Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Joe Smyth

IWT Chief Officer

Joe joined our trust in October 2019. In his previous role he worked with 8 CCGs and 4 acute trusts to develop an acute clinical site strategy for North West London. Prior to that, Joe was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Hillingdon Hospitals for seven years and led on the creation of their Integrated Care Partnership. He was also the Director of Service Improvement at Epsom and St Helier in South London and spent 3 years at the Royal Bournemouth NHS Trust as their Deputy COO where he led the reconfiguration of their hospital sites.

Lee McPhail

Chief Delivery Officer

Lee was appointed Chief Delivery Officer of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust in January 2024. Lee has more than 20 years' experience within the NHS, including leading operational roles at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, Barts Health NHS Trust and, prior to this, North Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust. Before commencing with our organisation, he had been at Croydon since 2018. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer for that Trust in 2019, with a focus on bringing them and NHS Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group closer together to maximise the resources available for the frontline.

Mark Orchard

Chief Financial Officer / Deputy Chief Executive

Mark joined PHU in October 2019 as Chief Financial Officer before taking up the joint role with IWT in September 2023. Previously Mark was Executive Director of Finance at Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of four NHS providers working together with the Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, as a wave one integrated care system. Mark is currently national chair of the NHS Providers Finance and Commercial Directors Network. Mark has also held the Wessex system Finance Director post at NHS England, the Commissioning Finance Director role at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, and more latterly, at NHS Bournemouth and Poole. Mark was national president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) during 2016/17 and served a full 10 years as Trustee on their national Board between 2009 to 2019.

Michelle Stanley

Chief Strategy Officer

Michelle was appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for both Isle of Wight and Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trusts in April 2025. She has worked in the NHS since 1996 and has extensive senior operational experience, having successfully managed two community hospitals in the Midlands. She is a registered physiotherapist specialising in frailty and balance disorders and holds a registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. Before moving to the island in 2020, Michelle worked as a consultancy director, travelling the UK to work with NHS organisations on improvement, transformation and strategy. Michelle has also held the positions of Programme Director of Strategy, Partnership and Transformation and Director of Strategy and Improvement for IWT.

Natalie Borman

Chief Medical Officer

Paul Hargreaves

Chief People and Culture Officer

Paul joined as Chief People and Culture Officer in June 2026, bringing extensive experience of working in people management and Board-level and HR leadership roles across the NHS. Prior to joining the Trust, Paul served as Deputy Chief People Officer at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust, where he provided strategic leadership across People Services within a dual-Trust group. He has also held the role of Executive Director of People and Organisational Development at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Professor Anoop J Chauhan MBE

Chief Research Officer

Steve Parker

Medical Director

Christine Slaymaker CBE

Non-Executive Director (IWT) and Associate Director (PHU)

Christine has been a member of both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Trust since 2017. Prior to this she was Chief Executive of Farnborough College of Technology, rated ‘Outstanding' for Quality and Financial Health. She is a business graduate and has held non-executive positions for a number of organisations including Farnborough Aerospace Consortium, Treloar School and College, a Royal Engineers' charity and the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership. Christine was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2014. She is from the Portsmouth area and still lives locally.

Deborah McKenzie

Non-Executive Director

Deborah is an experienced public sector and private sector leader with a passion for supporting people and organisations to thrive. She has worked in the health sector since 2005, starting as a non Executive director at the Royal Surrey County Hospital before working at the London Strategic Health Authority, followed by the Department of Health and Social Care. Deb joined Public Health England in January 2013 as it was created, moving to NHSBT in autumn 2021. She has served on the Boards of both NHS Blood and Transplant and Public Health England as Chief People Officer and is a Fellow of the CIPD. Prior to 2005 she worked as an independent OD practitioner, and before that was an associate partner with Accenture she led several large-scale change programmes. Her early career was spent in the private sector. Deborah joined the Trust Board in April 2024.

Graham Barneston

Non-Executive Director

Graham, a Chartered Management Accountant, has over twenty years' experience in the maritime, logistics and retail sectors and has held senior leadership positions in SMEs and multi-billion turnover businesses in these industries. Most recently he was Chief Financial Officer of the cross-Solent operator Red Funnel. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership where he sits on the Funding Finance & Performance Management Group and has been a Non-Executive Director and Vice Chair of Maritime UK Solent. A resident of Cowes on the Isle of Wight, Graham is a Governor of the Isle of Wight College where he is Vice Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Capital Committee. He is also a Trustee of two Island charities, Independent Arts and the Isle of Wight Literary Festival. A Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute, Graham holds a BSc (Econ) from University College London.

Nigel Chapman

Non-Executive Director

Nigel joined the Trust Board as a Non-Executive Director (NED) in January 2026. He is Chair of the Quality and Performance Committee. He has extensive experience as a NED and Trustee in the health and charity sectors, having been a NED at South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust from 2016 until 2025. He is currently Chair of Elmore Community Services (a specialised mental health charity) based in Oxford. He has chaired Plan UK, Nacro and Care International UK. He is also a local Councillor on Oxford City Council. He held many senior roles in broadcasting at the BBC including as Director of BBC World Service from 2004 to 2009. He led Plan International, the global children's charity as CEO from 2009-2015.

Phil Berrington

Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair (IWT and PHU)

Phil has been a Non-Executive Director with IWT since January 2019 and at PHU since January 2023. He became Deputy Chair in November 2023 and is the Chair of the Finance and Infrastructure Committee. He was formerly an Executive Partner in IBM Consulting leading accounts where clients were undergoing large and complex transformation journeys, enabled by technological change. In his consulting work, Phil has experience of working in the public sector, notably with a large central government department helping them transform back-office functions and processes. Most recently, Phil was IBM's Lead Client Partner for large media production and broadcasting organisation. Phil is a Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA), a Chartered Management Consultant, and holds a post graduate diploma in Strategy & Innovation from Said Business School.

Professor Greta Westwood CBE

Associate Director (IWT and PHU)

Stephen Brooks

Non-Executive Director

Stephen joined the trust in January 2024 as a Non-Executive Director. In the first part of his career, he held senior HR roles in Bank of America, General Electric, Morgan Grenfell, and Deutsche Bank. He subsequently became a management consultant and partner at KPMG and PA Consulting. He led a wide range of business projects for public and private sector companies in the UK and abroad. His clients included Northern Rock, DWP, HM Treasury, NHS, BBC Worldwide, and Channel 4. He is also a Governor of the Isle of Wight College and Coventry University. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Royal Society for Arts, and an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership & Management. Stephen lives in Cowes.

Toby Salt

Non-Executive Director

Toby is an experienced Non-Executive Director (NED) whose family work also work in the NHS. He is Chair of CATS Global Schools and Ryde Academy Council, Visiting Professor of Education Leadership at the University of Wolverhampton, and Chair of the Teaching Awards Trust. Toby joined the Trust Board in January 2026. Toby was Chief Executive of AQA, the largest exam board in the UK which has several profit-making subsidiaries and technology start-ups. He was also CEO of Ormiston Academies Trust, overseeing 42 academies in some of the most challenging areas of the country and leading 3,500 staff and 26,000 students. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Chief Executive of the National College for School Leadership, advising ministers and shaping national leadership development policy. He was director of the Department for Education's Innovation unit and before this head of several schools, in the specialist sector.