Tony Barron
Chairman

A civil engineer by background, Tony is also a fully qualified fixed wing and helicopter pilot. His interest in aviation stems from his teenage years when he won an RAF flying scholarship on leaving school in Sandbach. He went on to have a highly successful business career, spending five years as Managing Director of the Seymour Group of construction and engineering companies and working as an industry trouble shooter in Africa and the Middle East for an American group of companies. He also has a long history in local politics, health, local government and charitable sector having stood as a UK and European parliamentary candidate for the Liberal Democrats. His health background stretches back to the mid 1980s and is extensive, having served as Non-Executive Chairman of Hampshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, a Non-Executive Director of the former Basingstoke District Health Authority and Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority and was also a member of a local Community Health Council. He has also served as a Hampshire County Councillor, Chairing the Education Committee, and chaired a number of charitable trusts.

Ed Macalister-Smith
NHS Executive Coach and Interim CEO at NHS Wiltshire and NHS BaNES PCTs

Ed joined NHS Wiltshire & NHS BaNES PCT as interim CEO in January 2012. In addition to leading NHS Wiltshire & NHS BaNES through to April 2013 when commissioning services are handed to Clinical Commissioning Groups, Ed is currently the Chair of the Education and Training Change Process at South Central Strategic Health Authority, whilst also providing executive coaching support to emerging leaders.

He started his NHS career in Bath and in Wiltshire fifteen years ago. Since then he has been Chief Executive at NHS Isle of Wight and at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in Oxford.  He was chief executive of NHS Buckinghamshire until 2011, when it merged with NHS Oxfordshire as part of the government’s reorganisation of the NHS in England. Most recently he has led reviews for clinical networks and major trauma across South Central Strategic Health Authority. His early training was in Environmental Sciences at Wye College, London University, followed by an MSc in Forestry from Oxford.

Christine Reid

Christine joined Wiltshire PCT from Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, where she was Chair for nine years. A former secondary school teacher, Christine has a strong background in the public and voluntary sectors.

She is one of the leading members of the Rural Commission of the Local Government Association, and also has wide experience in working with disadvantaged groups.

She is a councillor on North Wiltshire District Council, and holds a ministerial appointment on the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency.

David Stevens

David is a Member of the Institute of Management and of the Institute of Fund Raising Managers. Formally Area Director West for Nationwide Building Society, David is a Business Development Consultant and has served as a magistrate for over 10 years.

David has considerable experience as a non-executive director of NHS organisations with a particular interest in performance; effectiveness of delivery matched to local needs and the strategic planning that underpins the leads the operational activity. As a non-executive director of Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority he chaired the Audit and Risk Management Committee and was a member of the Clinical Governance Committee. He was previously an associate non-executive director of East Wiltshire Healthcare Community Trust and also a Mental Health Act Manager.

David has been involved commercially with the voluntary sector for many years, as the Group Community Affairs manager for Nationwide Building Society where he implemented a new community involvement strategy and more recently as Deputy Controller SSAFA Forces Help which is closely involved in the support and training of volunteers to support ex-service personnel.

John Holden

John was previously a non- executive board member and audit committee member with the Identity and Passport Agency and, until recently, with the Criminal Records Bureau. He is a member the Audit Committee of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. John spent 29 years working in the oil and natural gas industry with BP, where he was ultimately responsible for a pan-European manufacturing-to-marketing business. John achieved a second career ambition of a significant public sector challenge by joining the Civil Service in April 1996 as Chief Executive of Companies House, a DTI Executive Agency and Trading Fund. He led the Agency over two three-year terms to much better performance and service delivery while driving a programme aimed at transforming its activities to electronic technology and thus becoming a leading exemplar of e-Government.

Elizabeth Woods

Elisabeth and her husband James came to live in Salisbury in 1998, after her retirement from the Board of Customs and Excise, where she was Director, Operations. Before that she held senior posts in what are now the Department of Health, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Treasury.

Lis is a former member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and of the former South Wiltshire Primary Care Trust. She is a volunteer adviser at Salisbury Citizens Advice Bureau and a member of several other local organisations in Salisbury.

Peter Lucas

Peter is a retired senior business executive with a background in international and investment banking, and engineering. He was previously Chair of the Audit Committee for Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority, and worked closely with its officers to ensure strong financial performance in the health economy. Peter is a school governor and parish councillor and lives in Donhead St Mary in south-west Wiltshire.

Jennifer Howells
Director of Finance

Jenny was appointed Finance Director to the new NHS Wiltshire and NHS Bath and North East Somerset cluster in June 2011.

Jenny started her career with Arthur Andersen, London in 1991 and progressed within the firm to become Audit Manager at the Reading branch. A move to Cleveland, Ohio with Pricewaterhouse Coopers in 1998 saw Jenny take on the role as a Transaction Services Director until 2001 focusing on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Jenny devoted the next two years to raising her two daughters taking a career break whilst living in Paris. On her return from overseas, Jenny became the Finance and Administration Director for Taw Hill Medical Practice in Swindon on a one year contract to support the high-profile medical practice during its final year in receipt of national funding as an NHS pilot site. In 2004 Jenny became the Head of Business Planning for Royal United Hospital in Bath and 2007 became Acting Director of Finance and in the same year was appointed the Director of Finance and Commercial Development for the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre.

