NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

Bill Shields

Executive Director of Finance

In his current role Bill has executive lead responsibility for financial management and probity; financial recovery; technical contracting; investment shifts and sustainability; financial strategy, forecasting and planning; procurement programme costing; payment mechanisms – incentives, and spend and activity controls; digital transformation and General Practice information technology; business and operational planning, including demand and capacity.

Clair Raybould

Executive Director of Strategy and Citizen Experience

Clair’s leadership journey includes roles as Director of Operations at NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Chief Operating Officer at NHS South West Lincolnshire CCG, and positions in Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities. Her operational and strategic expertise spans service redesign, emergency planning and clinically led transformation. She is known for practical, people-focused leadership and for building strong partnerships with clinicians, system partners and local communities. This supports her current portfolio priorities of population health strategic development and planning, alongside engaging and communicating with communities to understand experiences and what matters most to people living in and visiting the ICB’s geography. In her current role Clair has executive lead responsibility for population health strategy development and strategic planning; deep population engagement and deliberative service design and insights; strategic workforce planning; market development; strategic partnerships and provider development; development of Neighbourhood Health Teams and Integrated Health Organisations; health devolution; stakeholder management (including Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise, political stakeholders, academia, innovation); service configuration; and internal and external communications.

Dr Dave Briggs

Executive Director of Outcomes (Medical)

Dave then took a role at East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group as the system lead for both Urgent and Emergency care as well as for the Better Care Together System Programme. This programme aimed to positively transform health and social care services by integrating them and making them more sustainable. In more recent years, Dave has continued to practice clinically, supporting local emergency department teams and has been the Medical Director for Professional Standards and System Improvement at NHS England and NHS Improvement Midlands. Now the Director of Outcomes, incorporating medical director responsibility for the cluster of ICBs, Dave continues to prioritise leading and supporting clinical improvements and outcomes for the people of the Midlands. Dave is also the Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the clustered ICBs in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire.

Helen Dillistone

Executive Director of Transition

Maria Principe

Executive Director of Commissioning

Maria has extensive board-level experience, having led commissioning within the city of Nottingham. She played a key role in supporting financial turnaround and improving system sustainability during that period, including through her tenure as Turnaround Lead at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. She was also the lead for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire’s response during Covid. Maria holds an MBA in Law with a focus on contracting, bringing a strong commercial and governance perspective to her NHS leadership. This was also a significant factor in her successful development of the NHS System Analytics Intelligence Unit in Nottinghamshire. In her current role Maria is the ICB’s Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Accountable Emergency Officer and has executive lead responsibility for data, analytics and intelligence, population health data, population health segmentation, forecasting and modelling; performance assessment and management of contracted services; market management; commissioning intentions; operational plan delivery and impact monitoring; joint commissioning (including neighbourhood health); and primary care.

Rosa Waddingham

Executive Director of Quality (Nursing)

Rosa is an Honorary Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University and works closely with the Florence Nightingale Foundation and NHS Professionals, supporting advisory boards. She is passionate about people and person-centred approaches to care, and has undertaken executive leadership roles focused on learning disabilities, autism, Down’s syndrome, SEND and safeguarding. Rosa also supports a number of networks and mentoring programmes and works with Girlguiding UK to support and empower girls and young women. In her current role Rosa is the ICB’s Caldicott Guardian and has executive lead responsibility for Quality improvement methodologies and data driven risk-based interventions; Commissioning for quality; Clinical Governance/Quality strategy; Coproduction; Patient experience and complaints; Patient safety; Continuing healthcare; Infection Prevention Control; Local Maternity and Neonatal System / Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership; Children and young people (aged 0 to 25); Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (aged 0 to 25); Safeguarding (all-age), including looked after children and care leavers; Learning disability and autism (all-age); and Down syndrome (all-age).

Dr Andy Mott

Primary Medical Services Partner Member

Andy attended medical school in Sheffield and completed his GP training in Chesterfield and Bolsover. He has been a GP in Derbyshire for more than 20 years and is a Partner at Jessop Medical Practice near Alfreton. Andy has held several wider leadership roles, including membership of Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s Governing Body and service as a Primary Care Network Clinical Director. Andy is Medical Director of the Derby and Derbyshire GP Provider Board, established in 2022 to bring practices and Primary Care Networks together as a unified provider voice in strategic discussions and meetings across the Integrated Care System.

John Dunstan

Non-Executive Director

John qualified with Ernst and Young before holding a number of financial, operational and strategy roles at The Boots Company plc. Following four years with a retail start-up, John completed 15 years as Finance Director with Interflora. Alongside his executive career, John spent over 15 years involved with Greenwood Academies Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust and its predecessor entities, and was latterly Chair of the Audit Committee. He also served as Non-Executive Director at Our Learning Cloud, a wholly owned IT services spin-off from that organisation. John chairs the ICB’s Audit Committee in Common and Auditor Panel in Common and is the ICB’s Conflict of Interest Guardian.

