the Middle East. More recently, he has supported numerous NHS boards to create highly effective top teams as well as to develop successful Trust strategies.

Richard was appointed as Chief Executive at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in July 2017.

He joined Sherwood from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust where he worked as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer for four years and he previously worked at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT.

Richard believes all patients should receive the level of care we would want our friends and families to receive. He views teamwork, lots of encouragement, support and kindness as essential to the delivery of high quality, safe patient care.

Eric joined Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust as Chairman on 1 May 2017.

An Accountant by background, Eric’s career began in local authority settings before he joined the NHS in 1987 as Senior Assistant Regional Treasurer at Trent Regional Health Authority.

Two years later he moved to a provider setting and his first director level post at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield where he was Director of Finance and part of the executive team taking the hospital through to trust status.

In 1990 he returned to a health authority (HA), this time North Derbyshire HA which was severely challenged and facing a significant financial deficit. He led the financial turnaround and restored financial balance before moving to Chesterfield Royal Hospital in early 1993 to take up the post of Director of Finance and Corporate Services and Deputy Chief Executive. Eric held this post for eight years.

He was appointed Chief Executive in 2002, a position he then held for 10 years. As Chief Executive he successfully took the Trust to foundation trust (FT) status in 2005, led a substantial change management programme that included reforming the cost base and consistently delivered on national performance targets.

During his time at Chesterfield, Eric undertook a number of Chief Executive secondment roles to assist challenged providers including United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Mid Staffordshire Hospitals NHSFT.

Since stepping down from Chesterfield Royal in 2012 Eric has spent periods as Interim Chief Executive at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHSFT and Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS FT whilst substantive appointments were made. He then became an Improvement Director for Monitor in 2013 which has seen him provide support and act as a regulator presence in challenged foundation trusts that have been placed in special measures.

He spent periods of time working with Burton Hospitals NHS FT, Tameside Hospitals NHS FT, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS FT and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS FT. He also spent four months as an Advisor to the board of East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Amanda is the Accountable Officer for the six CCGs in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System.

She took on the role in November 2018 after serving as Chief Officer for both the Mansfield and Ashfield, and Newark and Sherwood CCGs for more than six years.

She also served as Joint SRO of the Mid-Nottinghamshire Better Together programme between 2014 and 2018. This was a Vanguard Primary and Acute Care System (PACS) site, with an Alliance across health and local government.

Amanda has a clinical background, working as a nurse and a midwife before moving into senior management. In 2001 Amanda was awarded a PhD for research investigating decision-making during pregnancy.

In her capacity as a consultant midwife, Amanda worked at regional and national levels. She chaired a working group on behalf of the National Screening Committee, which developed national standards for ultrasound consent in pregnancy. She has also edited midwifery text books.

Tracy joined Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) as Chief Executive on 30 October 2017.

She trained as a nurse in Birmingham and held a number of community nursing posts around the city before progressing into managerial roles within the NHS and is a registered general nurse, health visitor and school nurse.

Having begun her career as a nurse, Tracy values the importance of maintaining her clinical focus as a leader by protecting time in her diary each week to visit staff and gain an insight into the issues from a frontline perspective.

Before joining NUH, Tracy held Chief Executive roles at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Prior to this she was Director of Performance and Organisational Development at Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust and Project Director for Urgent Care.

Five times named among Health Service Journal’s (HSJ) ‘Top Chief Executives’ (including in 2018), Tracy is renowned as a passionate, effective advocate for the health interests of patients and communities, locally and nationally, in helping achieve better care and outcomes, and for the future objectives of the NHS.

Jon Towler is an experienced Chairman and Non Executive Director in both the private and public sectors.

Jon graduated in 1991 from Reims Business School with a double degree in International Business Administration and then spent the early part of his career in international sales management. He moved into general management roles in the late 1990s, spending 8 years as a Director of the UK’s leading wholesaler of office products.

Jon has been involved with the NHS for more than ten years, chairing both NHS Nottinghamshire County and the East Midlands Ambulance Service. Since 2015, Jon has been working in a Non Executive capacity for multiple Clinical Commissioning Groups and, from 1st May 2019, has taken up the role of Lay Chair of the Governing Body for all six of the CCGs in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Jon currently serves as Vice Chair of the ICS Board.