Dr Stephen Rowlands
Medical Director

Steve Rowlands has been a GP in Trowbridge since 1985 following his return from the Solomon islands in the South Pacific where he first got involved with public health and medical politics. He has been involved in medical management in this country since the days of the FHSA, originally sitting on the 'medical service committee' and has always had an interest in quality.

He has worked for the PCG and latterly PCT as a PEC and board member and clinical governance lead. He has worked as appraisal lead for Wiltshire and instigated the current appraisal system in Wiltshire. Stephen is very keen to support the transition from PCT to clinical commissioning as smoothly as possible and sees success in his current role as being measured by working himself out of a job by April 2013. He will act as Responsible Officer until the transition in April 2013.

Dr Richard Wharton
Medical Director

Richard Wharton has been a GP in Bath at Newbridge surgery since 1984. Special interests include minor surgery, training and education, and drug addiction. He has been involved in GP education in various roles since 1993, and was GP tutor from 1998 to 2008. Since 2008 he has worked at Severn Deanery as an educationalist specialising in GP Education, Appraisal and Revalidation. He has worked with the South West SHA and English Revalidation support team nationally and regionally supporting the introduction of 5 yearly Revalidation checks for doctors. He will be working as part of an integrated directorial team in B&NES and Wiltshire working towards a smooth handover to CCGs in 2013. He will take the role of Responsible Officer overseeing the medical workforce in the B&NES area until 2013.

Maggie Rae
Joint Director of Public Health at Wiltshire PCT and Wiltshire County Council

Maggie Rae took up the position as the first jointly appointed Director of Public Health in Wiltshire in December 2007. Reporting to Wiltshire PCT and Wiltshire County Council, Maggie provides the strategic direction for the delivery of a wide ranging agenda of work, with the overall aims of improving health and reducing inequalities. This is undertaken under the broad headings of improving health, protecting health and improving health services. Recent successes have included the publication of the first Wiltshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, publication of the Wiltshire Health Inequalities Strategy and agreement of key health targets in the Wiltshire Local Area Agreement.

Maggie has extensive experience of the Public Sector, having spent her career working in a variety of departments including Health, Local Government, Education and Social Services. Her previous roles have included Head of Health Inequalities and Head of Local Delivery at the Department of Health, and Director of the nine English Regions of the Health Development Agency.

She is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. She is also a standing member of the Royal College of General Practice Health Inequalities Group. In addition, Maggie is the Faculty of Public Health local representative for the South West.

Suzanne Tewkesbury
Director of Human Resources, Communications and Corporate Affairs

In January 2007 Suzanne Tewkesbury joined Wiltshire Primary Care Trust as Director of Human Resources having previously worked for the Strategic Health Authority, the Great Western Ambulance Services and Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust. Prior to moving to the NHS in 1995 Suzanne worked for the THORN EMI group in their rental division for 13 years.

She started her career in human resource management in 1989 as a Personal Assistant and following a great opportunity for development gained her professional qualification in 1993, she is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development and in 2002 gained a Master of Arts in Human Resource Management. During her career Suzanne has been involved in all aspects of human resource management and has a particular interest in the management of change, equality and diversity, employee relations and improving the reputation of NHS Wiltshire as a leading local employer.

Suzanne is married to Paul and they have two children, Sophie and Adam, she is a Governor at a local Catholic primary school and is a keen gardener.

Mary Monnington
Director of Nursing and Patient Safety

Mary qualified as a nurse in 1972 and has worked in a range of nursing posts including Night Sister, Ward Sister, Specialist Nurse for Infection Control, Clinical Teacher, Senior Clinical Nurse in Surgery and Tutor to the Staff Nurse Development Programme.

In 1978 she migrated to Australia to work at the Alfred Hospital, undertaking a joint appointment in Orthopaedics and Education.

Mary returned to the UK to undertake an Economics degree from the London School of Economics and in 1986 Mary completed a Masters Degree in Nursing at King’s College, London.

Mary moved into general management from 1987 at Princess Margaret Hospital Swindon, Wessex Regional Health Authority and Dorset Health Commission. Mary returned to a senior nursing post as Director of Nursing and Performance Management at Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust in 1994.

In 2001, Mary began working for South Somerset Primary Care Trust and latterly for NHS Somerset as Director of Nursing. In September 2011, Mary commenced a long term secondment as Cluster Director of Nursing for Bath and North East Somerset and Wiltshire PCTs and is involved in the transitional process leading up to their dissolution in March 2013.

Within this role she also holds the position of Caldicott Guardian and is the Chair of the Exceptional Treatments Committee. Mary has responsibility for patient safety, Infection, Prevention and Control Quality Standards, Continuing Health Care, Nursing and Professional Practice and is a visiting Reader at Bournemouth University.

Christina Button
Director of Commissioning Development

Christina was appointed to the post of joint Director of Commissioning Development in September 2011.  Christina has a number of years’ experience working in the NHS and has previously worked with NHS Wiltshire and Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.  Prior to joining the NHS, Christina worked in consultancy services with Inventures (project management and health care planning) and Ove Arup and Partners (chartered mechanical engineer)