Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Archana Makol

Non-Executive Director

Archana joined the Trust in June 2025. She is a lawyer with a background in health and safety, claims management and client liaison. Archana brings a wealth of commercial experience, having worked in-house at BT PLC and also in private practice, including setting up a regulated commercial subsidiary at BT.

Dr Delroy Beverley

Non-Executive Director

Current Term: 3 January 2025 to 2 January 2027.

Elaine Jeffers

Non-Executive Director

Elaine brings a wealth of experience from her 40-year career within the NHS, where she has held senior and director roles across a variety of organisations and services. Her extensive background has provided numerous opportunities to influence the strategic direction of organisations and to shape how clinical and non-clinical teams approach their roles and responsibilities in delivering safe, high-quality care.

Ian Ailles

Non-Executive Director

Ian holds a number of Non-Executive and Trustee roles across housing, care homes and hospices as well as with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

Jayne Stringfellow

Non-Executive Director

Jayne has worked in the NHS as a nurse for more than 40 years and gained professional qualifications in nursing, midwifery, health visiting and NHS management. Throughout this time Jayne has always worked in roles requiring ongoing clinical knowledge and skills. Most recently Jayne held the post of interim Chair, until returning to her role as Non-Executive Director in April 2026.

John Somers

Non-Executive Director

John joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in August 2023. He is an experienced leader who has more than 22 years' board level experience in public and private sector organisations. His most recent position, until retirement in July 2022, was as Chief Executive Officer of Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, which he joined in 2014. Prior to that he has worked in various senior NHS roles across commissioning, community services and acute hospital care.

Nicola Haywood-Cleverly

Non-Executive Director

With a background in engineering, Nicola has successfully led large-scale, complex change initiatives, often digitally enabled, to drive improvements and transformation across the public sector, including integrated care systems. She has served as a Chief Information Officer in both the NHS and policing.

Paul Wood

Senior Independent Director and Deputy Chair

Paul has worked a General Practitioner in the NHS for over 30 years. He undertook his training in Nottingham, Derby and Leicestershire and settled in Derbyshire, being a GP partner in Derby from 1993, until retiring from the practice in 2022. Whilst being a GP, he embraced other roles in Primary Care Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups. Paul was part of Southern Derbyshire CCG from its inception and was Chair between 2016-2019.This CCG commissioned healthcare for over half a million people in Derby and Southern Derbyshire. In addition to chairing SDCCG he was Interim Chair of Joined Up Care Derbyshire (JUCD) for two years until 2019.