Our board members’ register of interests

NHS England is committed to openness and transparency in its work and decision making. As part of that commitment, we maintain and publish this Register of Interests which draws together Declarations of Interest made by members of the Board of Directors. In addition, at the commencement of each Board meeting, members of the Board are required to declare any interests.

Penny Dash, Chair

  • Member of council – Institute for Fiscal Studies
  • Co-Chair, Cambridge Health Network
  • Advisor, Inhealth Ventures
  • Fellow – Royal College of Physicians
  • Shareholding, International Airlines Group, Medishout, Edyn, PDX, ZeroRISC, Clinova, Serac life sciences, Tesco, Sainsbury, Legal and General, AMD, RELX, Vanguard ETF, Vina Capital Fund
  • Investments, OION, QANTX, ISA, SIPP, VCTs – all held by third parties

Sir Andrew Morris, Deputy Chair

  • Non-Executive Director – University Hospitals, Birmingham
  • Family member employed by NHS England 02/2015
  • Spouse Trustee of charity – New College Worcester and Trustee of charity – Building Circles
  • Chair of the Disability Initiative (charity based in Camberley)
  • Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

Mark Bailie, Non-Executive Director

  • Shareholdings through externally managed investment fund
  • Chief Executive, BGL Group Ltd
  • Shareholding, BGL Group Ltd
  • Shareholding, NatWest Group
  • Holding of index linked bonds, NS&I
  • Shareholdings through externally managed investment fund:
    • HCA Healthcare
    • Mettler-Toledo
    • Intuitive Surgical
    • Thermo-Fisher

Jeremy Townsend, Non-Executive Director

  • Trustee, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Trustee, MCC Foundation
  • Shareholder in various companies
  • Various members of the family work for NHS England
  • Family member Trustee of St Christophers – Charity
  • Family members studying medicine

Professor Sir Robert Lechler, Non-Executive Director

  • Board member and minor shareholder, Quell Therapeutics
  • Chair of MiNA Therapeutics
  • Associate Director, Alumni Global
  • Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists
  • Honorary Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society
  • Consultant for JIA Investments

David Bennett, Non-Executive Director

  • Non-Executive Chair, Synnovis LLP
  • Investments, two EIS funds
  • Investments, number of funds which invest in shareholdings of various companies
  • Shareholdings, two banks and one telecoms company

Louise Ansari, Non-Executive Director

  • Family member shareholdings, Astra Zeneca
  • Interim Non-Executive Director at Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust

Paul Corrigan, Non-Executive Director

  • Investment Portfolio
  • Stocks and shares, ISA, National Westminster
  • Family member, currently taking the Labour whip in the House of Lords
  • Family member, Chair of the independent commission on neighbourhoods set up by Local Trust and chair of the DSIT Committee to improve digital inclusion

Professor Sir Sam Everington, Non-Executive Director

  • GP, Bromley by Bow Partnership
  • Associate Director, NHSR
  • Honorary Vice President of the BMA
  • Member, MDDUS
  • Member, Royal College of GPs Council
  • Member, Council of the Imperial Society of Knights Batchelor
  • Fellow and Professor, Queen Mary University of London
  • Patron, National Academy of Social Prescribing
  • Vice President, The Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing
  • Co-Chair and Council Member, College of Medicine
  • Provost, Royal College of GPs Council
  • Albert medal winner and life member of the RSA
  • Trustee, Anglo-Norse Society
  • Family member, GP partner, Bromley By Bow Health Partnership
  • Chair of the College of Medicine Trustees (charity)
  • Trustee of Stanton Guildhouse arts and crafts charity in the Cotswolds
  • Volunteer at Bromley by Bow Centre (charity)

Ravi Gurumurthy, Non-Executive Director

  • Group Chief Executive Officer, NESTA
  • BIT, conducts research projects and bids for funding with NHS England
  • Nesta Impacts Investments, holds stakes in Health companies
  • Board Member, Project Everyone
  • Lead Non-Executive Board Member (NEBM), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
  • Family member, employed as a Radiologist at West Middlesex Hospital and an independent contractor with Everlight Radiology.
  • Family member, Founder of Draft Writers
  • Family member, presenter with Channel 4 News
  • Family member, BBC news presenter

Sir James Mackey, Chief Executive Officer

  • Family member is a lawyer at DAC Beachcroft

Duncan Burton, Chief Nursing Officer

  • Member of the Royal College of Nursing
  • Trustee of the Princess Alice Hospice, Esher

Sarah-Jane Marsh, NHS England Chief Operating Officer/Urgent and Emergency Care and Operations Director

  • Family member is Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
  • Family member is Chair of Dudley NHS Foundation Trust
  • Family member is Chair of Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
  • Family member is Chair of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Meghana Pandit, Deputy Chief Executive Officer

  • Chief Executive Officer, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Honorary Professor, Warwick Medical School, Warwick University
  • Supernumerary Fellow, Exeter College Oxford
  • Family member is:
    • Professor of Anaesthetics, Oxford University
    • Consultant Anaesthetist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,
    • Editor-in-Chief Anaesthesia Analgesia,
    • Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford
    • Director JJ Pandit Ltd

Claire Fuller, National Medical Director

  • Visiting Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Surrey University
  • Intergenerational Music Making: Trustee
  • Lifelong Widow’s Pension, Pfizer
  • Member of the Medical Defence Union
  • Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners

Elizabeth O’Mahony, DG Finance

  • Nil to declare

Paul Dinkin, Director General, Strategy and Healthcare Policy

  • Investments in blended diversified funds

Professor Glen Burley, Deputy Chief Executive Officer/Interim DG for System and Development

  • Membership of Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
  • CEO South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust
  • CEO Wye Valley NHS Trust
  • CEO George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
  • CEO Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Honorary Professor, Warwick University Medical School

Rob Thompson, Chief Digital, Data and Technology Officer

  • Trustee of the British Computer Society (Charity)

Frankie Swords, National Medical Director

  • Honorary Professor to Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia
  • Honorary Consultant Physician, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Foundation Trust
  • Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, London
  • Family member is psychotherapeutic counsellor
  • Family member studying medicine
  • Family member working as resident doctor

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