Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Simon Roe

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Roe originally joined Sherwood Forest Hospitals as its Deputy Medical Director from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in November 2023. He stepped up to become its Acting Medical Director in May 2024 and accepted the Trust’s offer to become its Chief Medical Officer, the Trust's highest-ranking medical role. He had previously worked clinically for a number of years at Sherwood, as well as having previously served as the Trust's clinical lead for its medicine division in a previous spell at Sherwood.

Phil Bolton

Executive Chief Nurse

Phil was appointed as Chief Nurse in May 2022. Phil previously worked in Trauma/Orthopaedics, Urgent and Emergency Care; Geriatrics, Stroke and Neurology; and as Hospital Matron at Newark. He later became Deputy Chief Nurse until September 2020 when he moved to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton as Director of Nursing and then Interim Chief Nurse. Phil is committed to putting a strong focus on the fundamentals of care and the key things that matter to our patients and their family members, he also wants us treat each other as we would like to be treated – to be kind, to listen and to be inclusive.

Richard Mills

Chief Financial Officer

Richard was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in June 2022. Richard previously served as the Trust’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer since April 2019 before becoming its Interim Chief Financial Officer in October 2021. Richard has over 15 years’ experience in NHS finance and, among his other portfolios, is responsible for overseeing the financial sustainability of the Trust, where he takes an active role in system-wide partnership working as we move into the new era of statutory integrated care systems.

Robert Simcox

Chief People Officer

Robert has been with Sherwood Forest Hospitals as its Deputy Director of People since April 2016 before he became the Trust's Director of People in June 2022. Robert now leads the Trust’s People Directorate, which supports the Trust’s workforce to be the best they can be, along with leading system-wide collaboration regarding the people agenda. Robert continues to oversee the work that has helped Sherwood Forest Hospitals to be named as the best acute hospital to work for across the East Midlands in the National NHS Staff Survey each year since 2018.

Sally Brook Shanahan

Director of Corporate Affairs

Sally Brook Shanahan joined Sherwood Forest Hospitals as the Trust’s Director of Corporate Affairs in May 2023. Sally joined the Trust from Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) where her background as a solicitor, her wealth of public service, and her strengths in corporate governance will serve her – and the Trust – well in her new role. Sally is the Trust’s Executive lead for Information Governance, Risk Assurance and Community Involvement. She also oversees the work of Trust’s Corporate Secretariat.

Simon Illingworth

Chief Operating Officer

Simon joined the Trust in July 2025 from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, where he served as its Chief Operating Officer since August 2023.

Andrew Rose-Britton

Non-Executive Director

Andrew was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in April 2022. He has an MBA in Finance from Nottingham University and is a Chartered Accountant. His recent experience in the healthcare sector has been as a Board Trustee of the mental health charities MHM and Waymarks. Within the NHS he was a Non-Executive Director of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust from 2004-2008, where he chaired the Audit committee and Finance committee at various times. Commercially he was Finance Director and Company Secretary of a retail pharmacy from 1995 to 2012. He has lived in Nottinghamshire since 1988.

Barbara Brady

Non-Executive Director

Barbara is a registered general nurse and a specialist in Public Health, who was Director of Public Health for Nottinghamshire until March 2018. Barbara lives in Newark and combines her Non-Executive position on the Board with occasional consultancy work for the Local Government Association, which supports the Care and Health Improvement programme with local authorities and partners across England. Barbara is also the Trust's Senior Independent Director (SID).

Lisa Maclean

Non-Executive Director

Lisa Maclean joined Sherwood Forest Hospitals in February 2025, having previously served as a Director of Nursing in a number of NHS and independent sector organisations, as well as having worked as a nurse in acute, psychiatric and forensic psychiatric settings. Ms Maclean was also a director of a military charity and a hospice. She also serves on the Trust’s Quality and Finance Committees.

