NORTHAMPTON - Key Persons
Abington ward is the first ward on your left as you enter the building via South entrance.
Alan was appointed as Chairman on 20 December 2018. He has many years' experience as a strategic health authority chief executive and is currently chairman of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Alan was previously chairman of Hinchingbrooke Hospital and Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow. He has also been involved in national work on public sector reform and research and development, and was vice chairman of the NHS Confederation.
I love the challenges that my role as clinical skills educator brings. Having worked here as an oncology nurse for over a decade I now deliver and coordinate the clinical skills training you receive when you join Team NGH. This training package will give you the tools you need to hit the ground running in your new job.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Group Chief Digital Information Officer
Andy was appointed as Group Chief Digital Information Officer across both Northampton General Hospital and Kettering General Hospital in December 2020. He has responsibility for delivery of the digital strategy across both hospitals. For Andy, digital is not a rebadged IT but about a different way of working and across the Group he is striving to apply the culture, processes, business models and technologies of the internet era to respond to people's raised expectations.
Andy was previously the Chief Digital Information Officer at Kettering Hospital and brings a wealth of digital experience to the role from a career spanning the public and private sector. Andy was previously Programme Director for the innovative NHS App at NHS Digital and took the app from inception to availability in the app stores in a little over 12 months. Prior to that he was the Head of Technology Delivery for the national NHS website NHS.UK, which receives c40m visits each month.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Eamil the Team
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- Director of Finance
- Executive Director
Bola started her career in 1997 with PwC and later with KPMG before joining the NHS in 2010. Her career spans audit, consultancy as well as general finance. Since joining the NHS, she has worked across a number of organisations in the acute sector. She joined NGH in 2016 as Deputy Director of Finance and was appointed as interim Director of Finance in December 2020. She is a fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and holds a BSc in Accounting and an MBA from Cranfield University.
Denise joined the NGH Board in February 2020. As an Executive Resourcing and OD professional, Denise is highly experienced at working with Boards and Executive teams in an advisory and developmental capacity. Qualified to Level A and B in Occupational Testing, Myers Briggs and ILM 7 Executive coaching studies, Denise has held posts at Director level across sectors. Throughout her consultancy career, Denise has led and delivered on executive and NED recruitment, major Culture Change projects, organisational structure reviews and Executive coaching. Through her earlier career in the private sector, Denise developed strong business development and commercial skills, and a clear understanding of Customer Focus.
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Consultant Physician - DME and Simulation Director
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Consultant Emergency Medicine - Simulation Lead, HST & CMT Lead
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Consultant Physician - Undergraduates Lead
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Consultant Anaesthetist - Anaesthetic Training Lead
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Consultant Anaesthetist and Intensivist - Foundation Doctors and HFSBT Programme Lead
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Consultant Emergency Medicine - Pre - Hospital Obstetric Training and ED Medical Students Lead
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- Consultant
- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Training Lead
Elena's executive career was in the private equity. Focusing on investments in complex, turnaround situations she managed international teams handling acquisitions and exits across Europe and the Middle East and led restructuring of business in Russia and Finland.
Elena has more than twenty years of board level experience in executive, and non-executive capacities. Her current NED portfolio includes another two organisations in healthcare sector - North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and St Andrews Healthcare. Elena is a qualified accountant and a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Working within the director of nursing, midwifery & patient services corporate team, I lead a group of passionate practice development nurses and midwives who lead by example and have the delivery of the best possible care to our patients and their families at the heart of everything they do on our Pathway to Excellence.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Hospital CEO
- NGH As Hospital Chief Executive
Heidi joined NGH as Hospital Chief Executive in August 2021. Prior to this, Heidi was at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) where she held the role of Deputy Chief Inspector for seven years.
Heidi began her career as a Midwife and has worked in a number of operational roles in NHS Trusts, before leading work at a regional and national level in the CQC.
Jill was appointed as a non-executive director in May 2018. She is currently a registered nurse and has worked as a midwife and health visitor. Jill has had experience in all sectors of healthcare, clinically and managerially within primary and secondary care. As a board member she has been responsible for patient services, quality, medicines optimisation and children, young people and maternity commissioning. Jill was most recently Chief Nurse for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG and is now a Maternity Clinical Lead within the national Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Management Accountant
- Executive Director
- Finance Officer
- Group Chief
Jon joined Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals in June 2021 as Group Chief Finance Officer.
Previously, Jon was Director of Finance at Oxford University Hospitals and prior to that worked in various senior finance roles at Imperial College Healthcare and UCLH in London, having started his career in the NHS on the national graduate training scheme.
