Mr Frank Collins

Chairman

Appointed in February 2015.

Frank has extensive experience in healthcare leadership. He spent his early career in the NHS culminating in Chief Executive posts at Kettering General Hospital and Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Trust.  Following this Frank moved into the private sector with Chief Executive posts at a private hospital; Hydron Ltd, (a manufacturer and supplier of contact lenses) and The Summit Medical Group (an international medical devices company), where he subsequently became Chairman.  

Frank currently serves as non-executive director/chairman to a range of healthcare related companies. He is also a trustee of a local charity.

Declaration of interest:

• Non- Executive Chairman and shareholder in Frontier Medical Group Limited (Companies House No. 08670394).
• Non- Executive Chairman of Bracebridge Corporate Finance Limited (Companies House No. 08875676).
• Non-Executive Chairman of JRI Orthopaedics Ltd,
• Member of the Advisory Board to Mercia Technologies

Mr Mark Brandreth

Chief Executive

Mark has been the Chief Executive at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since April 2016.

He joined from the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust where he was Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Operations and Planning. He has worked in a number of senior NHS management posts over the last 20 years. Mark has also worked in Wales and was invited to work for a period in a national role at the Department of Health. Mark has a particular interest in improving services for patients and improving organisational culture and change

Declaration of interest:

Partner, Trustee of Lancashire and South Cumbria Neurological Alliance (Charity)

Mr Alastair Findlay

Non-Executive Director

Chair of the Business Risk and Investment Committee.

Alastair has significant experience of working at board level in both the public and private sector, with direct experience of NHS board work, having been on the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Board for eight years, until March 2013. A chartered accountant, his early career was in the investment banking sector and his final full time role was Finance Director for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company. He was on the board of the Skipton Building Society for five years, latterly as Chairman and is also a non executive director at the Trafford Housing Trust.
 

Declaration of interest:

• Non Executive Director of Trafford Housing Trust Ltd

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Mr David Gilburt

Non-Executive Director

Chair of the Audit Committee.  Member of the Business Risk and Investment Committee.

David is a qualified accountant and has worked as Director of Finance in roles across the NHS at Health Authority, Trust and Regional level.  More recently he has worked as an independent consultant specialising in financial turnaround for NHS organisations in financial difficulty.  In this capacity he worked at RJAH from June 2007 to July 2008 as interim Director of Finance & Turnaround.

Declaration of interest:

NHS England providing advice on the evaluation of North West Clinical Commissioning Group financial recovery plans to end of December 2016

Interim Chief Finance Officer at South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group - ended June 2016

Mrs Hilary Pepler

Non-Executive Director

Chair of the Quality and Safety Committee.  Member of the Audit and Business Risk and Investment Committees.

Non-Executive Safeguarding lead.

Hilary brings a wealth of clinical, managerial and executive experience.  She started her NHS career as a nurse, working primarily within Community Health Services; she then moved into managerial roles, working as the Director of Human Resources at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.  In 1993 she became a Trust Chief Executive, working in Chester, Liverpool and the North East Wales Trust.  Following her retirement in 2007 Hilary has worked as a volunteer with the National Trust.
 

Declaration of interest:

• Volunteer – National Trust

Mr Christopher Beacock

Non Executive Director

Mr Christopher Beacock lives in Shropshire and is a Foundation Trust member and takes a keen interest in the hospital. 

He has 27 years clinical experience as a Consultant Urological Surgeon at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.  He formally retired in 2014 and has been re-employed on a part time contract since then.

He has worked across a wide range of acute trusts, integrated care organisations and community service providers.  He has had a long standing interest in medical management and held various posts up to and including that of Deputy Medical Director.  He has also served as Chairman of the Clinical Governance and Clinical Audit Committees and has sat on Quality and Safety Committees.

Mr Harry Turner

Non Executive Director

Harry  has extensive relevant experience, having served as a Non-Executive Director then Chairman of Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust between 2008 and 2016. He also took up the position of Chairman of the John Taylor Hospice in Birmingham October 2016 and is also a Non-Executive Director on Dudley and Walsall mental health NHS Trust

Mr Turner, has also been a Justice of the Peace in Worcestershire Courts for more than a decade, he previously worked as an Operations Director in the hotel industry, working for businesses including Travel Inn and Marriott International.

Declaration of interest:

Chairman John Taylor Hospice CIC Birmingham 

Trustee Worcestershire Breast unit Haven Charity 

Steering Group Member NHS research project PEARL. 

Owner F.T.K Associates 

Owner Vacation rentals Lda Portugal 

Magistrate West Mercia benches HMCTS. 

Non Executive Director Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Trust

Mr Steve White

Medical Director

Steve has been Medical Director since 2012.

After graduating from the University at Nottingham, Steve trained at Bristol and Oxford. He has been a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon since 1993 specialising in knee surgery. In research, he has published widely on anteromedial osteoarthritis and its treatment by partial knee replacement.  He has held a variety of leadership roles over the years for example in teaching and training, leading the Trauma service, the Knee and Sports injury Firm and a period as Director of Surgery.

Steve encourages doctors, many of whom have the classic attributes of “memory, logic and imagination” to lead, but emphasizes that everyone in management needs to recognise the five common heuristics and biases that so easily impact on decision making. With greater insight, and a shared purpose, clinical and non-clinical managers can work harmoniously to continuously improve patient care.

Declaration of interest:

Private practice carried out though a limited company: Steve White Knee Clinic Ltd. His wife is an employee and director. He is an advisor on health care improvements including  “Futurefit”, The Sustainability and Transformational Partnership (STP) for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and the National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA).

Mrs Bev Tabernacle

Director of Nursing

Bev has been Acting Director of Nursing and Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust in recent months. She has previously worked at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Declarations of Interest:

None

Mr Craig Macbeth

Director of Finance

Craig joined the Trust in 2008 as Deputy Director of Finance having previously worked at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals.  He was instrumental in supporting the Trusts’ sustainable services programme taking the lead on the contracting and commissioning elements.  He subsequently led the finance team through the Foundation Trust application process and has more recently been leading the business planning for the Trust.  He became Acting Director of Finance in October 2015. He was later named Associate Director of Finance, before becoming Director of Finance on 1 April 2017.

Declaration of interest:

None recorded

Mrs Nia Jones

Director of Operations

Nia joined the Trust in January 2016 as Deputy Director of Operations, having previously worked at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. Nia has worked as Performance Manager for North Wales Regional Office, working with Policy Divisions, Trusts and commissioners to provide a Performance Framework for North Wales NHS organisations and implementation of referral to treatment in Wales.

She has also worked as Service Manager for Orthopaedics at North East Wales Trust before becoming Lead Manager for Operational Improvement for Surgery and Anaesthetics, working across the three District General Hospitals in North Wales.

Nia became Director of Operations in August 2017.

Mrs Kerry Robinson

Director of Strategy and Planning

Kerry Robinson has been Director of Strategy and Planning at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust since July 2016.  Kerry joined from the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where she was Assistant Director of Planning. She began her NHS career in 2008 at the Countess of Chester Hospital, having trained as an accountant.  Kerry has an MBA, BSc (Hons) and is a chartered management accountant.

Prior to joining the NHS, Kerry has worked in logistics, food manufacturing, telecommunications and oil research, commencing employment in project management, moving to finance, to then move into strategy and planning. 

Kerry has a passionate belief in caring for staff to deliver patient focused service design through successful partnership working and clinical engagement at all levels.  She has extensive experience in collaborative working and partnership agreements.