KINGFISHERS - Key Persons
Akhter Mateen is a former Chief Auditor of Unilever. He retired from Unilever in December 2012. In his 29-year career, he has held high-level finance roles in Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UK, Latin America, South East Asia and Australasia. Since 2014, he has held non-executive roles in various public, private and not-for-profit organisations. He is currently Deputy Chairman and Audit Committee Chair of Great Ormond Street Hospital Foundation Trust, and a Non-Executive Director of CABI (a not-for-profit international development organisation). He is also Chair and Trustee of Malala Fund UK - focusing on 12 years of free, safe and quality education for girls around the world. He is also a trustee of Developments in Literacy (DIL) UK - a charity contributing to the education of the underprivileged in Pakistan. He has an MBA in Finance.
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- Laboratory Staff Member
- Quality Manager
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- Executive Director
- Chief Digital Information Officer
Beverley joined King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trusts as Chief Digital Information Officer in September 2019.
Prior to this, she worked as Chief Operating Officer for System C Healthcare. Previously, Beverley has held a number of senior leadership roles within the NHS. She was Director of Digital Technology for NHS England and Improvement, and Director of Performance and Improvement (NHS Leeds/Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust). She has also held senior health-related roles as Managing Director for Capita Health, and Chief Information Officer for the Department of Health.
Professor Clive Kay joined King's as Chief Executive in April 2019. Clive has extensive clinical and leadership experience, and prior to taking up his position at King's he was Chief Executive at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from January 2015. Previously he was Clinical Director of Radiology (2001-2006) and subsequently the Medical Director (2006-2014) at Bradford. Prior to working at Bradford, Clive was a Visiting Associate Professor of Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Radiologists, and former Chairman of both the Royal College of Radiologist's Scientific Programme Committee and the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology. He is currently a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Dame Christine Beasley has held senior roles across the NHS in a career spanning 50 years. This includes being appointed Chief Nursing Officer at the Department of Health, a position she held from 2004 to 2012.
She has extensive experience of driving positive changes in clinical practice, as well as overseeing major organisational change and development.
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- Consultant Neuropathologist
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- Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Hepatology
Dr Shawcross has worked at King's since 2007 as an Honorary Consultant in our Liver department, as well as undertaking lecture programmes and research with our Institute of Liver Studies. She treats a large number of patients with advanced liver disease.
"Most patients with liver disease don't have symptoms until something such as an infection puts extra pressure on their liver," she says. "Blood tests can even come back normal when the liver is actually damaged."
Too much alcohol can be very damaging to the liver, as Dr Shawcross explains:
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- Emergency Department Consultant
Dr Fleur Cantle has worked in the King's Emergency Department for five years. During her shifts, Fleur sees a number of patients who attend with injuries or illnesses in which alcohol has played a part.
"If a patient is clearly under the influence of alcohol, it can be harder to diagnose any injuries they have," she explains. "We have to be very cautious and plan their care more carefully, as alcohol can mask what is really wrong with someone. If they have a suspected head injury, we have to scan them and check - but if they attend frequently, this may happen every time, which isn't good for them."
It's also difficult for Emergency Department staff like Fleur to engage with patients who have been drinking. "It can be quite chaotic when you're dealing with a patient who is under the influence," she says. "Most of the time they're very reluctant to be in hospital, so just getting them to stay and have treatment is sometimes the hardest part. They can be abusive too, which is difficult to manage in an already busy department. Of course, patients who have been drinking need help like everyone else - but it can put pressure on additional resources like extra nursing and security."
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- Consultant Neuropathologist
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- Chief Medical Officer
- Executive Director
- Clinical Director for Women
Leonie joined King's as a Consultant Obstetrician in November 2003, with an interest in high-risk obstetrics and fetal medicine. She became Acting Chief Medical Officer in February 2020 and the appointment was made substantive in April 2021.
In 2010, Leonie was appointed Clinical Director for Women's, and when King's joined with the Princess Royal University Hospital in 2013, her role was cross-site. She became a Divisional Medical Director in 2017 in the newly formed Urgent care, Planned care and Allied Clinical services. Prior to her roles at King's, she was a Consultant at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust and St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Throughout her leadership roles, Leonie has remained an active clinician with involvement in both postgraduate and undergraduate education.
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- Clinical Head
- Department: Immunology
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- Alcohol and Substance Misuse Clinical Nurse Specialist
Ian has been at King's since 2007, and works with patients who have liver disease and alcohol or drug problems. He provides patients with psychological and emotional support, as well as clinical treatment.
Ian sees patients according to their individual needs and can provide a range of treatment options for his patients, including assessments, counselling and medication, as well as referrals to other departments within King's, and community addiction services.
"I see most of my patients for three months or less, but this depends completely on their need," says Ian. "I have plenty of long-term patients who I've been seeing for years in my outpatient clinic."
The treatment Ian provides also varies hugely from patient to patient. "The people I treat are from all walks of life, and some may have issues with drugs as well as alcohol - as such, there isn't a ‘one size fits all' treatment," Ian explains. "Sometimes, it can be helpful to identify where they can make helpful changes to their lifestyle to give them a better chance of staying off alcohol. In other cases, patients need medication, or they benefit from attending local groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous."
