Board Members
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Experience: Stuart brings considerable private sector business experience to the Board of Directors, in particular in the areas of estates and construction. He progressed from graduate trainee in the food division, through a number of middle and senior management roles, to Technical Director on the Operations Board of the distribution business of Christian Salvesen Ltd; a business operating across mainland Europe and with a turnover in 1992 of £450m. Stuart was responsible for all technical and estate issues including construction, maintenance, transport, safety, industrial engineering, environment, business rates, leases, and land and building acquisition. He led a staff of around 100 specialists with a revenue budget of £40m+ and a capital budget of around £50m. Leaving in 1993, he set up his own project management consultancy business specialising in complex, highly automated distribution facilities typically costing in the order of £40m. He is currently working part-time on various construction projects across the country.
Stuart lives in Market Bosworth and until recently he was a Governor of Bosworth College in Desford – a 14 to 19 year old college with around 1,200 students – after serving 14 years, 9 of which as Chair.
He was also Chair of Directors of ‘Apex’, a charity supporting ex offenders and other members of the community disadvantaged in the workplace back into work through support, guidance and education.
Qualifications:
BSc Mechanical Engineering
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Chief Executive Experience: · Kevin was previously Chief Executive at Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust and has more than 25 years experience working across the NHS in a range of roles and organisations, including Director of Finance and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to his role as Chief Executive at Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT, Kevin was Director of Commissioning and Performance at NHS North Lancashire and Chief Operating Officer/Acting Chief Executive at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay.
CIPFA qualified (Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy), he took up his first Finance Director post in 1997 at Southport Community Trust and subsequently worked at North Sefton and West Lancashire Community and Ashworth Special Hospital.
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 Chris Bradshaw,Director of Finance & Performance
Experience:
Chris is a Chartered Management Accountant and joined the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in December 2006.
His NHS career began in 1993 when he was appointed Director of Finance and Contracting for Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust where he was part of the management team responsible for the relocation of the hospital in 1998.
His most recent appointment was as Director of Finance, ICT and Performance for Sandwell PCTs where he was also the Public Sector Director for Sandwell LIFT Company – a joint venture with the private sector, which he led to financial close in 2004.
Prior to joining the NHS he worked in industry for Automotive Products plc and Smiths Group plc and as a management consultant for Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte where major clients included Rolls Royce, Guinness, Hawker Siddeley and the Bank of England.
Qualifications:
BA (Econ) Accounting & Business; ACMA; MCMI
Responsibilities:
Financial management and control; Performance management; Information and Communications Technology; Purchasing and materials management; Deputy Chief Executive
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 Andrew Arnold,Medical Director
Experience:
Mr Arnold, who was born in Nuneaton, joined the Trust from Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital where he worked as Consultant Urologist, a role he also carries out at the George Eliot. He also has senior management experience as a Divisional Director for five years at University Hospital Birmingham and a strong track record in improving patient safety.
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 Heather Norgrove,Commercial Director
Experience:
Heather Norgrove has worked in Primary Care for 25 years as a General Practice/Fund holding Manager. She was a PCG Chief Executive in North Warwickshire, and Director of Strategy and Commissioning for both North Warwickshire PCT and Hinckley and Bosworth PCT.
She has also led for the South West Leicestershire area on practice based commissioning and GP contracting and has gained considerable experience working with PBC groups.
Heather sees her new role at GEH as a great opportunity to work across the whole health economy to improve services for patients through PBC and the development and delivery of services that meet the needs of local patients.
Her role at GEH includes liaison between practices and the Trust, to resolve problems regarding delivery of service and Trust behaviour with primary care colleagues and to work with all external stakeholders to enable us to deliver services in the most appropriate setting.
