Organisation structure

Last updated: Monday 28 September 2026

This page provides information on the structure or our organisation and the responsibilities of the directorates within our organisation.

If you require more details on our leadership and structures please email ncm.corporategovernance@nhs.net

Trust Board

Our Trust Board is made up of 6 voting and 2 non-voting executive directors plus 7 non-executive directors (including the chair).

View the details of all Trust Board members.

Executive Team portfolios

Nikhil Khashu
Chief executive

John Culshaw
Company secretary

Jane Hurst
Chief finance officer

Portfolio

Management accounts
Financial services
Financial planning
Contracts, performance and commercial development
Clinical coding and service development
Supplies and procurement
Informatics and business intelligence
Estates and facilities

Alison Kennah
Chief nurse

Portfolio

Professional leadership for nurses, midwives and AHPs
Clinical governance
Regulatory compliance
Infection prevention and control
Patient safety
Patient experience
Clinical education
Safeguarding
Maternity and children's
Safety champion
Palliative care

Dan Moore
Chief operating officer and deputy chief executive

Portfolio

Planned care
Unplanned care
Clinical support services
EPRR
Transformation

Dr Paul Fitzsimmons
Executive medical director

Portfolio

Professional leadership for doctors, digital services, dentists and physician associates
Patient safety
Clinical effectiveness and productivity
Learning from deaths
Medicines management
Appraisal and revalidation
Medical education
Clinical research
Quality academy

Paula Woods
Chief people officer

Portfolio

Human resources
Recruitment
Payroll
Pensions
Workforce intelligence
Occupational health and wellbeing
Staff engagement
Organisational development
Learning and development

Lucy Gardner
Chief strategy and partnerships officer

Portfolio

Strategy development and delivery
New hospitals
Town deals - community health hubs
ICS and place developments
Local health and wellbeing strategy
Anchor programme
Partnerships and collaboration
Urgent and emergency care system improvement
Integration

Kate Henry
Director of communications and engagement

Portfolio

Internal and external communications
Media relations
Community and stakeholder engagement
WHH charity fundraising

Trust operations

Dan Moore
Chief operating officer and deputy chief executive

Zoe Harris
Director of operations and performance and deputy chief operating officer

Care groups and clinical business units (CBUs)

Dan Moore
Chief operating officer and deputy chief executive

Zoe Harris
Director of operations and performance and deputy chief operating officer

Planned Care Group

Tom Glover
Associate director

Digestive Diseases

Matthew Wood
Clinical director

Melanie Alsop
Clinical business manager

Lucy Parry
Lead nurse

Clinical services

Gastroenterology
General surgery
Upper gastro-intestinal surgery
Colorectal surgery
Endoscopy
Anaesthetics
Liaison pain management
Pre-operative assessment
Ward A4
Ward A5 Gastro
Ward A5 Elective
Ward B4
Planned Investigations Unit
Theatres
Post- Anaesthesia Care Unit
CT room

Dr Anna Vondy
Associate medical director

Surgical Specialities

Ramandeep Chalokia
Clinical director

Ceri Rogers

Sheila Fields-Delaney
Clinical business manager trauma and orthopaedics surgical specialities

Carol McEvoy
Lead nurse

Clinical services

Gastroenterology
Trauma and Orthopaedics
Ophthalmology
Urology
Ear Nose and Throat surgery
Audiology
Maxillofacial surgery
Orthodontics
Ward A6
Ward B3
Captain Sir Tom Moore Ward

Lucy Parry
Interim associate chief nurse

Women's and Children's Health

Dr Satish Hulikere
Clinical director

Sharon Martlow
Clinical business manager

Tina Moors
Interim director of midwifery

Kath Watkins
Lead nurse women and children's and gynaecology

Clinical services

Midwifery
Obstetrics
Gynaecology / Assessment Unit
Colposcopy
Paediatrics
Neonatology
Antenatal Day Unit
Antenatal Clinic
The Nest / Birth Suite
Ward C23
Ward C20
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Wards B10 and B11
Children and Young People's Outpatients