Jon Towler

Non-Executive Director

Jon has been involved with the NHS for more than fifteen years, previously chairing both a Primary Care Trust and the East Midlands Ambulance Service. Since 2015, he has supported NHS commissioning in a non-executive capacity across multiple Clinical Commissioning Groups, before transitioning to NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB in 2022. Jon chairs the ICB’s Joint Strategic Commissioning Committee and acts as the Boards’ Deputy Chair and Senior Non-Executive Member. Jon also chairs a national conservation charity, which brings together more than 100,000 people each year to protect and restore nature. Outside of work, Jon is married with two sons and lives in Nottinghamshire.

Margaret Gildea

Non-Executive Director

Margaret has been a Non-Executive Director with Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust since 2016, helping to develop the People First approach, which supported the Trust’s move to a CQC rating of Good. She was Chair of the Remuneration and Appointments Committee and People and Culture Committee at NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB and chairs the ICB’s Joint Remuneration Committee. Margaret lives in Melbourne, South Derbyshire.

Mark Powell

Chief Executive, Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Ordinary Member – Mental Health)

Before joining the Trust, Mark was Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. He lives in Derby and was appointed following a rigorous national recruitment process. Mark has more than 20 years’ NHS experience and previously worked for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as Chief Operating Officer, where he led the Trust’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. His earlier roles include Executive Director of Operations at Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He also has experience in public health, including developing community health improvement programmes for children with obesity, and in acute, community and mental health commissioning through a previous role at South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust. Mark is an Ordinary Member of the ICB Board, appointed by all three ICBs for his knowledge and experience of services relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

Mehrunnisa Lalani

Non-Executive Director

Mehrunnisa now works as a freelance organisational development consultant, specialising in cultural transformation, equality, diversity and inclusion, workforce development, conflict resolution and stakeholder relationship management. Her current roles include Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Lead for Coventry University Group, member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s Fitness to Practise, and member of the Post Office Scandal Research Advisory Group. Mehrunnisa began volunteering in her community and wider society at the age of 10, with her faith and upbringing helping to shape the values by which she lives. She continues to mentor and support individuals to thrive and progress in their careers. She is also a member of the Seacole Group and the Asian Professionals National Alliance NHS Group. Mehrunnisa has held a number of non-executive positions in the health and voluntary sectors within the East Midlands. She has served on Strategic Health Authorities, the Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards and the board of a Clinical Commissioning Group. Mehrunissa is the ICB’s Freedom to Speak Up Guardian. Nationally, she has been a member of the Doctors and Dentists Pay Review Body. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Studies, a Joint Negotiating Committee qualification in Youth and Community Work, and an MA in Health and Community Studies.

Sharon Robson

Non-Executive Director

Sharon is recognised as a collaborative and inclusive leader with a strong focus on person-centred care and population health management. She brings extensive frontline clinical knowledge and experience to the ICB Boards, alongside a strong track record of improving the quality, safety and experience of healthcare services. Sharon was appointed to the NHS Lincolnshire ICB Board in August 2023 and currently chairs the ICB’s Joint Quality Committee.

Stephen Jackson

Non-Executive Director

After qualifying as an accountant, Stephen joined Bass plc and held several senior financial roles in the company’s headquarters and hotel subsidiaries. He has since held a wide range of senior roles, including five years in Hong Kong as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Development and IT for Holiday Inn Asia Pacific. He has also held senior financial roles in Belgium, Germany, South Africa, Spain and the USA. In 2003, Stephen joined Nottingham Trent University (NTU), where he held the post of Chief Financial and Operations Officer with overall responsibility for Finance, Estates, Commercial Development, Legal, Registry, IT and Governance Services. He was also appointed as a member of the Board of Governors and the Academic Board. Stephen left NTU in 2016 and joined Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a Non-Executive Director. He went on to become Vice Chair at Nottinghamshire Healthcare and to chair the Audit and Risk Committee. Stephen also acts as a Non-Executive Director or Governor with the following local organisations: · Non-Executive Director at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust; Outside of work, Stephen is a keen participant and spectator of sports of all kinds and has a passionate interest in environmental issues. Stephen chairs the ICB’s Joint Finance Committee.

Stephen Posey

Chief Executive, NHS Foundation Trust Partner Member

At Royal Papworth, Stephen led the successful move to a new state-of-the-art hospital. Under his leadership, Royal Papworth became the first NHS hospital trust in the country to receive an Outstanding rating across all Care Quality Commission domains. Stephen has a strong track record of improving quality and performance, alongside building effective partnerships with industry, research and academic organisations. In addition to his roles as Chief Executive and Partner Member of the NHS Serby and Derbyshire ICB, Stephen holds a number of national and regional leadership roles: Stephen is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.