Member profiles

Before joining the NHS in 2017, Jeff enjoyed a 35-year career in the Police Service. Gaining extensive leadership experience, he achieved the rank of Chief Constable of Gwent Police, holding several other national policing roles.

Jeff, who is originally from Cardiff, has studied at the University of Portsmouth, Cardiff University and most recently, the University of Bath where he received a Doctorate in Policy Research and Practice.

In 2014 he was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal and in 2016 won the Institute of Directors, Director of the Year award for the Public Sector in Wales for his work with the Welsh Government. He is passionate about high quality care, championing the rights and needs of vulnerable citizens and innovation and excellence in public services.

Jane joined NHS Gloucestershire ICB as a Non-Executive Director in July 2022 and took on the Deputy Chair role later that year.

Jane has extensive executive and clinical experience in the NHS and also worked for the Department of Health and Social Care in the Adult Social Care team.

She was Chief Nursing Officer for England for almost 7 years prior to her retirement in January 2019, in addition to being the national director sponsor for learning disabilities, equality, diversity, patient engagement and experience. She was the regional director for London for 15 months.

Jane has honorary doctorates from Edge Hill, New Bucks and Bradford Universities and is a visiting professor at Kingston University.

Jane is Chair of the RCN Foundation and has previously been trustee of Macmillan Cancer Support and COVID-19 Healthcare Support Appeal charities.

Julie is a finance and management professional, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte, with change management and process improvement skills and experience. She has worked across the professional, charitable, private and public sectors, with roles in large accountancy practices, senior positions in the NHS and not for profit organisations, and operational leadership in the innovation sector.

Alongside her executive experience, Julie has held a number of non-executive roles in the NHS, public and charitable sectors. Previously she was a Non-Executive Director of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for 7 years, chairing its Audit, Risk and Assurance Committee.

Ayesha has over 20 years’ experience providing support and challenge to health and care organisations. She currently works in NHS Arden and Gem Commissioning Support Unit as head of Leadership and Organisational Development. She has led Trust and CCG Board and Executive leadership development programmes and advises organisations on Well-led inspections, governance and culture. Ayesha has worked in the private and public sectors and has held a Trustee role in the charitable sector.

Ayesha also has recent experience of supporting NHS England and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) with the delegation of Direct Commissioning (planning and buying primary community pharmacy, optometry (eye) and dental services) functions into ICBs.

Ellen lives in Neath, a county borough in the south west of Wales. Ellen is an experienced Board Director with over 25 years commercial experience in the private sector.

Ellen’s latter commercial roles were with Debenhams PLC (1998 to 2008) in roles as Trading Director, where she was responsible for the development of brands, products, and services. Also, as an Operations Director leading a workforce of over 5,000 staff. She followed this with working as a freelance consultant and executive coach (2010 to 2014).

Since then, Ellen has developed a portfolio of NED roles.

Her current NED commitments are:

• member of the Future workplace property committee for the Welsh Government Board (since 2018)
• NED of the Transport for Wales Steering Board (since 2019)
• NED of the Marie Curie advisory Board Wales (since 2019)
• NED and Chair of the Remuneration committee for the Human Tissue Authority (since March 2021).

Ellen’s previous NED roles were with Qualifications Wales, charing the Remuneration committee and as a member of the Resources committee (2015 to 2021), with the Welsh Government Audit Committee (2014 to 2018), and Linc Cymru (2014 to 2018).

Alison is an established Board level Director with extensive Executive and Non-Executive experience, both in the NHS and Charitable sector. Alison has held leadership and transformational roles at organisation, system and regional levels. With a clinical background as a nurse, Alison brings a systems and people perspective and passion which focusses on population health, reducing health inequalities and the quality of healthcare services.

Professor Sir Steve West lives in Wick, Bristol. Steve trained as a Podiatrist and Podiatric Surgeon; worked as a clinician and clinical tutor in the NHS and the university sector; and undertook research and consultancy in industry and the retail healthcare sectors. He has been employed by the University of the West of England since 2006, and has been the Vice-Chancellor, President and Chief Executive since September 2007.

Steve has also held several national and international advisory appointments in Higher Education, in his clinical discipline, and in healthcare policy and practice. He is currently the President of Universities UK; is a NED with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS FT; is the Chair of the West of England Academic Health Science Network; and until recently (2021) was a NED at the Office for Students and Chair of the West of England LEP.

Steve has also been a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Gloucestershire and was awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year’s Honours list 2017 for services to Higher Education.

Shane has held a range of senior positions within the NHS and social care in both Northern Ireland and England during a career that spans almost three decades.

Studying at Queen’s University, Belfast, Shane graduated in 1995 as a Bachelor of Science: Economics. He followed this with a Postgraduate Diploma from the Institute of Management. Shane also gained a Diploma in Business Improvement from the University of Ulster and studied at Harvard University, participating in the Kennedy School of Government programme ‘Leaders for Tomorrow’.

Before beginning his post at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB in February 2022, Shane was Chief Executive of the Southern Health and Social Care Trust from March 2018. Prior to this he held the post of Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.

Rosi is a registered nurse, and was previously Director of Nursing and Quality for Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), a post she started in January 2020.