Unplanned Care Group

Sharon Kilkenny
Associate director

Medical Care

Dr Laura Langton
Clinical director

Neil Gregory
Clinical business manager

Claudine Reynolds
Lead nurse

Clinical services

Critical care medicine
Cardiology
Respiratory medicine
Cardio-Respiratory
Investigations
Diabetes and endocrinology
Nephrology
Rheumatology
Neurology
Dermatology
Acute Care Team
Intensive Care Unit
Acute Cardiac Care Unit - Ward A3
Acute Respiratory Unit - Ward B18
Ward C21

Dr Mark Forrest
Associate medical director

Urgent and Emergency Care

Dr Saagar Patel
Associate clinical director

Laura James
Clinical business manager

Rachel Lutkevitch
Lead nurse

Clinical services

Emergency medicine
Acute medicine
Emergency Department
Same Day Emergency Care Unit
Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre
Acute Medical Unit - Ward A1
Ward A2
Patient flow team

Vacant
Associate chief nurse

Integrated Medicine and Community

Pradeep Magapu
Clinical director

Chris Barlow
Clinical business manager

Janet Pye
Lead nurse

Clinical services

General medicine
Care of the Elderly
Palliative care
Frailty Assessment Unit
Ward A7
Ward A8
Ward A9
Forget me Not Unit - Ward B12
Stroke Unit - Ward B14
Ward B19
Ward K25
Discharge Suite
Integrated discharge team

Clinical Support Services

Dr Alison Davis
Clinical director

Hilary Stennings
Associate director

Nicola Milkins
Matron

Paul Mooney
Chief pharmacist

Michelle Smith
Head of therapies

Mark Jones
Radiology services manager

Neil Gaskell
Pathology services manager

Lesley McKay
Associate director infection, prevention and control (IPC)

Clinical services

Haematology
Microbiology
Clinical chemistry
Histopathology
Imaging
Radiology
Breast screening
Infection prevention and control
Outpatients / medical records
Pharmacy
Therapies

Community and dental

Mel McLaughlin
Associate director

Karen Worthington

Sarah Valentine

Jillian Wallis

Barry Hutton

Clinical business unit managers

Clinical services

Children
Warrington adults
Halton adults
Dental

Nursing and clinical governance

Ali Kennah
Chief nurse

Tracy Fennell
Deputy chief nurse / director of clinical governance

Portfolio

Palliative care
Patient experience and volunteers
Chaplaincy
Military veterans
Complaints and Patient Advice Liaison Service (PALS)
Equality, diversity and inclusion (patients)
Infection control support
Bereavement services
Patient safety
Ward accreditation
Ward metrics
Clinical education
Medical devices
Medicines improvement
Nursing staff and workforce

Tina Moors
Interim director of midwifery

Kim Farrell
Interim deputy director of midwifery

Sam Emery
Matron

Kath Watkins
Lead nurse for paediatrics and gynaecology services

Joanne MacGlashan
Women's and children's matron

Michelle Smith
Lead AHP and head of therapies

Vacant
Associate chief of nursing - unplanned care

Rachel Lutkevitch
Urgent and emergency care lead nurse

Nichola Burns

Michelle Caterall

UEC matrons

Claudine Reynolds
Medical care – lead nurse

Sarah Hargadon

Clare Banks

Joanne Meredith

Jo Meek

Medical care matrons

Janet Pye
Integrated medicine lead nurse

Janet Rouse

Fiona Flack

Deborah Hammond

Katie Nixon
IMC matrons

Emma Hackett
Associate chief of nursing - corporate nursing

Vanessa Wallace

Emma Ryan
Patient safety nurse

Heather Aston
Tissue viability

Lucy Parry
Interim associate chief nurse - planned care

Carol McEvoy
Surgical specialities lead nurse

Natalie Slater / Sara Nowell-Vaughan
Surgical specialities matrons

Lucy Parry
Digestive diseases lead nurse

Nathan Taylor-Thompson

Rachel Baxter

Digestive diseases matrons

Simon Jesson
Chief nursing and information officer and head of digital care

Nisha Agarwal
Lead nurse for staffing and workforce improvement

Susan Dean
Deputy head of patient experience and inclusion

Lesley McKay
Associate chief nurse for infection prevention and control (IPC) and associate director of IPC

Nicola Milkins
Lead nurse clinical support services

Katie Clarke
Lead nurse safeguarding adults / children mental health and learning disability

