The Board steers us into an exciting future of innovation, while ensuring we deliver against the objectives licensed by NHS England. Our approach of close partnership working with our members - and the other elements of the NHS system - is underpinned by mutual Board representation. We are committed to joint decision making on 'who does what,' aligning resources, and undertaking joint work.
Download PDFOur senior leadership team brings a broad range of experience and skills to provide direction and oversight across our work. The executive team is accountable to our Board.
Fiona Driscoll
Chair
Fiona specialises in designing transformation strategies and operational plans to deliver success...
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Bill Gillespie
Chief Executive
Bill is an experienced health manager who had worked at board level in health organisations in th...
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Nicola Bent
Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Innovation Adoption
Nicola joined the AHSN in April 2020 from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (...
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Dave Meehan
Finance Lead
Dave has worked in the Wessex NHS health system for almost 40 years and held board positions for ...
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David Kryl
Director of Insight
Dr David Kryl is the Director of Insight at the Wessex AHSN and its Centre for Implementation Sci...
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Frank Ratcliff
Director of Industry and Innovation
After a PhD in the genetics at the Sainsbury Laboratory, Frank quickly moved into commercial rese...
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Sarah Turl
Associate Director - Operations
Sarah has over 30 years’ experience in a variety of management roles, operating across the public...
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Rachel Dominey
Associate Director - Primary Care Innovation
Rachel joined Wessex AHSN in 2014 leading the Respiratory Quality Improvement Programme to nation...
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Michael Goodeve
Associate Director - Communications
Michael has worked in public sector communications for over fifteen years, in a variety of local,...
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Alison Griffiths
Associate Director - Strategic Themes (Mental Health and Medicines Optimisation)
Alison has worked in healthcare for over 20 years in both the NHS and private arenas, beginning h...
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Joe Sladen
Associate Director - National Programmes
Joe leads the AHSN’s Nationally Prioritised Innovations programme – this programme aims to suppor...
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Kathy Wallis
Associate Director - Strategic Themes (Healthy Ageing and Patient Safety)
Kathy Wallis is Associate Director for Strategic Programmes (Healthy Ageing and Medicines Optimis...
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Our staff come from a diverse range of backgrounds, including academia, frontline health and social care, research, analytics and NHS support services.
Ruth Barker
Evaluation (Qualitative) Programme Co-ordinator
Ruth joined Wessex AHSN in April 2021. She has 10 years’ clinical experience working as a physiot...
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Sophie Barton
Evaluation Programme Analyst
Sophie joined the AHSN in May 2019 with 7 years’ experience of working in healthcare analytics. S...
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Heather Bowles
Programme Manager Innovation & Adoption
Heather Bowles is one of our Programme Managers currently working within the Medicines Optimisati...
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Sofia Calado
Programme Assistant - Industry & Innovation
Sofia joined the Wessex AHSN in March 2020 as a Programme Assistant for the Industry & Innovation...
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Jackie Chandler
Evaluation Programme Manager (Qualitative)
Jackie has a background in general and mental health nursing in both the NHS and voluntary sector...
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Geoff Cooper
Programme Manager & Improvement Coach
Geoff is a qualified nurse with a background in intensive care and coronary care nursing, special...
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Cheryl Davies
Programme Manager Healthy Ageing
Cheryl Davies has worked for the NHS for over 18 years. Her background is in statistics and has w...
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Linda du Preez
Programme Co-ordinator Healthy Ageing
Linda is a Programme Co-ordinator for Wessex AHSN within the Healthy Ageing workstream.
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Sally Forbes
Programme Lead Mental Health
Sally qualified as a general nurse in 2000 at the University of Leeds. Her nursing career focused...
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Charlotte Forder
Senior Communications and Strategy Manager
Charlotte is Communications Manager for Wessex Academic Health Science Network.
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Katherine Gale
Programme Co-ordinator Mental Health (currently on maternity leave)
Katherine is the Programme Coordinator for mental health. Katherine joined Wessex AHSN in Novembe...
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Kate Heard
Patient Safety Programme Co-ordinator
Kate is the Programme Co-ordinator for NHSEI Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme....
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Dr Robert Hull
Research and Innovation Associate
After working for a biotech start up, Robert gained a PhD in respiratory microbiology at the Univ...
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Sam Kehoe-Coulter
PA to CEO & Business Support
Sam is PA to the Chief Executive Officer and has over 15 years experience in a wide range of admi...
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Nadia Kuftinoff
Programme Co-ordinator - Innovation Adoption
Nadia began her career as a software development project manager in London. Her projects included...
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Lesley Mackenzie
Programme Manager
Lesley is the Workstream Lead for NHSEI Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme.
Sh...
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Kathleen McCulloch
Senior Communications Officer
Kathleen is the Senior Communications Officer at Wessex AHSN. She began her career in local gover...
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Caroline Norris
Wessex PSC Administrator
Caroline joined the Patient Safety Collaborative in April 2018 after 12 years’ experience in heal...
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Robert Payne
Innovation Adoption Programme Coordinator
Rob studied Ancient History at Swansea University and graduated in 1998.
He spent 4 years work...
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Nikki Perret-Green
Programme Manager - Patient Safety
Nikki is the Workstream Lead for the NHSEI Medicines Safety Improvement Programme. She is a regis...
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Peter Rhodes
Senior Programme Manager Industry & Innovation
Peter is Senior Programme Manager for Industry & Innovation. He joined WAHSN in 2018 after a 30-...
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Phoebe Sellence
Analyst and Evaluation Programme Co-ordinator
Phoebe joined Wessex AHSN in April 2021 with over five years’ experience working in local authori...
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Andrew Sibley
Evaluation Programme Manager
Andrew undertook his PhD at the Centre for Innovation and Leadership, Faculty of Health Sciences,...
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Heather Stacey
Patient Safety Collaborative Programme Manager and Q
Heather joined the Patient Safety Collaborative in February 2021 to support the Mental Health Saf...
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Paul Steynor
Programme Manager Industry & Innovation
Paul Steynor is the Programme Manager in the Industry and Innovation team
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Sarah Turtle
Primary Care Programme Manager
Sarah is one of our programme managers currently working within the Primary Care Programmes. She ...
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Suzi van Es
Innovation Adoption Programme & Medicines Optimisation (Local) Programme Manager
Suzi is an Innovation Adoption Programme Manager with a focus on the spread of nationally priorit...
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Anna Wykes
Programme Manager for Cancer Care
Anna initially joined the Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) in August 2019 as a programme...
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