As Chief Nursing Officer for the ICB, Rosi is responsible for continuous quality improvement and providing senior clinical leadership to colleagues across the health and care system. Rosi’s role includes embedding meaningful patient and public engagement within the development and improvement of care and ensuring high-quality services for a population of just over one million people.

Before her role at the CCG, Rosi was a Deputy Director of Nursing for NHS England and Improvement, where she worked across the southern region on a range of portfolio areas including quality improvement in primary care, safeguarding, and Continuing Health Care; and was the carers lead for the south of England. Before this, Rosi held a variety of senior roles in health and social care across Gloucestershire, with a focus on the delivery of integration

Raghu joined NHS Gloucestershire in December 2023. Before this, he was Consultant Physician in General/Respiratory Medicine and Associate Medical Director at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT).

Before joining GHNHSFT in 2007, Raghu spent five years as a Consultant Physician at City Hospital in Birmingham.

As Associate Medical Director, he established a thriving leadership development programme for aspiring senior clinical leaders.

Raghu has a keen interest in clinical leadership and has a Masters degree in Healthcare education from Bristol University. He is head of the Postgraduate School of Medicine, Health Education England (South West) and a Host and Chair of Examiners for the Royal College of Physicians.

He is an elected trustee councillor at the Royal College of Physicians.

He was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021.

Cath is a finance professional with experience in NHS roles within Swindon, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. She was Chief Finance Officer for NHS Gloucestershire CCG from its inception in 2013.Cath’s experience has provided her with an in-depth knowledge of a range of key NHS areas, including primary care and partnership arrangements. She is responsible for ensuring good stewardship of the public finances and ensuring that funding is used in the best way to provide value to Gloucestershire. Her responsibilities include financial management, business intelligence, information governance, estates and sustainability.

As Chief Medical Officer at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB, Joanne is responsible for developing a clinical strategy, providing senior clinical leadership to colleagues across the health and care system, and ensuring high-quality services for a population of just over one million people.

Before joining the ICB, Joanne was Medical Director and Deputy Chief Executive at the Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, where she led on clinical effectiveness, quality improvement, innovation and population health. She was the pandemic accountable officer and Director of Infection Prevention and Control, and supported regional implementation of the Virtual Ward Programme.

Joanne has also held previous roles as joint Managing Director and Medical Director of the NHS Southeast London Bexley Business Support Unit and in GP education. In 2013 she participated in the Generation Q Masters programme and remains a Fellow of the Health Foundation.

Jo has over 25 years’ experience in leading and driving change across large organisations as a workforce, leadership and organisational development specialist. She was previously in post as Deputy Chief People Officer and Director of Strategy, Leadership and Belonging at the Ministry of Justice.

Jo is leading the development and delivery of the long-term people strategy for the Integrated Care System, while continuing to build further on our strong relationships with local health and care system leaders.

David has been working in NHS management roles since joining the NHS General Management Training Scheme in 1997. He spent a number of years in hospital management roles, including 10 years at North Bristol NHS Trust as Divisional Manager for Surgical and Women’s and Children’s Services.

David then moved to South Gloucestershire CCG as Director of Operations in 2013; and then from 2017, was Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG’s Area Director for South Gloucestershire and Bristol. More recently, he has also been the executive lead for primary care development.

Kevin joined Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in January 2024 from Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he was the CEO from 2019, leading over 5,500 staff and local communities through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kevin has worked for the NHS since 2003, having worked for the South-Central Strategic Health Authority, before joining Great Western Hospital in 2009 where he was the Director of Strategy and Community Service before becoming CEO in 2019.

As CEO, Kevin is ultimately responsible for the day-to-day leadership of the organisation through his executive team and for ensuring the implementation of the Board’s strategic objectives.

Douglas joined Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Executive in April 2023. Previously, Douglas was Managing Director of Wiltshire Health and Care, which delivers adult community health and learning disability services in Wiltshire, a role he held since its establishment in July 2016.

He joined the NHS in 2006, with Associate Director and Director roles in South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust, the South West Strategic Health Authority and NHS England before being appointed as Director of Community Services at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2014, which led to him establishing Wiltshire Health and Care as an NHS partnership.

Prior to his time in the NHS, he was a civil servant, having being accepted into the Civil Service Fast Stream in 1998.  His government roles included homelessness policy, rural policy, the Scottish Cabinet secretariat and the reform and transformation of the prosecution service in Scotland.  His first career was as a sound engineer, working for EMI at Abbey Road Studios.

Siobhan joined Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) as Deputy Director of Public Health just seven weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Since July 2022, she has been Director of Public Health (DPH) at GCC, overseeing the delivery of a range of public health responsibilities with a focus tackling health inequalities.

Previously, Siobhan worked as a Public Health Consultant in Greater Manchester and Salford.

Siobhan has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Liverpool and she graduated from the North West Public Health Training Scheme in 2014. She has a first-class Honours degree in Physiology and her early career was in local government and health improvement.

Jo is a GP and chief executive of the G DOC, the countywide GP provider, owned by all GP practices in Gloucestershire. She was previously the Care Quality Commission’s National Medical Advisor on Urgent and Emergency Care, and medical director of Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust.

Before becoming a GP, Jo trained in emergency medicine and intensive care, and attained membership of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Jo was awarded an MA in medical law and ethics from the University of Manchester and has studied transformational change in healthcare at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.