Vacant
Deputy director of clinical governance

Portfolio

Clinical governance
CQC compliance
Health and safety risk management
Audit
Legal services
Quality academy
Safeguarding mental health and learning disability

Medical cabinet

Dr Paul Fitzsimmons
Executive medical director and chief clinical information officer

Dr Paula Chattington
Director of medical education

Anne Robinson
Responsible officer

Dr Thara Raj
Director of population health and inequalities

Dr Eshita Hasan
Deputy medical director

Dr Alison Davis
Clinical director
Clinical support services

Dr Mark Forrest
Associate medical director - unplanned care group

Dr Laura Langton
Clinical director - medical care

Dr Pradeep Magapu
Clinical director - integration medicine and community

Mr Saagar Patel
Associate clinical directors urgent and emergency care

Dr Anna Vondy
Associate medical director - planned care group

Dr Raman Chalokia
Clinical director - surgical specialities

Dr Matthew Wood
Clinical director - digestive diseases

Dr Satish Hulikere
Clinical director - women's and children's

Portfolio associate medical directors

Dr Lalitha Chinnappan
Associate medical director for patient safety

Portfolio

VTE
Medicines governance
Infection control / Sepsis / UTI
CQUINS
Discharge
Communication
Diagnostic testing policy
Incident investigation
Patient safety specialist
Mortality, learning from deaths
Serious incidents

Mr Mithun Murthy
Associate medical director for clinical effectiveness

Dr Tim Furniss
Deputy AMD for CE-research and development

Vacant
Deputy AMD for CE-procedural safety

Portfolio

Clinical audit and improvement
NICE
LocSSIPs
Consent
Research
7 day services
Trust wide trauma group
Cancer

Dr Hilary Furniss

Associate medical director – medical appraisal and revalidation

Portfolio

Medical appraisal standards
Responsible Officer (RO)
Documentation and reporting
Support for doctors
Revalidation
Support and professional development for doctors

Simon Jesson
Chief nursing information officer and head of digital care

Dr Rita Arya
Associate chief clinical information officer – women’s and children’s health

Dr Damian Stansfield
Associate chief clinical information officer – medical specialties

Dr Phyu Wai
Associate chief clinical information officer – medical specialties

Mr Gareth Stables
Associate chief clinical information officer – surgical specialties

VACANT
Associate chief clinical information officer – surgical specialties

Portfolio

Clinical information

Finance

Jane Hurst
Chief finance officer

Rachel Hurst
Deputy director of finance (community and dental)

Alison Jordan
Associate director of information

Chris White
Head of digital analytics

Portfolio

Business intelligence
Statutory reporting
Governance of data quality
Digital analysis
Data warehouse
Enterprise solutions

Anita Buckley
Head of information (community)

Portfolio

Business intelligence
Statutory reporting
Data quality
Digital analytics
Workforce information
Data warehouse

Janet Parker
Deputy / chief finance officer

Alice Forkgen
Associate director of finance - operations

Heather Farrington
Head of financial planning and contracts

Portfolio

Financial planning
Clinical income
PLICS / benchmarking
Service line reporting
Overseas patients
Private patients
Strategic business cases
Reference costs
Contracts and SLAs
Charitable funds
Internal monthly reporting

Paul Brereton
Head of clinical coding and service development

Portfolio

Clinical coding
Service development
Internal / external training
Internal / external audit
Clinical engagement
Quality improvement

Claire Leather
Head of improvement performance and commercial development

Portfolio

CIP / GIRFT
Improvement business cases bids and tenders
Benefits realisation
Commercial development
Performance assurance framework
Use of resources
Finance systems
Internal monthly reporting

Alice Forkgen
Associate director of finance - operations

Gareth Pugh
Assistant director of finance (community and dental)

Portfolio

Budget setting
Budget management
Forecasting
Costings and financial information
Corporate benchmarking
Service improvement
Internal monthly reporting

Karen Spencer
Head of financial services

Portfolio

Financial accounting
External financial reporting
Treasury management
Cash flow / cash and general office
Internal / external Audit
Annual accounts
Accounts payable / receivable
Counter fraud
Capital accounting
Internal monthly reporting

Paul Foster
Deputy associate director of procurement

Portfolio

Tendering and commercial contracts
Order processing
Stores receipt and distribution
Materials management
Workflow
Procurement services to Bridgewater Community

