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Trust Board

The Trust Board consists of a team of full time executive directors who are responsible for the day to day management of the hospital, supported by a chairman and five non-executive directors who bring a valuable external dimension to the leadership and management of the hospital.

There are six board meetings held in public each year. In addition, the board holds regular internal seminars on strategic and operational issues.

The Trust is committed to being open and transparent in all of its work with the public, patients and staff, and takes all possible steps to communicate widely and effectively. It has good collaborative relationships with external stakeholders such as the Primary Care Trusts, Social Services, and the Overview and Scrutiny Committees of the boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond.

The chief executive and executive directors are employed under standard NHS contracts of employment. Rates of remuneration for executive directors are calculated in line with comparable position across the NHS hospitals.

The Trust Board has a number of sub-committees to oversee procedural and financial management of the hospital. These are:

Remuneration Committee – sets executive salary levels and monitors the NHS pay scheme
Audit Committee – reviews financial governance and control
Charitable Funds Committee – oversees the hospital’s charitable funds
Finance and Performance Committee – oversees progress with financial management and performance.
Integrated Governance Committee – monitors the clinical and non clinical governance arrangements.
Clinical Excellence Committee – assesses and evaluates clinical performance
Equalities Committee – oversees the delivery of the statutory duties in terms of staff and service delivery agendas.

Trust Chairman Tom Hayhoe

Chairman - Tom Hayhoe

Tom joined the Trust Board in 2010. He has served on NHS boards in West London since 1985, including as Deputy Chairman of Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority, Chairman of the West London Pathology Consortium, regional chairman of the Advisory Committee for Clinical Excellence Awards, and Chairman of Building Better Health West London, the public private partnership that developed the award winning Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health. He is a Fitness to Practice Panel Chair for the Nursing and Midwifery Council and a Trustee of Arthritis Research UK. He has spent most of his career in the private sector: as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, the Brackenbury Group and The Chambers; and in retailing with W H Smith and Gamestation. He is a former church warden and school governor and former Vice Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

Non-executive Director Stephen Clark

Non-executive - Director Stephen Clark

Stephen joined the Trust Board in April 2003. He has worked extensively in the public and voluntary sector. For eight years he was a councillor for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and he is currently a Trustee of Age Concern Hounslow and Chair of the North West London Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards. Stephen spent over 30 years in central government, predominantly in senior posts for the Ministry of Defence and the Cabinet Office. As Head of Infrastructure at the Cabinet Office he was responsible for managing major construction projects in Whitehall. At the Ministry of Defence he was involved in procurement of major defence systems, facilities management and construction projects, including PFI. He was awarded the OBE in 2002. He lives in Brentford.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

(Please note that all of the non-executive directors are part-time and do not have offices at the hospital)

Non-executive Director Mark Jopling

Non-executive Director - Mark Jopling

Mark Jopling joined the Trust Board in May 2011. He is a highly experienced commercial director, working in technology and consumer companies, in the UK and internationally. Mark is currently responsible for a large Business Unit in British Telecom, and has worked for Vodafone, Nokia and Mars in the past. He brings to the Trust 10 years of Operating Board experience across sales, marketing, technology and customer operations. Mark also serves on the Development Board of Warwick Business School. Mark has lived locally for over 20 years.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

(Please note that all of the non-executive directors are part-time and do not have offices at the hospital)

Non-executive Director Nick Gash

Non-executive Director - Nick Gash

Nick joined the Trust Board in November 2005. He is a public affairs and policy consultant working with a range of clients in private and voluntary sector. He has a background in management in the voluntary sector having been the Director of the National Union of Students until 2004. He lives in Brentford.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

(Please note that all of the non-executive directors are part-time and do not have offices at the hospital)

Non-executive Director Luke de Lord

Non-executive Director - Luke de Lord

Luke de Lord joined the Trust Board in November 2005. He is a highly experienced healthcare management consultant who has worked in the UK and abroad for 20 years. He provides advice to healthcare clients on a wide range of strategic and financial issues. Luke works for Finnamore Management Consultants. Prior to this, he was a Director with Grant Thornton UK LLP where he led the Project Finance Health Team, providing financial advice to Trusts and PCTs on NHS capital developments. He brings to the Trust in depth knowledge of NHS procurement as well as strong commercial, financial and analytical skills.
Luke is a local resident and has used the West Middlesex Hospital since early childhood.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

(Please note that all of the non-executive directors are part-time and do not have offices at the hospital)

Non-executive Director Jenny Higham

Non-executive Director - Professor Jenny Higham

Professor Jenny Higham joined the Trust Board in the Imperial College position in May 2009. She has just under 25 years clinical experience and is a Consultant Gynaecologist, currently serving as the Head of Undergraduate Medicine at the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.

