Board of Governors
Nuffield Health is managed by the Board of Governors, who are both directors of the company and the trustees of the charity. The board is responsible for setting strategy, ensuring that there are the necessary financial, human and physical assets to meet those strategic aims, monitoring the performance of the group, overseeing risk management, and setting the group's values.
The governors delegate day-to-day executive authority to the Group Chief Executive.
John Evans FRICS
John was elected the Honorary President of Nuffield Health in 2010, having been a member of Nuffield Health since 1983 and a Governor from 1988-2010. John was Chairman of the Trustees of the Nuffield Health Pension and Life Assurance Scheme from June 2001 to December 2011.
He is a consultant to and was previously senior partner in the firm of Beresford Adams Commercial (Chartered Surveyors). He is also a member of the Council of the University of Chester and is chairman of its Finance & General Purposes Committee. John lives in Cheshire and has a long association with the Nuffield Health Grosvenor Hospital in Chester.
Members of the Board of Governors are:
Russell Hardy
Russell was appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors on 20th June 2012. After starting his career as a business economist for Unilever and then moving into strategy and planning consultancy at Deloitte Haskins & Sells, Russell moved into retail management in order to put the theory into practice. Initially he joined Kingfisher, where he held a number of roles including Deputy Finance Director for Comet and was involved in its M+A team before joining the Board of Safeway as Fresh Food Director. At Safeway he played a key part in the turnaround of the business, which led to an invitation to run Dollond and Aitchison opticians, ultimately taking that business through to a sale. Following that he joined Blacks Leisure Group as CEO leading that business for three years.
Russell is currently Chairman of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital; Hunters Moor Neuro Rehabilitation Limited and the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. He is also a Trustee of the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum.
Jane Wesson
Jane is the Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors having joined the Board on 1 April 2005. She is also the Chair of the Board Integrated Governance Committee, a member of the Executive Remuneration Committee and the Nominations Committee. A solicitor, she is a Trustee of Age UK and an Independent Assessor for Public Appointments. Previous positions include Chair of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence and Chair of National Clinical Assessment Authority. She has been a non-executive director of Pontefract Health Authority and Wakefield Health Authority and was a founding Trustee of the Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Trust.
Guy McCracken LVO
Guy became a Governor of Nuffield Health in January 2010 and is a member of the Board Integrated Governance Committee and the Executive Remuneration Committee. Following a degree in Food Technology from Reading University the majority of Guy's career has been in food retailing. He was a plc Board Director and Joint Managing Director of Marks & Spencer plc after which he was Chairman of Duchy Originals Ltd. Most recently Guy was Chief Executive of Food Retail of The Co-operative Group where he led the transformation of the business culminating in the acquisition of Somerfield.
He is currently a member of the DEFRA Council of Food Policy Advisors. Previously Guy has held non-executive directorships with TSB plc and Glisten plc and Board positions with not-for-profit organisations including the University of Westminster, Bradfield College and CORDA, the heart charity.
Fiona Driscoll
Fiona became a Governor of Nuffield Health in January 2010. She is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Executive Remuneration Committee. She began her career in management consultancy focusing on economics, marketing and communications with a number of different agencies before becoming a highly successful Managing Director for The Rowland Company, a Saatchi & Saatchi subsidiary and then CEO at Ogilvy, Adams and Rinehart, again leading the organisation through a major turnaround.
Fiona then worked in private consultancy before joining the Defence Evaluation Research Agency working on the development of the business model prior to privatisation. She was then appointed Strategy Director for Hedra Plc, a public sector consultancy. More recently Fiona has held a number of non-executive directorships for organisations including the Horse Race Totaliser Board (The Tote) Altala Group Ltd and Thomson Intermedia Plc. She also works in an advisory capacity for a number of Government initiatives.
Joanne Shaw
Joanne joined the Board of Governors in July 2011. She is now a member of Nuffield Health’s Board Integrated Governance Committee. Joanne is also Chair of NHS Direct, which provides remote and health advice and information services via phone, web and mobile channels, to patients and the public in England. She is also Chairman of Datapharm, a leading provider of digital medicines information to the NHS, the pharmaceutical industry, patients and the public. She was recently appointed as a Non Executive Governor of Nuffield Health and sits on the board of the Money Advice Service and she is a director of the British Board of Film Classification.
Joanne has a strong interest in the use of new communication channels for health and medicines. In her professional roles and in her writing for health publications she is known for advocating partnership between patients and health professionals and supporting people to make better informed choices about their health.
After serving on the management board of the Audit Commission, she became Director of Medicines Partnership, a Department of Health initiative to improve the use of medicines in the NHS. She previously worked internationally as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, advising large global companies on strategy, and implementing major change programmes.