Qualifications:
MBA; MSc in Primary Health Care Studies by research working across organisational boundaries
Responsibilities:
Clinical Advisory and Business Development Group
Executive Lead for FT, Contractual relationships with the PCT, development of care pathways with all stakeholders, business development of Trust
Executive Lead for: Sexual Health, CVD and Cancer
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Director of Operations
Experience: Kath joined George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust from Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust in July 2010 where she worked for 14 years, most recently as Director of Operations. Following her graduation from the Welsh National School of Medicine, Kath has gained experience of working across the north-west of England and the West Midlands in a wide range of medical and surgical specialties. Her time at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust allowed Kath to hone her management skills working across a multi-site, complex Acute Trust. This included a series of change programmes culminating in the successful pursuit of Foundation Trust status. Kath prides herself on doing the 'right thing' for patients and staff and subscribes to a 'can do' style of leadership. She has a passion for driving improvements in the experiences of both patients and staff and is committed to the development of others.
She takes great pride in developing and coaching clinical and management teams to achieve outstanding and sustainable improvements for patients.
Qualifications:
Bachelor of Nursing and RN -1986
Diploma in management studies (DMS) - 1999
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) practitioner and coach - 2007/09
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Director of Nursing, Quality and Workforce Experience:
Dawn trained at East Birmingham School of Nursing and qualified as a Registered General Nurse in July 1985.
Her clinical experiences included Renal, Gastroenterology and Acute Medicine. The majority of her career has been spent at Heart of England Foundation Trust (formerly Heartlands Hospital) where her last post was as Matron for Elderly Medicine.
In 1996 she achieved her Masters in Business Administration and went on to attend the Kings Fund Leadership Course in 1999.
Dawn joined George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in March 2003 as Deputy Director of Nursing.
More recently she has been leading the Trust on its Patient Safety Agenda alongside Dr Gordon Wood. She has recently attended the IHI Patient Safety programme in Boston, USA sponsored by the Institute for Innovation and Improvement and is currently a Fellow of the Improvement Faculty at the Institute for Improvement and Innovation.
Qualifications:
MBA
RGN
Responsibilities:
Nursing and Midwifery Professional i.e. quality of care
Manual Handling Team
Pre registration Non Medical Professional Education
Service Improvement
Tissue Viability Service
Adult Protection
Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs
Nursing & Midwifery Temporary Staffing Trust Lead
Joint Patient Safety Lead with Associate Medical Director
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 Malcolm Dade,Non Executive Director
Experience:
Malcolm Dade brings considerable business expertise and experience to the Trust Board, in particular in the commercial and marketing areas. He is a retired Managing Director of a medium sized specialist engineering company in Nottingham. He has held a number of other director level roles particularly in project sales and management.
Malcolm qualified as an Applied Physicist at Bradford University (BTech (Hons)) and is a Chartered Engineer (CEng). He now runs his own consultancy company, working in project-related marketing, tendering and negotiations.
Malcolm has substantial experience in sales and marketing of project-related work and has significant contracts worldwide in excess of £1m in value.
Qualifications:
BTec (Hons) Applied Physics; CEng
Responsibilities:
Chair of Charitable Funds Committee
Member of Remuneration and Appointments, Audit and Risk Committees
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 Rupert Herd,Non Executive Director
Experience:
Rupert Herd has considerable experience of governance, quality assurance and financial management within the public sector. He retired in 2005 after 13 years as Principal and CEO at Tamworth and Lichfield College, a further education college with 10,000+ full and part-time students. He managed the process of incorporation (ending LEA control) in 1993 and oversaw substantial growth, lifting the budget from £3.5m to £16m and planned major building programmes, including a new campus at Lichfield in partnership with Staffordshire University. Three full Ofsted inspections saw quality rating improve from average to high performing college. He is also a member of a small housing-related charity.
Qualifications:
BA (Hons) Philosophy
Responsibilities:
Member of Remuneration and Appointments, Audit, Risk and Charitable Funds Committees
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 Chris Bain,Non-Executive Director
Experience:
Chris has a great deal of experience in both the health service and the public sector. Prior to joining the Trust Chris was Chair of the North Warwickshire Primary Care Trust from 2002-2006 and is currently Chair of the Independent Review Panel for NHS West Midlands.
Prior to this Chris, who lives in Water Orton, has 25 years experience working in the voluntary sector, the last 12 years of which were working for Age Concern.
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Don Navarro, Non-executive Director