Outside of work, Jon is married with two sons and lives in north Nottinghamshire.

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Alex is the Director of Communications and Engagement for the ICS and the CCGs.

This means his role is to promote and explain the work of the Integrated Care System and the CCGs and also listen to the various audiences with an interest in the system: patients, the general public, staff, the voluntary and community sector and our elected politicians.

Alex has worked in the NHS since 2016, firstly in the national NHS England Communications team as Head of Strategic Communications and in the Nottinghamshire system in this role since 2018.

Prior to joining the NHS he worked for twelve years for Boots UK Limited in a variety of roles in the marketing, commercial and pharmacy departments with his final role being Head of External Healthcare Partnerships.

Alongside these paid roles, Alex also served as a Councillor on Nottingham City Council for six years from 2011 and took a particular interest in housing matters.

Alex has an MBA in Strategic Management from Aston University.

Andy qualified in 1984 from Caius College, Cambridge and Kings College, London.

He trained as a Clinical Haematologist in Nottingham and Edinburgh before becoming a Leukaemia Research Fund Senior Lecturer in 1996 in Nottingham. His main interest was in the diagnosis and management, including bone marrow transplantation, of lymphoma developing a large tertiary practice and international reputation.

The team developed to include the first lymphoma specialist lymphoma nurse in the country and dedicated psychology support. He established a Haematology Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory to support the Haematological Malignancies and Transplantation Programme in Nottingham.

A research interest in mechanisms of drug resistance in lymphoma and a post doc team resulted in over 80 publications and several book chapters including the rewritten blood diseases chapter in Davidson’s and the lymphoma chapter in the ABC of Haematology. Many students and trainees have enjoyed his enthusiastic and insightful teaching.

After a 7 year term as Cancer Lead during which Nottingham developed a PET centre, video teleconferencing and a Maggie’s Centre he branched out into service improvement supporting several large scale change projects within the newly formed Nottingham University Hospitals Trust serving on the Directors Group.

He became interim Medical Director at Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust in October 2013 and was appointed substantively in February 2014. The trust was removed from Special Measures in October 2016 and in the intervening years the work Andy has driven has seen the HSMR fall from the worst in the country to the best third, 4hr ED target performance in the top 20 nationally for over a year, sepsis outcomes amongst the best nationally and C diff cases more than halved in 2 years. The appraisal, revalidation and job planning systems at the trust have been nationally recognised.

He had a key role in the planning for partnership with Nottingham, chairs the STP Clinical Reference Group and sits on the STP Executive Board.

Gavin is a partner in Brierley Park Medical Centre.

He moved to the East Midlands in the 1990s and trained in medicine at Derby in 2003, completing Foundation training at Boston and Derby before starting GP training at Mansfield in 2009.

Gavin has worked in both secondary and primary care, previously working in ENT, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Emergency Department and Psychiatry. Gavin has worked with the CCG since 2013, contributing to the development and implementation of key strategies and quality improvements, including work on Better Together and the Primary Care Strategy.

With a professional scientific and medical background, Gavin is a strong advocate for harnessing innovation to transform and deliver quality services for patients in Mansfield and Ashfield.

Elaine is a registered nurse who has previously worked in acute trusts undertaking a wide range of nursing and clinical quality posts.

Along with experience in delivering direct care to patients, Elaine has 12 years’ experience in commissioning which has involved developing assurance methods for assessing and improving commissioned services in acute, mental health, primary care and continuing healthcare services.

Elaine has a Master degree in Quality in Healthcare and has previously held a Visiting Fellowship at Nottingham Trent University. Elaine is committed to ensuring patient experience and safety remains at the heart of strategic decision making.

Helen qualified as an accountant in 1994 and has over 25 years' experience working in the health sector.

She has held executive level roles in finance, contracting, performance, planning and turnaround and has worked in the commissioning sector, provider sector and at NHS England.

Helen is the ICS Finance Director and chairs the ICS Finance Directors Group and the ICS Planning Group. Helen is committed to ensuring that delivering the best value for our population remains at the heart of planning and decision making.

