CfWI Governance Board

Biographies of the chief executive, director of commissioning and Governance Board, with personal video introductions and details on how we are governed.

Peter Sharp is Chief Executive for the CfWI.

Peter is a chartered psychologist and chartered scientist and has over 30 years' experience in health, education and children’s services. He has extensive consulting experience at chief executive and director levels within health and local authorities. In partnership with the Department of Health (DH) and the Department for Children, Schools and Families, he successfully led the Mouchel team responsible for Healthy Schools.

He has also worked with the executive team of a newly created Council on Leadership Development and Workforce Planning.

Transcript of Peter Sharp's video introduction

Professor Moira Livingston is the Director of Commissioning for the CfWI.

Moira's previous roles include 24 years' experience in the NHS as a consultant in older age psychiatry, as postgraduate dean and most recently as Director of Workforce at the North East SHA. Involved at a national level in policy development, including Modernising Medical Careers, Modernising Scientific Careers, developing and launching the 14-19 Diploma, and as chair of the UK-wide Extending Professional Regulation Working Group, Moira is committed to a whole-system approach to workforce planning across health and social care.

The CfWI governance board

The Governance Board operates at a policy level and provides strategic oversight of the CfWI. The Board comprises the Chair, two Vice Chairs and members from the following areas:

• medical
• learning
• nursing
• client
• social care
• foresight and knowledge.

Board members will be invited to serve for two years, renewable up to five years. To ensure that all Board members are not renewed simultaneously, members may be asked to consider renewing their membership for a further six to twelve months, on a rolling basis.

With the Chair's general guidance and direction, the Board’s remit is to oversee the development of the strategic plan for the CfWI, updated annually by the Business Plan.

The terms of reference for the Board are reviewed annually in July.

The Governance Board is supported by an advisory panel, which provides advice to the Board on system needs. For further details see our section CfWI advisory panel.

Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, MD, FRCP, MACP, FMedSci, is Chair of our Governance Board.

Dame Carol is the UK National Director for Health and Work, Chair of the Nuffield Trust, Chair of the Governance Board of the new Centre for Workforce Intelligence, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Pro-Chancellor of the University of Bristol. She is a past President of the Royal College of Physicians, and has recently stepped down as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. The centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital, London is internationally renowned in the field of connective tissue diseases. Since the early 1990s she has worked at board level in a number of organisations, including the Royal Free Hospital Hampstead NHS Trust, the Health Foundation, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, and the Imperial College Healthcare Charity, and recently chaired the UK Health Honours Committee. She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, a member of the Committee for the Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service, and is on several national committees aiming to improve healthcare. She is a foreign affiliate of the U.S. Institute of Medicine and has been awarded many honorary degrees and fellowships.

Transcript of Dame Carol Black's video introduction

Roy Taylor CBE is Vice Chair of the Governance Board.

Roy is retired as England’s longest serving Director of Social Services in 2009. He was a president of the Association of Directors and led work on direct payments, mentoring of black and minority ethnic managers and on civil contingency. He was a National Director for Pandemic Flu and Social Care. He received a CBE for contributions to social services.

Transcript of Roy Taylor's video introduction

Sir Neil McKay CB is Vice Chair of the Governance Board.

Sir Neil has spent his entire career in the NHS, entering as a young trainee administrator in 1970. Since then he has operated at senior levels across the NHS around the country including Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive of the entire NHS. Over the last three years Sir Neil has been Chief Executive of NHS East of England.

Margaret Goose OBE (Board member) was Chief Executive of the Stroke Association and is a Governor of the Health Foundation and a lay member of the National Quality Board. She has been a lay member of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Chair of its Patient and Carer Involvement Steering Group. Her career has involved posts in both academic and NHS organisations including Head of the Health and Management Development Division at the Nuffield Institute for Health, University of Leeds, and Chief Executive of the North Bedfordshire Health Authority.

Professor Amanda Howe (Board member) practises at the Bowthorpe Medical Centre in Norwich and has been Professor of Primary Care at the University of East Anglia since 2001. She has a strong interest in promoting research in general practice (she chaired the RCGP Research Group for six years) and is also interested in medical education, primary care mental health and policy evaluation in primary care.

She has been a College member since 1983 and a Fellow since 1997. She became Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2009. As Honorary Secretary, Professor Howe has responsibility for governance of the RCGP and leads on all College consultations.

Dame Donna Kinnair (Board member) is Director of Nursing and Head of Commissioning at Southwark Health and Social Care. Previously, Strategic Commissioner for Children's Services for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority. She was also a child protection adviser with Community Health South London.

Transcript of Dame Donna Kinnair's video introduction

Professor Peter Kopelman (Board member) is the Principal of St George's, University of London. He was Vice-Principal, Queen Mary, University of London and Deputy Warden of the Medical and Dental School (2001-6) and Dean of the Faculty of Health, University of East Anglia (2006-8). He is Chair of UCEA Clinical Academic Staff Advisory Group and Deputy Chair of London Higher.

He has a long-standing interest in diabetes care, nutrition and obesity. He is a member of the UK Department of Health and Food Standards Agency Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, DH Expert Panel on Obesity and is Science Advisor to the Office of Science and Innovations Foresight Obesity Project.

Transcript of Professor Peter Kopelman's video introduction

Professor Michael Pidd is Head of the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University and is known for his work in modelling and analysis, most recently in healthcare systems improvement. He has served as President of the Operational Research Society, is a Companion of the Operational Research Society and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management. He is author of books on modelling, computer simulation and performance measurement.

Miles Scott is Chief Executive of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust in London. He was Chief Executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for six years, and Chief Executive of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust for four years. His NHS career has encompassed acute, community and mental health services, the King’s Fund and Trent Regional Office.