Manjeet Gill

Non-Executive Director

Manjeet Gill joined the Trust in November 2019. Manjeet has a range of Board and chief executive-level experience across local government and the NHS. She is passionate about health equalities, community engagement and organisational development to achieve the full potential of people in delivering excellent services. Manjeet has experience of system change as strategic commissioner, mental health and local government services including social care and housing. Her transformation experience includes improving corporate and partnership governance and delivery, estate reconfiguration, leadership and cultural change, performance turnaround and customer and digital strategies for new models of service delivery. Her previous roles as a NED have been at a Mental Health Foundation Trust and a national Charity responsible for developing community and voluntary sector groups. Manjeet has advised on national policies as society of local authority chief officers policy lead for housing and leadership and currently for health and well-being. She is also currently a government appointed NED appointed on the independent office for police conduct.

Neil McDonald

Non-Executive Director

Neil has lived in Nottinghamshire since 1999 and joined the Trust Board as Non-Executive Director in December 2023. He has 38 years’ experience in the rail industry, having started out as an engineering apprentice. After 27 years in engineering, he moved into general management as Managing Director of the Industrial Business Unit of EWS Railways/DeutscheBahn (DB), followed by a period as Head of Sales. In 2015, he became the Chief Operating Officer of the first heavy haul Railway in the UAE, a joint venture between DB and Etihad Rail. For five years, he was a Non-Executive Director of the Railway Safety and Standards Board, representing freight members. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Board of Governors for West Nottinghamshire College where has been a member of the Senior Postholder and Governance Committee and Chair of the Audit Committee. He has an MBA from Nottingham Trent University and brings 20 years’ executive management experience to the Trust Board.

Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam

Associate Non-Executive Director (Research and Innovation)

Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam (JVT) was appointed as an Associate Non-Executive Director on the Trust’s Board of Directors, with a specific focus on research and innovation, in February 2025. ‘JVT’ will be familiar to many from his time helping to lead the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where he became a familiar face as the government’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer, leading on health protection between October 2017 to March 2022. His significant clinical experience in emergency medicine, anaesthesia, general medicine, infectious diseases and the pharmaceutical industry, along with over 30 years as a leading medical researcher in Nottingham, supports Sherwood Forest Hospital’s ambition to further its research and innovation efforts that saw it involve over 5,000 participants in its research in the 2023/24 financial year alone.

Richard Cotton

Non-Executive Director

Richard Cotton has a wealth of experience as Chair, Senior Independent Director (SID), Audit Chair, Non-executive Director (NED), advisory and senior financial roles in life sciences and other industrial sectors. His extensive experience covers product development, operations and supply chain, and commercial activities in varied international organisations. He has significant experience in the development and successful execution of strategy, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and governance. Currently, Richard is Audit Chair and Lead Independent Director at Nasdaq-listed AI predictive diagnostics company Spectral AI, is SID and Audit Chair at AIM-listed topical oxygen wound therapy company AOTI, and is Audit Chair at AIM-listed Contract Research Organisation hVIVO. Additionally, Richard is Financial Adviser at Novumgen, a privately owned Specialty Pharmaceuticals company, and NED at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. His prior executive roles include highly successful tenures as Chief Financial Officer at FTSE150 animal health company Dechra Pharmaceuticals plc, and as Chief Financial Officer at medical device and drug formulation business Consort Medical plc. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Mr Cotton holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies from Kingston University.

Steve Banks

Vice Chair and Non-Executive Director

Steve was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in December 2021. He has been a Non-Executive Director at the Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust for six years, ending in January 2022, and was previously a Governor at that Trust. His previous posts include Director of Professional Standards and Superintendent Pharmacist, IT Director, and a Director of HR all at Boots UK. Steve’s first degree was in Pharmacy and he has since completed an MBA at Nottingham University. He has lived in Nottinghamshire with his family for nearly 30 years. Steve became the Trust's Vice Chair in June 2025, taking over from Barbara Brady.