Jon is a qualified chartered management accountant and has an MBA from the Alliance Manchester Business School. He is an active member of the HFMA, having been part of various committees and regional branches throughout his career.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Interim Group Director of Integration and Partnerships
Karen has worked for the NHS for 25 years and has experience in strategic planning, business development, transformation, commissioning and contracting. Karen has worked in a variety of posts in planning, performance and strategy within the acute sector as well as roles in system transformation and leadership roles. As Director of Strategy and Partnerships, she is responsible for working with our partners, staff and patients to lead the strategic planning, transformation and development of the Trust. This also includes developing partnerships across the system to deliver integrated care.
I have real a passion and commitment to Medicine and Urgent Care at NGH having worked in the division since qualifying in 2003. I have a good understanding of the directorate and the pressures we all face. I want to promote learning and development for all nurses and HCA's throughout the division and make it easier for you to access it so that we can provide the best possible care to all of our patients.
I am a registered nurse with 28 years' NHS experience. I am responsible for the ongoing professional development of our Band 7 nurses by coordinating and delivering our in-house educational programme. I support nursing pilot projects and the implementation of new processes or ways of working
I have a particular interest in quality improvement and I'm dedicated to improving the quality and safety of patient care.
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- ED Manager - ED Trauma Lead
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Simulation Technician
- Clinical Simulation Technician
"My role is to manage the simulation team and the daily running of the simulation suite. I meet with the regional simulation network and leads for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical and nursing programmes, plan and develop courses. I work strategically with our simulation DME lead and our QI safety lead to plan the development of the simulation suite reporting activity to our stakeholders and executive team."
Mr Tobias Eve, clinical simulation trainer - undergraduate skills and simulation lead
Job Titles:
- Head
- Member of the Eamil the Team
- ED Manager - ED Nurse Lead
As head of professional development I lead the practice development team with Gill. I am passionate about excellence in nursing and strive to bring everyone together to deliver the best possible care to our community.
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Clinical Simulation Trainer
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Assistant Director - Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Mrs M Burt, senior clinical simulation trainer - learning from error LFE programme lead
Dr N Hames, consultant anaesthetist and intensivist - foundation doctors and HFSBT programme lead
Dr T Dyer, consultant emergency medicine - pre-hospital obstetric training and ED medical students lead
Dr T Odbert, consultant emergency medicine -pre-hospital obstetric training and dental sedation training lead
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Clinical Simulation Trainer
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
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- Member of the Eamil the Team
- Clinical Simulation Manager
- RSODP and Clinical Simulation Manager
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive Director
- Chief Operating Officer for Northampton General Hospital
In February 2022 Palmer was appointed as Chief Operating Officer for Northampton General Hospital. Prior to this, he was the Site Executive Director of Operations at Kings College Hospital. He is passionate about empowering our leaders and enabling clinically led change for the benefit of patients across Northamptonshire.
Palmer was initially an Army Officer in the Infantry for just over 9 years serving around the world on operational deployments in Kosovo and Afghanistan. His roles included commanding troops on the front line, Intelligence work, communications, strategic NATO work and training recruits. Since leaving, he joined the NHS and worked in Norfolk, Hertfordshire and London working across all areas of Acute Hospitals before joining us in Northampton.
Job Titles:
- Director of Estates and Facilities
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- Acting Chief People Officer
Rachel Parker was appointed as a non-executive director on 1 January 2020. She has several years' board level experience of managing operations and improving performance through a combination of leadership and strategic planning.
Job Titles:
- Group Executive Director of Transformation and Quality Improvement
Job Titles:
- Group Chief Executive
- Group Chief Executive for Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Simon was appointed as Group Chief Executive for Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust and Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on 1 July 2020. Simon was appointed as chief executive of Kettering General Hospital in July 2018, prior to which he was director of operations and delivery within NHS England. As regional chief operating officer for NHS England in London Simon's responsibilities included public health, primary care and specialised commissioning. He has extensive experience of acute contracting and performance.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Group Director of Estates and Facilities
Stuart's career began in electrical engineering. He has worked in both technical and senior management roles in several industries including airports, automotive manufacturing, semi-conductor manufacturing and facilities management. He joined NGH in December 2006 and prior to his current role he was the Head of Estates and Deputy Director of Facilities.Stuart has responsibility for both hard and soft services facilities management as well as our procurement and sterile services departments.
I joined NGH in 2002 working for trauma and orthopaedics, theatre and then pain services. Since joining the practice development team, my primary role is to work one-to-one with staff in the clinical setting, supporting them in practice and assisting them to achieve excellence in their career goals.