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Appointments for the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Four non-executive directors of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement have been announced by the NHS Appointments Commission.
The NHS Institute, which was launched as a Special Health Authority on 1 July 2005, has been set up to improve care offered to patients, by encouraging and bringing together service transformation, technology and product innovation, leadership development and learning throughout the whole of the NHS. The NHS Institute will use its expertise in these fields to focus on a small number of big priorities at any one time. The initial priorities for the NHS Institute will include reducing MRSA and healthcare associated infection; working towards achieving the 18-week waiting target; improving productivity in the NHS and looking at innovation in care outside hospitals and long term conditions.
With effect from July 2005, the Chair and non-executive directors of the Board are:
- Dame Yve Buckland (Chair of the Board) – Chair Designate for the National Consumer Council for Water (Defra) and former Chair of the Health Development Agency (DH 2000-2005) following her Chairmanship at the Health Education Authority since 1997. Yve was also until recently Vice-Chair of the South Warwickshire Primary Care Trust.
- David Bower – Director of his own consultancy providing HR and executive coaching services to all business sectors. Mr Bower is a Principal Fellow of Warwick University and a non-executive director of Atmaana Ltd., a specialist business consultancy. Prior to this Mr Bower was Group Personnel Director and a board member of Rover Group Limited (1991-1999) responsible for all aspects of HR world-wide.
- Professor Tony Butterworth CBE – Director of the Centre for Clinical and Academic Workforce Innovation, University of Lincoln. Professor Butterworth is a registered general and mental health nurse with extensive executive experience in the NHS and higher education. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, the Academy of Medical Sciences and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Prior to his current appointment Professor Butterworth was Chief Executive of Trent Workforce Development Confederation.
- Mike Deegan CBE - Chief Executive of Central Manchester & Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust. Mr Deegan is currently a member of the National Leadership Network and chairs its programme of work on local hospitals. Throughout 2003/04 he chaired the Modernisation Agency Steering Group on behalf of the National Modernisation Board. Prior to his current appointment, he was Chief Executive of North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust and led the merger of Warrington and Halton Hospitals.
- Dennis Sherwood - one of the country’s leading experts on organisational creativity and innovation and now runs his own business, The Silver Bullet Machine Manufacturing Company Limited. For 12 years, Dennis was a consulting partner with Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, and Coopers & Lybrand, and subsequently an Executive Director with Goldman Sachs, a partner with Bossard Consultants, and the Managing Director in the UK of SRI Consulting.
Two further Non-Executive Director appointments will be made over the next few weeks.
The non-executive Directors will be joined on the Board by a team of five Executive Directors, led by Chief Executive, Professor Bernard Crump. The Executive Directors will take each take responsibility for one of the NHS Institute’s specialist areas of service transformation, technological and product innovation, leadership development, learning and business and financial processes.
The Directors are:
- Professor Helen Bevan - Director of Service Transformation. Formerly Interim Director of the NHS Modernisation Agency, Professor Bevan is a leader of healthcare improvement movement at a national and international level. Previously, she established a number of major national improvement programmes including the National Booking Programme, the Cancer Services Collaborative and the CHD Collaborative. She is currently Co-Chair of the European Health Improvement Forum.
- Dr Maire Smith - Technological and Product Innovation. Prior to taking up this new role, Dr Smith has been Director of Intellectual Property within the Department of Health, with overall responsibility for the intellectual property and oversight of the activities of the NHS Innovation Hubs. Before joining the Department of Health, she was Chief Executive of Manchester Innovation Ltd., a commercial exploitation campany owned by Manchester University. Dr Smith has extensive background in global licensing, business development and scientific research largely gained in leading pharmaceutical companies.
- Paul Allen - Director of Leadership Development (from September 2005). Currently Organisation Development Director for Diageo, where he has led major change projects across the business, and helped to build capability in leading and managing change. Prior to this Mr Allen was Group Management Development Director for Reckitt & Colman. In this role he provided leadership development support for the transformation of the organisation into a global business, operating in over 120 countries.
The process for the recruitment of a Director of Learning and a Director of Business and Financial Processes is still underway.
Welcoming the appointments, the Chief Executive of the NHS Institute, Professor Bernard Crump said:
“I am delighted to see such a strong team of executive and non-executive directors leading the development of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. This high-calibre team brings a diverse and in-depth range of experience in many areas which are of great relevance to our work. I am looking forward to working with all directors to influence and deliver the NHS Institute’s ambitious aims, ideas and practices for the improvement of services to both patients and NHS staff.”