A published author, Professor Higham is an expert in her field and has held many influential roles at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, including being on the Academic Committee as well as the Editor of the “MRCOG & Beyond” Book series. She is also a member of the Fellowship of the Royal College of Gynaecologist and the Fellowship of Faculty of Family Planning.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

(Please note that all of the non-executive directors are part-time and do not have offices at the hospital)

Chief Executive - Dame Jacqueline Docherty

Jacqueline joined the Trust Board in February 2009 from King’s College Hospital where she held the role of Deputy Chief Executive, Director of Operations & Nursing. After qualifying as a nurse Jacqueline held a variety of posts including Theatre Sister at the Royal Free Hospital and Senior Nurse for Acute Services at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, before being appointed Deputy Director of Nursing at West Lothian NHS Trust. In 1996, Jacqueline joined King’s College Hospital as Executive Director of Nursing, and in 2001 became their Director of Operations. In 2007 she was appointed Deputy Chief Executive. Jacqueline was Acting Chief Executive at King’s from May to November 2008. Also, during her career Jacqueline was a member of the Management Executive at the Department of Health at the Scottish Office for 4 years. In 2004 Jacqueline was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to nursing and the NHS.

Telephone: 020 8321 5601

Director of Finance - Rakesh Patel

Rakesh was appointed Director of Finance in Januaury 2012. He joined West Middlesex in 2009 initially as Deputy Director of Finance having previously been Deputy Director of Finance at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust and has over twenty years experience in NHS finance working in both large teaching and local hospitals. Rakesh is a Fellow of the Association of of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Telephone: 020 8321 5414

Medical Director Dr Stella Barnass

Medical Director and Director of Infection Prevention and Control - Dr Stella Barnass

Dr Barnass is a Consultant Microbiologist and has been at West Middlesex for seven years. She became a member of the Trust Board in August 2010. She has led on a number of major projects including the contingency planning for Swine Flu, and was previously Clinical Director for Clinical Support Services.

Telephone: 020 8321 6808

Director of Workforce & Development - Nina Singh

Nina Singh was appointed as Director of Workforce & Development in 2001. Prior to this Nina was the Assistant Director Human Resources at Hounslow & Spelthorne Health Authority, and held a number of senior roles within the NHS working in PCTs and Health Authorities. Nina’s extensive HR experience has been drawn both from the UK & USA where she was the Director of HR in a rehabilitation hospital in New Jersey. Recent contributions to the national agenda include 18 weeks project and the new ways of working programme as part of Skills for Health. Nina has both an Honours degree in Public Administration as and is completing an MSc in Human Resources Leadership.

Telephone: 020 8321 5414

Director of Strategy - Anne Gibbs

Anne joined the Trust in August 2008 working part-time as Director of Business Development. She took up a full time position in December 2009 having worked part-time previously for the NHS Elect network across the UK providing marketing and business development support to members. Anne's role incorporates overseeing the running of the hospital’s clinical operations, supporting the development of Trust strategy and partnership working.

Telephone: 020 8321 5033

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Director of Nursing and Midwifery - Julie Wright

Julie joined the Trust in November 2011 on a secondment from Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where she was Director of Operational Performance and Interim Chief Operating Officer.

Julie has over 25 years health service experience, with a background in nursing, specialising in critical care, and has worked across many London teaching hospitals as well as a period in Australia.

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Director of Operations - Lesley Stephen

Lesley has joined West Middlesex from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust where she was Director of Operations. Lesley was responsible for the delivery of targets, capacity planning, service development and modernisation programmes and secured service reconfiguration changes across hospital sites working closely with clinical teams and local councillors.

Lesley has experience in evaluating and developing national policy and guidance for its implementation through her work with the Audit Commission and the National Audit Office, as well as her role as the Director of Performance at NHS North West London. She has worked in all sectors of the NHS including being the Director of Strategy & Performance at West London Mental Health Trust, the largest English Mental Health Trust incorporating Broadmoor hospital; Lesley has also worked as a management consultant with Deloitte and is a qualified accountant.

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