Richard Stratton is a GP with a background in pharmacy and general management, and he is known for his patient focused approach.

Richard represents South Nottinghamshire GPs and PCNs on the ICS Board, via the GP Network, Nottinghamshire.

His career in medicine and pharmacy leadership has developed his leadership skills in change management, organisation design/development and delivering strategic programmes.

Melanie joined Nottinghamshire County Council in January 2019.

Melanie leads Adult Social Care and Health, delivering health and care to Adults, their carers and families, including the most vulnerable residents in Nottinghamshire. Working in partnership with providers, voluntary sector organisation and health services is a key part of Melanie’s role with a focus on commissioning a sustainable social care market as well as directly providing social care support. Melanie places importance on championing the voice of people needing social care by engagement with them, shaping, influencing and implementing policy and Council services.

Eunice has lived in Nottingham since 1968 and attended Margaret Glenbott School.

She went on to study The Institute of Management at Clarendon College (IAM) and further studied with the East Midlands Open University to gain BSc in Social Sciences. She studied with University of Warwick on their Leadership Development Programme and has a professional background in Training and Development/Coaching. She has held three Executive positions within the Council in Adults and Health, HR and Customer Services.

Eunice has been elected to Nottingham City since February 1996 and currently represents the Bulwell Forest ward. She has held several other positions, chair of Area One Committee, the Older Persons Champion, Chair of Loneliness and Isolation and Age Friendly Steering Panels. Outside bodies Vice Chair of Westglade Primary School, and Chair of Finance: Member of Friends and Bredin (FAB) Prostate Cancer Support Group.

Ian has lived, studied and worked in Nottingham for over 30 years.

His background is in education, having trained as teacher at Nottingham Trent University and spent 12 years as a Teacher and Head Teacher in the city’s primary schools. Ian became the youngest Head Teacher England in 1991.

He joined Nottingham City Council in 1999 where he held a number of key positions, including Corporate Director for Children’s & Adults, before becoming Chief Executive in January 2013. Under his leadership, not only are the citizens of Nottingham at the heart of everything Nottingham City Council does, but his drive and ambition has seen the city continuing to grow. It has been acknowledged that the City has the fastest growing economy in the East Midlands, the fastest growing economy outside of the South East and is ranked as one of the top ten places to bring up a family in the country.

Councillor Tony Harper was elected as the Nottinghamshire County Councillor for Eastwood Division in May 2017, the first Conservative ever to win that particular council seat.

He was immediately appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Adult Social Care & Public Health Committee, and in May 2019 was promoted to become Chairman of that committee. He also serves on the Policy and Planning & Licensing Committees of the County Council.

Tony was previously the Councillor Eastwood Hall ward on Broxtowe Borough Council, where he served as the portfolio holder for Jobs & Economy. Before entering politics, Tony was a senior police officer, having served in the force for 36 years, building experience in virtually every aspect of police work including CID, highways patrol and community and neighbourhood policing.

Steve Vickers was elected as the Nottinghamshire County Councillor for Retford East Division in May 2017.

He was immediately appointed as a Vice Chairman of the Adult Social Care & Public Health Committee.  In May 2019 he stepped down from this role in order to accept the position of Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Health & Wellbeing Board, though he continues to be a member of the Adult Social Care & Public Health Committee and also serves on the Health Scrutiny Committee.

Steve was born in Tuxford but brought up and educated in Retford, the town he represents. He worked in the National Health Service for 14 years helping to improve services in many different departments, and he uses this extensive experience to champion the needs of health and social care service users.

Thilan Bartholomeuz is the Clinical Chair of NHS Newark & Sherwood CCG and a GP Partner at Abbey Medical Group in Blidworth & Ravenshead.

He completed his GP Training in Nottingham.

Thilan has a keen interest in developing cancer services. He chairs the ICS Cancer Programme Board and is the Mid Nottinghamshire CCGs’ Clinical Lead for Cancer and a Macmillan GP. He is a GP Trainer for the Sherwood Forest GP Speciality Training Programme and a Fellow of Royal College of General Practitioners.