The Board
Board meeting
The dates of the 2008 board meetings are:
- 18 November - Leeds
- 20 January 2009 - London
- 17 March 2009 - Leeds
- 19 May 2009 - London
- 28 July 2009 - Leeds
- 15 September 2009- London
- 17 November 2009 - Leeds
If you wish to attend please contact:
PA to ChairAppointments Commission
Blenheim House
Duncombe Street
Leeds
LS1 4PL
Tel: 0113 394 2965
boardmeetings@appointments.org.uk
Previous meetings
Previous board meetings and minutes.
Board members
Our board members and their contact details are as follows:
| Chair | Anne Watts CBE | 0113 394 2965 |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Executive | David Cain | 0113 394 2965 |
| Non-Executive | Betty Thayer | 0113 394 2965 |
| Non-Executive | Jill Robertson | 0113 394 2965 |
| Non-Executive | Margaret Scott | 0113 394 2965 |
| Chief Executive | Andrea Sutcliffe | 0113 394 6741 |
| Deputy Chief Executive / Director of Appointments | Janice Scanlan | 0113 394 6741 |
| Director of Training & Events | Chris Dye | 07766 368 898 |
| Head of Finance | Lynn Shadford | 0113 394 2953 |
Appointments Committee
The Commission has a committee, the Health and Social Care Appointments Committee, whose members are responsible for making appointments to NHS and Department of Health bodies. Commissioners who sit on this committee are appointed by the Secretary of State for Health and some of them also sit as non-executives on the Commission's main board.
Commissioners
| North East & Yorkshire and The Humber | Miranda Hughes | 0113 394 2962 |
|---|---|---|
| North West and West Midlands | Mike Taylor | 0113 394 2962 |
| London | Bob Nicholls | 0113 394 2962 |
| South West | Penny Bennett | 0113 394 2962 |
| South East Coast and South Central | Margaret Scott | 0113 394 2962 |
| East of England | Gareth Hadley | 0113 394 2962 |
Biographies
Anne Watts CBE
Anne Watts is chair of the Independent Panel on race equality for the NHS and a member of the School Teachers’ Review Body. She is also the employer's representative on the steering group for the new Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
A leading figure in diversity, recruitment and workplace development issues, with a strong track record across the private, public and voluntary sectors, Anne has had executive roles relating to diversity and workforce in Business in the Community, HSBC and Natwest Bank. She currently serves on the boards of Greater London Enterprise, Opportunity Now, Race for Opportunity and the Open University and was an Equal Opportunities Commissioner from 1989 to 1995. She currently holds no other Ministerial Appointments.
Ms Watts has declared that she has not undertaken any political activity in the last five years.
David Cain
David Cain was appointed as Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair in April 2007.
He is a chartered accountant and is currently a partner in his own consultancy firm, DAP Consulting; he was previously a partner at Deloitte and Touche. He has considerable practical experience in the Health Service having spent four years seconded into senior management positions with the acute and general sectors. He also spent five years as Vice Chairman at Forest Healthcare Trust, one of the largest NHS Trusts in North East London.
He has declared that he is not politically active.
Jill Robertson
Jill Robertson joined the board in October 2008. Until July 2008 she held a corporate role within the Barkers Norman Broadbent Group (BNB) as chief executive officer of three of the Group’s businesses – Hamlin Knight, Garfield Robbins and BNB Outsourced Solutions. Before joining BNB, she was Managing Director of Healthcare Recruitment for Select Plc for two years, building on her previous experience in such roles as Strategic Marketing Director at Adecco UK Ltd and Divisional Director at Reed Plc.
She has declared that she is not politically active.
Betty Thayer
Betty Thayer joined the board in October 2008. She is currently Deputy Chair of Exec-Appointments Ltd, a company she founded in 2001, before selling it to the Financial Times in 2007. She was Recruitment Industry Personality of the Year in 2006 and lectures internationally on the on-line recruitment industry. Her previous background was in strategic management consultancy, culminating in a role as consulting partner for Ernst & Young between 1997 and 1999. Prior to this she held a number of senior posts with Lex Service PLC, Andersen Consulting and Price Waterhouse. She is a visiting lecturer on the non-executive director programme at the Cranfield School of Management and a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Bath School of Management.
She has declared that she is not politically active.
South Central and South East Coast – Margaret Scott
Margaret Scott has been a non-executive of the Appointments Commission and Commissioner for South East Coast and South Central since April 2007 .
