Trust Board

The Trust Board is the organisation’s governing body. It comprises the Chairman, Non-Executive Directors, the Chief Executive and Executive Directors (senior staff of the hospital). Collectively they take corporate responsibility for the strategic development and actions of the organisation. Profiles of each member can be found below, together with links to organisation structure charts and summaries of the minutes from board meetings.

• Trust Board Structure
• Trust Executive Structure
• Summaries of Board Meeting Minutes
• Board Register of Interests
  

Board Profiles:

Chairman

Robin SeQueira CBE
Former Director of Social Services for Dorset between 1983 and 1997. Former President of the Association of Directors of Social Services in 1995. Trustee of the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust. Provides management consultancy services in social and health care.

Vice Chairman & Senior Independent Director

Jeffrey Ellwood
Retired following a long career in marketing chemicals and pharmaceuticals and several years as a company chief executive. Also a local magistrate and chairman of the council of Brunel University.

Chief Executive

Jan Bergman
Has worked in both public and private sectors and has spent most of his working life in senior positions in healthcare management. First Chief Executive in the country to take two hospitals to Foundation Trust status.

Non–Executive Director

Christopher Spry CBE
Director of a management consultancy. Was an NHS manager for 34 years and latterly the Chief Executive of the Greater Glasgow Health Board.

Non–Executive Director

Roderick Knight
Retired senior manager with Dorset Social Services, formerly Dorset's Community Care Manager. Has been a member of the Professional Executive Committee of local Primary Care Trusts.

Non–Executive Director

Peta Turnbull
A commercial finance director who has held senior positions with major UK and US companies. Has worked across Europe as well as North and South America. Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, BA (Hons) Durham University.

Non-Executive Director

Peter Knell
Currently a Major in the Army. Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Substantial experience of organisational development and assessing financial risk within large organisations.

Acting Director of Finance - Kevin Goater

Medical Director

Dr Andrew Webb
Appointed to Dorset County Hospital as a Consultant specialising in elderly care in 1986. Previously Medical Director of the West Dorset Community Trust from 1990 to 1994. Chair of Medical Staff Committee, 1998 - 2003. Clinical Governance directorate lead, 1995 - 2004.

Director of Nursing

Alison Tong
Experience across a variety of acute sector providers, leadership and development programme expertise. First level registered nurse, specialist qualification in orthopaedics, BSc (Hons) in Health Studies, qualified Neuro-Linguistic Practitioner.

Director of Operations

Sally Brown
Extensive operational management experience in the community and acute setting. Has been a company director for a number of businesses, establishing a profitable food manufacturing plant, supplying a number of leading supermarket chains.

Director of Business Development

Jean George
30 years' experience of working within the healthcare sector in both the UK and Europe. Initially spent 16 years within the commercial healthcare sector in marketing, sales and product development. Her NHS career has spanned 14 years within the community, acute and primary care settings at board level, including six years as a Deputy Chief Executive. Has also held a number of Executive Director positions including Director of Operations, Business Development & Marketing and Income & Information, and ran a £100m PFI project, successfully taking the project from Strategic Outline Case to Preferred Bidder.

Other Attendees at Board Meetings:

Director of Organisational Development

Nigel Crainey
16 years' internal and external HR/OD and business consulting experience at senior levels. Demonstrable track record of managing complex systemic organisational change. Commercial acumen with a clear grasp of political sensitivities. Proven people development skills and an empathetic coaching style that confronts issues not people.

Head of Corporate Affairs - Suzanne Slight

Board Secretary - Annaliese Wykes