People

Paula Woods
Chief people officer

Adam Harrison-Moran
Deputy chief people officer

Strategic resourcing and employment services

Carl Roberts
Associate chief people officer

Gemma Leach
Head of strategic resourcing

Kathryn Sharkey
Head of workforce

Caroline Eardley
Head of occupational health and wellbeing

Louise Rylett
Head of payroll, workforce systems and information

Human resources (HR) and organisational development (OD)

Laura Hilton
Associate chief people officer

Jo Pickstock
Head of HR and organisational development

Tania Strong
Head of HR - community and dental

Mike Grogan
Staff side chair

Lynn Mannion
Deputy staff side chair

Education and professional development

Deb Mallett
Associate chief people officer

Kate Davidson
Medical education manager

Sonia Davis
Head of CPD

Sarah Sumner
Head of resuscitation services

Anthony Muldowney
Learning and development manager

Adie Richards
Education and professional development lead

Strategic workforce development and culture

Catherine Timmons
People promise manager

Carl Dixon
Head of leadership and organisational development

Joanne Drewett
Culture and engagement manager

Ruth Besford
Equality and inclusion manager

Digital services

Dr Paul Fitzsimmons
Executive medical director and chief clinical information officer

VACANT
Chief information officer (SIRO)

Sue Caisley
Deputy chief information officer

Stephen Deacon
Head of digital compliance

Portfolio

Information governance
Cyber security
Digital compliance

Emma O’Brien
Head of digital programmes

Portfolio

Project managers / product specialists
Training team / administrator
RA (Smartcards)
Optimisation
Release management

Tracie Waterfield
Head of IT services

Portfolio

Infrastructure / desktop
Management / service delivery

Simon Jesson
Chief nursing information officer

Portfolio

Digital care (clinical informatics)
Clinical safety

Dave Smith
Assistant director for digital services community and dental

Portfolio

Project managers / product specialists
Training team / administrator
RA (Smartcards)
Optimisation
Release management
Infrastructure / desktop management / service delivery
Cyber security

Strategy and Partnerships

Lucy Gardner
Chief strategy and partnerships officer

Hayley Heard
Deputy director of strategy and partnerships

Portfolio

Integration
Overall strategy development and delivery
New Hospitals
Anchor programme, including Green Plan
Clinical strategy development
Acute collaboration
Population health and reducing health inequalities
Shared Prosperity Fund
C&M Pathology Collaboration
C&M relationships and ICS development
UEC system improvement
Warrington and Halton integration
Wider determinants of Health Halton

Carl Mackie
Strategic programmes manager

Portfolio

Integration
Overall strategy development and delivery
Runcorn Town Deal - Health and Education Hub
Shopping City development
Halton Levelling Up
One Public Estate
Halton Place Development
Health and wellbeing strategy delivery
Halton relationships
Warrington Place estates
Strategic capital projects

Steve Bennett
Head of strategy and partnerships

Portfolio

Integration
Overall strategy development and delivery
Warrington Town Deal - Living Well Hub
Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC)
Warrington Place development
Health and wellbeing strategy delivery
Warrington relationships
Warrington Virtual Hub

Communications and Engagement

Kate Henry
Director of communications and engagement

Hayley Smith
Deputy director of communications and engagement

Alison Aspinall
Head of communications and engagement

Portfolio

Media management and crisis communications
Internal communications
External communications / campaigns
Patient information
Digital communications / accessibility / advertising
Branding, photography and design
Compliance and operational communications / management
WHH Charity
Internal awards and events

Mike Baker
Head of communications and engagement

Portfolio

Strategic projects
Capital development
Stakeholder and community engagement
Working with people and communities
Strategic campaign development
Post integration transformation
Brand reputation management
Regional developments / partnerships
Commercial opps / sponsorship
National awards and events

Helen Higginson
Head of fundraising

Portfolio

Income generation
Community engagement
Corporate partnerships legacy and in memory management
Grants, institutes and foundations
Staff charity involvement ambassadors
Capital campaigns, gaming and trading patient funded projects / impact
Staff funded projects / impact

Council of Governors

As a Foundation Trust we have a Council of Governors which includes the Trust's chair, public governors elected by members, staff governors elected by staff and partner governors.

Visit the Council of Governors page to see governor details.