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- Executive Director
- Site Chief Executive ( Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites )
Jonathan joined the Trust in February 2020. He is responsible for the overall management of the Princess Royal University Hospital and South Sites division.
Prior to this he was Director of Improvement at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He has previously held senior operational roles in a number of organisations. These include The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust, and NHS Grampian.
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- Executive Director
- Site Chief Executive ( King 's College Hospital )
Julie joined the Trust in October 2020 as Interim Site Chief Executive for the King's College Hospital site and was made substantive in the role in April 2021. Julie joined the NHS in 1992 as a national NHS management trainee. She has worked in hospitals in London, Yorkshire and Hertfordshire in a variety of positions, including nine years in Chief Executive roles. Prior to joining King's, Julie spent three years as Programme Director for the South East London Integrated Care System.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Director
Lorcan joined King's in July 2018. He has overall responsibility for the Trust's financial strategy. This includes the development and delivery of the Trust's financial plan and ensuring that effective financial management and control is maintained across the organisation.
Lorcan was a board director at Four Seasons Health Care; an investment held by the private equity firm Terra Firma, where he also held a number of board positions in the healthcare, renewable energy and infrastructure sectors. Prior to this he worked in senior roles at Unilever internationally.
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- Chief People Officer
- Executive Director
Mark joined the Trust as Chief People Officer in September 2021.
Mark was previously Executive Director of Organisational Development and People at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, a role he held for five years before joining us here at King's.
Mark brings significant experience to the role, having worked at a number of secondary and tertiary providers across London, including a previous period at King's where he was Associate Director of Human Resources.
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- Office Manager
- Office Staff Member
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- Office Staff Member
- Secretary
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- Laboratory Staff Member
- Electron Microscopy and Neuromuscular Lead Biomedical Scientist
Nicholas Campbell-Watts has spent much of his career working with people and communities experiencing multiple and complex health and social care challenges linked to mental health, learning disabilities, homelessness, or offending. He has predominantly worked at a senior level in the voluntary sector. He currently works for Certitude, a charity that supports people across London who have learning disabilities, autism, and mental health needs.
Nicholas has a track record of involvement in system and organisational change and transformation, and has previous experience as a Non-Executive Director at Lambeth NHS Primary Care Trust. He has lived and worked in south London for over 30 years and currently lives in Lewisham. He is married with three children.
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- Laboratory Manager
- Laboratory Staff Member
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- Head of Department and Consultant Neuropathologist
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- Chairman
- Chairman of Guy
- Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Health Foundation
- Interim Chair
Sir Hugh was appointed Interim Chair in February 2019. He had a long and distinguished career in the civil service which included senior roles in the NHS Executive, the Cabinet Office, the Home Office, and the Department of Health, where he was made Permanent Secretary. He retired from this role in July 2010.
Sir Hugh is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Health Foundation, and a Trustee of Cicely Saunders International. He is a former Chair of the National Skills Academy for Health, and between 2011 and 2017 he was a Trustee of Macmillan Cancer Support and the Nuffield Trust.
Sir Hugh is also Chair of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, and a Southwark resident. He is committed to improving health services in South East London.
Steve Weiner has spent most of his career in finance with international consumer goods group Unilever. He retired from his role as Global Controller and part of Unilever's finance leadership team in 2018.
He has extensive experience in making operational and commercial decisions involving large budgets and complex financial constraints, and in leading and developing multicultural teams.
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- BBC Producer / Director, and Grace Hughes - Hallett, BBC Assistant Producer
Tom and Grace were part of the Drinking to Oblivion production team. Here they explain why they chose to film at King's and how they approached working with alcohol-dependent patients.
"King's world-renowned liver unit was what initially led us to approach the Trust, but once we'd met the press office and the clinical teams, we were sure that this would be the place to make it. We knew at the start that this documentary would be hard to make, so it was very important to us that the hospital was as enthusiastic as we were about the subject matter.
"Before we started filming, we spent over a month at King's meeting staff, inpatients and outpatients. In a hospital of King's size, it takes a long time for people from outside the organisation to learn how things work - especially as alcohol-dependent patients can be treated in a range of wards and departments, so we needed to be clear who we might be working with, and for the staff to know who we were.
"We are very serious about informed consent with all our contributors, especially when it involves filming people at some of their most vulnerable moments, so we had lengthy conversations with every patient we filmed with beforehand, to make sure they knew exactly what they were involved with. We filmed with some of the patients over a long period of time, and consent was an ongoing process, so the option to stop filming was always there if they decided to take it.
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- NHS Medical Director for Public Health
Professor Yvonne Doyle is currently the NHS Medical Director for Public Health, leading the public health national function within the NHS. Her most recent roles were Medical Director & Director of Health Protection in Public Health England (2019 to 2021), and PHE Regional Director for London (2013 to 2019). Yvonne has acted as Statutory Adviser to two Mayors of London. She qualified as a doctor and has worked for over 30 years in senior roles in the NHS and the UK Department of Health, and in the academic and independent sectors.
She has acted as an adviser to the WHO on Healthy Cities and continues to take a research interest in urban health and the environment.