NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board

Dr Nil Sanganee

Chief Medical Officer

Dr Sanganee has been a GP since 2004, working as a Partner at Castle Medical Group in Ashby. Being passionate about medical education, he has also worked as a GP Trainer, Medical Student Tutor, GP Appraiser and Examiner for the Royal College of GPs. He has been a longstanding Board Member for West Leicestershire CCG (WLCCG) and since 2020, was the Vice Chair of the CCG, leading on a wide range of clinical pathways and driving improvements in the quality of care. In his role as Medical Director for the LLR Integrated Care Board, Dr Sanganee will oversee the Clinical Strategy and priorities for the transformation of high quality, accessible services within primary, community and hospital sectors to ensure that we are delivering the highest standards of care and achieving the best outcomes for our patients. He is keen to champion the role of a broad range of health and care professionals both at the frontline of patient care and in leadership roles across the system. Using his experience as a clinical leader in LLR, he will continue to listen and respond to patients’ views to improve the service that our citizens experience locally and to optimise the health of our population overall, whilst driving down inequalities in health and care outcomes.

Eileen Doyle

Chief Delivery Officer

Eileen previously worked as the county’s Integrated Care System (ICS) Transition Director and has almost 30 years of NHS experience. She has held a number of executive positions including as Hospital CEO at Northampton General Hospital and Hospital Chief Executive at Kettering General Hospital. As Chief Delivery Officer, Eileen’s responsibilities include performance management, service redesign and improvement, some aspects of contracting, emergency planning and public and patient communication and engagement. Eileen said: “This is an exciting time of change. There is finally an opportunity for health and social care to work more closely together for the benefit of the local population. Although change can sometimes pose challenges, between us, we will now be able to design a system that breaks down many of our historical boundaries. This will ensure that the population of the county – irrespective of where you live or your background – can have equal and enhanced access to joined-up care, according to their needs.”

Maria Laffan

Chief Nursing Officer

Maria our Chief Nursing Officer is a registered general nurse. She has spent most of her career working across Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire in nursing, operational and director roles. Her most recent role was as deputy chief nurse for Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) ICB and director of nursing CCG, and prior to that her clinical specialist background was predominantly in urgent care, out of hours and community services provision. Her experience spans nursing, quality, governance, safeguarding, strategy and quality improvement. Her interest is in supporting quality health care provision and oversight, working collaboratively and across systems and places to reduce health inequalities to support providing the highest quality clinical care for the population she serves . Maria is a keen music lover, dog walker and enjoys travelling. Maria is also our executive lead for Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Matt Gaunt

Interim Chief Finance Officer

Matt has over 40 years’ experience of commercial and financial management in a succession of senior roles in the private and public sectors. He joined the NHS in 2009 and has worked in the Midlands and Northwest of England in senior finance roles, including over 10 years as CFO. Matt is executive lead for finance, contracting, procurement and corporate governance. Prior to joining Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (ICB), he was CFO of NHS Lincolnshire ICB. Matt understands our population, rightly expects a safe, effective and sustainable NHS and sees his role as ensuring the ICB make best possible use of the resources that the taxpayer entrusts to it. He has a keen interest in how the NHS can work with charities and the voluntary sector in delivering social value to our population across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Matt lives with his partner Sarah, near Ratby, Leicestershire.

Pete Burnett

Chief Strategy Officer

Pete joined the NHS in 2008 and has worked in the public sector for 20 years in a range of roles across service delivery, strategy, planning and leading transformation programmes. During his career in the NHS, Pete has worked for various NHS organisations including East Midlands Ambulance Service, Nottingham University Hospitals, and Nottingham City Clinical Commissioning Group. His last role prior to working for the NHS in Lincolnshire was at NHS England and Improvement, operating as the primary relationship manager for NHS provider Trusts and commissioners in the Lincolnshire system. Initially the interim STP Programme Director for Lincolnshire ICB from February 2020, Pete was subsequently recruited to the role of System Strategy and Planning Director in April 2021. Pete played a key role in establishing NHS Lincolnshire ICB and was the Executive lead for the ICB’s Strategy, Planning, Communications and Engagement functions.

Afzal Ismail

Non-Executive Member

Afzal is currently a Non-Executive Director at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire and recently served as a trustee of a large multi schools academy trust board. He is also a Group Executive Director at Orbit Housing Group.

Andrew Hammond

Non-Executive Member

Andrew is an experienced Executive and Non-Executive Director working in Charity, Commercial and Public sectors. He spent his early career establishing a National Awareness Charity, and is now Chief Executive of Instructus, an education charity working in skills development, personal development and apprenticeships.

Dr James Ogle

Partner Member - Primary Medical Services

Dr Ogle has been a GP Partner at Ratby Surgery since 2015 combining his clinical work with leading a project for the development of Ratby Medical Centre which opened in 2023. He has been engaged with Hinckley and Bosworth Medical Alliance, a GP Federation in Hinckley and Bosworth District throughout this period other than a 2-year gap where he had roles within Medicines Prescribing and Urgent Care for the former West Leicestershire CCG between 2017-2019. Since 2019, Dr Ogle has been the Clinical Director for both Bosworth Primary Care Network and Hinckley and Bosworth Medical Alliance. More recently he was the Primary Care lead for Leicestershire before being elected as the chair of the Leicestershire Primary Care Provider Collaborative in 2025. He is committed to championing patient care closer to home through neighbourhood health projects and improving the development and improvement of Primary Care Services, with a focus on working collaboratively with other local organisations. Outside of the NHS, he is an avid gardener and enjoys coaching his local junior football team. We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings . This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

Liz Gaulton

Non-Executive Member

Liz started her career as a general and mental health nurse, working in primary and secondary care before pursing a career in public health. Liz has a wealth of experience in senior roles in both local government and the NHS and has previously held the position of Director of Public Health in St Helens and more recently Coventry. Her key interests and expertise include social inclusion and health inequalities.

Mike Sandys

Partner Member - Local authority sectoral representative

Mike was appointed Director of Public Health for Leicestershire County Council and Rutland County Council in February 2014. He has worked in public health since the early 1990s in a number of public health intelligence, research and development, manager and consultant roles for both the NHS, local government and academia. Mike moved to the East Midlands in 2005. Before that he spent most of his career working across Greater Manchester and Merseyside. Mike’s public health interest lies in the health improvement capability of asset-based community development approaches, moving public health from a focus on disease and illness to one that recognises the context in which people live their lives. He is a passionate advocate for physical activity.

Richard Mitchell

Partner Member - Acute sector representative

Richard re-joined UHL as chief executive in October 2021 having worked as the chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for four years. In 2020, SFHNFT was voted HSJ Acute/ Specialist Trust of the Year and its Acute site was rated Outstanding by the CQC. In 2021 the Trust finished third out of 119 NHS Acute Trusts in the NHS Staff Survey. Richard previously worked as deputy chief executive and chief operating officer for four years at UHL and before that, he worked at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in senior management roles. Richard is married with two children and is the Chair of the East Midlands Cancer Alliance and Midlands Regional and Talent Leadership Board.

Simone Jordan

Non-Executive Member

Simone is an experienced Executive working at Board, system and national levels for almost 30 years in the NHS – as a Chief Executive, Executive and Non Executive Director. She also has significant Board development and governance expertise. Her other UK experience includes working in service and hospitality sectors, manufacturing, health, higher and further education and other public sector organisations. She has worked internationally advising government on healthcare reform and has been a speaker at international conferences on change and improvement. With professional qualifications in HR and OD, an MBA and significant expertise in quality improvement, Simone has led major organisational change programmes and is passionate about workforce and staff experience and wellbeing.