Before joining the NHS she worked in the IT industry. She was Chair of Hampshire Ambulance Service, Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust and East Hampshire Primary Care Trust between 1994 and 2006. She is currently Chair of Drum Housing Association and Chair and Vice Chair of Governors of schools in both the maintained and independent sectors.
She has declared that she is not politically active.
South West Region – Penny Bennett
Penny Bennett became a Regional Commissioner in 2003. She has a professional background as a solicitor in the private sector.
She was an NHS non-executive director for the East Gloucestershire NHS Trust (1994 - 1998) and then its chair (1998 – 2002). She was then appointed a non-executive for the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority and was vice chair (2002 – October 2003).
She is a group board member of the Hanover Housing Association where she is also chair of the Audit Committee. Penny is also an Independent Member of the Standards Committee for Cotswold District Council.
She has declared that she is not politically active.
East of England and East Midlands – Gareth Hadley
Gareth Hadley became a Regional Commissioner in April 2007.
Between 1999 and 2006, Gareth was HR Director of Her Majesty's Prison Service, HR adviser to the National Offender management Service, an executive member of the Prison Service Board, and a non-executive director of the sector skills council Skills for Justice. Before that, following an earlier career in London local government, he was Employee Relations Director of British Rail, HR Director for BR's North and West Passenger Operations, and a non-executive director of a number of BR companies including its engineering subsidiary British Rail Maintenance Limited, ScotRail, Great Western, and InterCity West Coast. He also chaired the British Transport Police Pension Fund and was the UK representative on the European Union's Comité Paritaire de Chemins de Fer.
As well as his Regional Commissioner duties, Gareth is a consultant specialising in employee relations and HR. He is also Visiting Fellow of Kingston University and a member of the CIPD Employee Relations Panel.
He has declared that he is not politically active.
North East & Yorkshire and The Humber Region - Miranda Hughes
Miranda Hughes is a chartered psychologist by profession and has held a range of public appointments in the education, health and criminal justice sectors. She holds a current appointment with the Judicial Appointments Commission as an Independent Chair for Judicial Appointments Panels. From April 2001 – April 2006 she served as the chair of the West Yorkshire Probation Board. She was the chair of Connexions West Yorkshire (2001-2003) and a non-executive director of Leeds Health Authority (1996-1999) and of Leeds East Primary Care Group (1999-2001). Miranda chaired the Appointments Commission’s Audit Committee until the end of March 2007.
Her professional career began as a lecturer in psychology at the University of Leeds . She moved into the private sector as the head of Research and Planning with Kidds Advertising and subsequently to KPMG as a management consultant before establishing her own consultancy company.
She has declared that she is not politically active.
London Region - Bob Nicholls CBE
Bob Nicholls has been deputy chair of the board since September 2007. He has 35 years’ experience in the NHS, working as a manager at hospital, district and regional levels.
He is a Fellow and past president of the Institute of Healthcare Management and was awarded the CBE for services to health care in 1995. From 1988 to 1993, he was the chief executive of Oxford Regional Health Authority and from 1993 to 1996 the executive director of the London Implementation Group and a member of the NHS Executive.
Since April 1996, Bob Nicholls has been an independent health sector consultant, both in the UK and overseas. He was a consultant adviser to the British Council and, until 2003, was the senior non-executive director of Nestor Healthcare plc. From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the National Clinical Assessment Authority.
Bob served as a lay member of the General Medical Council from 1996 until 2005, serving as chairman of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee and as a member of the Standards and Fitness to Practice Committees. He continues as a member of the Clinical Education Committee of Oxford Medical School.
He has declared that he is not politically active.
North West and West Midlands Region - Mike Taylor CBE TD DL
Mike Taylor became a Regional Commissioner in 2001. He is a former Audit Committee chair and chairs the National Training Group.
He had a management career with Shell in the UK and overseas from 1969 to 1991. He was: chief executive of the Management Charter Initiative then National Assessor and Chief External Verifier for Investors in People (IIP) until 2001; chairman of the National Artillery Association until 2003; chairman of the Council of Reserve Forces and Cadet Associations (and thus a member of the Land Command Board and its Audit Committee) until 2004 and vice chairman of West Cheshire College until 2004.
He is currently: chair of West Chester Regeneration Board (and on the Chester LSP); chair of Chester Aid to the Homeless (CATH); Honorary Colonel Commandant of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Cheshire.
He has declared that he is not politically active.