Members of the Board of Governors

Dr Natalie-Jane Macdonald - Chairman

Appointed Chair in 2020, Natalie-Jane joined the Nuffield Health Board of Trustees in February 2017, bringing her extensive experience in healthcare and related services. She is Chair of Voyage Care and a Non-Executive Director of Riverstone Living and Pets at Home plc. She has previously served as a Non-Executive Director of Which?, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Private Health Information Network (PHIN).

Her early career began as a hospital physician in the NHS, and a clinical lecturer, and she later held leadership roles at the BMA, as Managing Director of Bupa in the UK, CEO of Acorn Care and Education, and CEO of Sunrise Senior Living. She was awarded an MBE for services to healthcare.


Dr Junaid Bajwa

Junaid has more than 15 years’ experience working across primary and secondary care, and public healthcare settings, in addition to acting as a policymaker within the UK, specialising in informatics, digital transformation and leadership.

He has also acted as a consultant for healthcare systems across the globe. Junaid is a practising NHS physician, with experience of serving a deprived London community, and is Chief Medical Scientist at Microsoft Research. In 2018, he was appointed Non-Executive Director, University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.


Patrick Figgis

Patrick has had a wide-ranging executive career. He has advised the boards of complex UK private and public sector entities on how to achieve transformation and growth, including leading and growing purpose-led and values-driven businesses across the UK and globally.

He was also a Senior Partner at PwC, where he led its Global Health practice; is a former Chair of Bowel Cancer UK; and has supported several charities during his career. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Trust.


Tracey Killen

Tracey joined the Nuffield Health Board of Directors in July 2023. She brings a wealth of non-executive experience. She is Trustee of Dorset and Somerset air ambulance service and a Fellow of Be the Business, and a Non-Executive Director of Morgan Sindall Group, the leading construction and regeneration business where she also Chairs the remuneration committee.

Prior to this, she was Executive Director of People for the John Lewis Partnership where she was accountable for shaping and delivering a distinctive and competitive employment proposition for 92,000 Partners.


Steve Maslin

Steve has 40 years’ experience in finance, auditing, policy, and risk and regulation within the public, private and charity sectors. He was formerly an audit and transaction services partner for Grant Thornton, specialising in listed and large private (LLP) businesses operating in multiple countries. From 2008 to 2016, Steve was Chair of Grant Thornton UK’s LLP Partnership Oversight Board and, from 1999 to 2006, was Head of Assurance Services.

He is a Risk and Audit Committee member of the Royal Collection Trust, Independent Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Public Interest Committee of Crowe UK LLP, and the Director and Chair of the Risk and Audit Committees for the Gurkha Museum.


Elizabeth Robb OBE

Elizabeth has wide-ranging clinical experience through a career spent mostly as a nurse and midwife in the NHS. This included 17 years as Director of Nursing, Deputy Chief Executive, and Acting CEO in two NHS Trusts, in Somerset and London.

For seven years, Elizabeth was CEO of the Florence Nightingale Foundation, where she focused on improving health, clinical outcomes and patient experience through research and leadership capability. In 2015, she was awarded an OBE for services to nursing and midwifery. She is currently a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Somerset Care Limited, a social care provider.


Lee Rochford

Lee joined the Board in 2023 as a Non-Executive Director, and immediately took on the role of Chair of the Finance and Investment Committee. He has spent over 30 years in financial services, most recently as CEO at Arrow Global plc, a listed integrated asset manager that Lee took through both a strategic and cultural transformation before taking the business private.

Prior to that, Lee was CFO at Virgin Money, playing an instrumental role in taking the business public, as well as working at a variety of international banks advising financial services businesses on their balance sheet management and funding strategies.


Mark Stansfeld

Mark has over 30 years’ experience in the telecoms and digital economy, driving innovation and encouraging the adoption of new technologies. Mark has worked with businesses such as giffgaff, a unique community-led mobile operator, as well as being a member of the board that led O2 to UK market leadership.

He currently chairs the Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport’s (DCMS) largest 5G trial testbed, aimed at driving forward 5G technologies in health, manufacturing and transport. He is a Non-Executive Director for Quickline, a broadband provider addressing the digital divide for rural communities.


Karen Whitworth

Karen joined the Nuffield Health Board in 2023, bringing significant operational and board level retail, strategic and financial experience. In her professional career Karen has held a number of senior leadership roles, including with PwC, Intercontinental Hotel Group PLC, and J Sainsbury’s PLC, where she was a member of the Commercial Board and Director of Non-Food Grocery and New Business.

She brings a breadth of experience across all aspects of logistics and supply chain management, technology implementation and the operation and development of e-commerce channels.