SHROPSHIRE GP - Key Persons


Alison Smith

Job Titles:
  • Chief Business Officer

Andy Begley

Job Titles:
  • Local Authority Member and Chief Executive / Shropshire Council
An accomplished leader within local government, Andy has enjoyed over 25 years of success, across both the public and private sector. From strategic planning and policy setting, to operational delivery as both provider or commissioner, he understands the landscape of the public sector, the mechanics of local government, and the nuances of system-wide design and delivery.

Angela Szabo - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance

Claire Parker

Job Titles:
  • Director of Strategy and Development

Claire Skidmore - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Finance Officer

David Sidaway

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive of Telford & Wrekin Council
  • Local Authority Member and Chief Executive / Telford and Wrekin Council
David has been the Chief Executive of Telford & Wrekin Council since the beginning of 2020. He is immensely proud to work in the borough where he grew up, as he also began his career here, originally working for Wrekin District Council.

Dr Deborah Shepherd

Job Titles:
  • Primary Care Member and GP in Shropshire

Dr Ian Chan

Job Titles:
  • Primary Care Member and GP in Telford and Wrekin
Dr Ian Chan is a highly experienced healthcare professional, who has worked across the UK and has been with Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS for more than two years. Providing strategic oversight on specific ICS initiatives, he helps to ensure that the right projects are commissioned and implemented efficiently, to best serve the needs of patients in the local area.

Dr Julie Garside

Job Titles:
  • Director of Planning, Performance, BI and Analytics

Dr Lorna Clarson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Medical Officer

Dr Niti Pall

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
Niti has been a practicing clinician for 30 years and was a GP Partner at Smethwick Medical Centre from 1992 until 2013. She has also held numerous appointments as a Director, Chair and Board Member over the last 20 years. She is currently a Global Medical Director for KPMG (since January 2016), as well as being a Non-Executive Director of Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital (since August 2019).

Ian Bett

Job Titles:
  • Chief Delivery Officer

Jo Williams

Job Titles:
  • NHS Trust Member and Chief Executive / Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Meredith Vivian

Job Titles:
  • Non - Executive Director
After career success in publishing and the voluntary sector, Meredith joined the Department of Health as a policy maker. Here he led a variety of national initiatives including tackling prescription fraud, tobacco education, mental health and the criminal justice system, and headed up an NHS-wide staff engagement programme. Meredith was responsible for a range of policies giving patients and the public a greater voice including the creation of PALS, Healthwatch, reform of the health and care complaints procedure, independent complaints advocacy, local authority health scrutiny and the duties to involve and consult patients and the public. A stronger voice for people and communities has been the major theme of his work since the mid-1990s. During this time Meredith ran advocacy projects and became a non-executive director of two national voluntary sector bodies responsible for promoting and championing the rights of marginalised people. Since 2017 Meredith has been able to bring much of his experience to the fore in the role of Lay Member of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group. He is also the Chair of the Strettons Mayfair Trust which provides wellbeing services in South Shropshire. In 2006 Meredith was awarded an OBE for ‘Services to Patient and Public Involvement'.

Neil Carr

Job Titles:
  • Trust Member and Chief Executive / Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Neil has worked in Staffordshire since 1996 and joined the Trust at its inception in 2001 successfully leading the Trust as its Chief Executive Officer since 2007.  Neil originally trained as a nurse in the North East of England and principally worked as a practitioner in general hospitals working in liaison mental health.  He has spent his career championing improvements in mental health and learning disability services and is committed to multi-disciplinary/multi agency working.

Nigel Lee - Chief Strategy Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Strategy Officer

Patricia Davies

Job Titles:
  • Trust Member and Chief Executive / Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Patricia took up the post of Chief Executive for Shropshire Community Trust in April 2021. Originally from Wolverhampton, she trained as a nurse in South Wales after graduating from Cardiff University. She then returned to the Midlands to begin her career as a district nurse in Shropshire. Patricia has both an academic and HR background and is still a registered and a practicing clinician. Prior to taking up the post as Chief Exec, Patricia worked in London and the Southeast for 23 years in senior Executive roles in the acute and community sector. In the 9 years preceding the move back to Shropshire, Patricia held the post of Accountable Officer for CCGs in North Kent and, most recently, in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes, where she has led a system transformation programme and successfully brought together the three clinical commissioning groups. Patricia is keen to look at how the Trust can build on the effective services that are already in place across its adult and children's teams with a particular focus on how we can deliver more integrated services with communities and ICS partners. By doing so, continue the Trusts track record as a high performing and forward-thinking organisation.

Roger Dunshea - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Acting Chair
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Non - Executive Director of the Shropshire
Roger was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care System in March 2022. Roger is a chartered public finance accountant and former member of the Senior Civil Service. He was director of finance and operations at Ofwat, the economic regulator of the water sector in England and Wales for over fifteen years. Previously he held clinical, operational management and executive director roles in the NHS.

Simon Whitehouse - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive
  • Chief Executive Officer

Stacey Keegan

Job Titles:
  • RJAH As Interim Director of Nursing
  • Trust Member and Chief Executive / Robert Jones Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital
Stacey joined RJAH as Interim Director of Nursing in November 2019, before becoming substantive Chief Nurse and Patient Safety Officer in March 2020. From March - October 2020, Stacey was Interim Chief Executive, before returning to the Chief Nurse and Patient Safety Officer role. In August 2021, Stacey was appointed the Trust's Interim Chief Executive.

Vanessa Whatley

Job Titles:
  • Chief Nursing Officer