Chairman:

• David Arr

Directors:

• Chris Bown, Chief Executive
• Roy Bannon, Medical Director
• Linda Potter, Director of Finance and Information
• Nichole Day, Director of Nursing and Service Improvement
• Jan Bloomfield, Director of Personnel and Communications
• Gwen Nuttall, Director of Operations

Clinical Directors:

• Pamela Chrispin & Dermot O'Riordan, Surgical Services
• Anne Nicolson, Medicine
• Dr Elizabeth Wright, Support Services
• Michelle Judd, Women and Child Health Services

Non-executive Directors:

• Mary Jones
• John Cullum
• Professor Peter Richards
• Jane Golding
• James Greenwood

Pen portraits of individual Directors and Non-executive Directors can be found on the page Members of the Board.

The Board’s role can be characterised as five P’s:

• Planning (where we are going, what shall we do?)
• Performance (how are we doing?)
• People (having the right people in place to implement the Board’s policies and deliver services)
• Pounds and Pence (keeping the money under control)
• Patients (are we delivering services at the right time, place and quality?)

The Board meets monthly - see Trust Board Meetings.

Additional information:

Remuneration Committee Membership of the committee comprises: the Chairman and the Non-executive Directors.

Audit Committee Membership of the committee comprises: Colin Hilder as Chairman, Mary Jones and John Cullum. Linda Potter attends with external and internal auditors. The Trust Chairman and Chief Executive are occasionally in attendance.

Register of Director’s Interests Mary Jones is a Regional Trainer, CRUSE Bereavement Care UK and Director of the National Association of Complaints Personnel. John Cullum is a Suffolk Board Member of the National Probation Service and Director of Bury St Edmunds Golf Club Ltd. Professor Peter Richards is Chairman of the Professional Conduct Committee, GMC. Colin Hilder holds directorships with Bearwell Systems Ltd, Brautek Ltd and Sensortek Ltd and is a Governor of Culford School (charitable trust). Jan Bloomfield is a Board Governor at West Suffolk College.