NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board

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.

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 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

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire. 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.

Professor Nil Sanganee

Chief Medical Officer

Professor Sanganee has been a GP since 2004, working as a Partner at Castle Medical Group in Ashby, Leicestershire. 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. Professor 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 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, 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. Professor Sanganee is also our executive lead for Learning Disability and Downs Syndrome.

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.

Angela Hillery

Partner Member – NHS and Foundation Trusts

Angela has worked in the NHS for over 30 years and has a clinical background as a speech and language therapist. She is NHFT's longstanding Chief Executive who consistently ranks in the Health Service Journal's Top 50 rated NHS Chief Executives. In 2019, Angela was appointed Chief Executive of Leicestershire Partnership Trust and is now the joint Chief Executive of the Leicestershire Partnership and Northamptonshire Healthcare Group. Angela brings to the Board a strong belief in developing compassionate cultures. She prioritises co-production and involvement with patients, service users and carers. Angela was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Northampton for her contribution to leadership.

Dr Dipesh Naik

Partner Member – Primary Medical Services

In 2012, he became Northampton Central Locality Chair for Nene Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). He subsequently joined the emerging GP Federation, General Practice Alliance Limited (GPA), in 2014 as Clinical Executive Director. In this role, he worked across 27 GP practices serving approximately 250,000 patients, leading the development of at-scale services including enhanced access appointments and online consultation platforms. Dr Naik has extensive experience in both primary care and urgent care settings, having worked in Out-of-Hours services alongside his role as a GP Partner at Abington Medical Centre in Northampton. This combination of experience provides him with a broad and comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing general practice today. In addition to his clinical work, Dr Naik serves as a Senior University Lecturer in Digital Health, where he explores the application of emerging technologies within healthcare. His areas of interest include artificial intelligence, robotics, telemedicine and the wider digital transformation of healthcare services. Dr Naik strongly believes that general practice is central to delivering a healthcare system that is cost-effective, efficient and sustainable. He advocates for empowering GPs to lead and implement the changes necessary to meet the evolving needs of patients and the NHS. A passionate supporter of digital innovation, he believes that technology should enhance clinical practice by supporting healthcare professionals, improving patient care and increasing meaningful patient contact, rather than constraining or replacing clinicians.

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.

Melanie Williams

Partner Member - Local Authorities

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.