Meet the team
Diabetes team
Dr Paul Mackenzie, Head of Clinical Programmes
Email: paul.mackenzie@nhs.net
Paul has experience in commissioning, clinical care, inequalities and cancer and at the Academic Health Science Network specialising in Patient Safety.
He has developed expertise in various clinical areas utilising project and programme management skills. Paul is passionate about reducing health inequalities and involving patients in improvement work and has developed and implemented a number of health care strategies across the region. He has an academic background and expertise in the area of cancer prevention. He also has a strong clinical background in nursing, having worked in a variety of health care sectors including Hospice Care, District Nursing, Macmillan Nursing, Secondary Care and Tertiary Care as well as the third sector.
Mike Mayers, Senior Programme Manager (Diabetes)
Email: mike.mayers1@nhs.net
Prior to joining the Clinical Network as a programme and assurance manager, Mike worked in the NHS for several years in a variety of transformation and redesign roles, improving quality and ways of working including consulting on transformation of mental health services, senior commissioning manager for the North West CSU where he worked on a broad range of improvement projects and reviews for CCGs and providers across Greater Manchester. He was also head of business processes at Stockport CCG where he was involved in redesigning and improving pathways and patient journeys.
Before working in the NHS, Mike worked in industry, including several years in business analysis and improvement in the pharmaceutical sector, and various operations and procurement roles for manufacturing and service organisations.
John Lee, Clinical Network Programme Manager (Diabetes)
Email: john.lee@nhs.net
As Clinical Network Programme Manager for Diabetes, John leads on the Assurance and Delivery of the National Diabetes Treatment and Care Programme and the National Diabetes Prevention Programme across both Cheshire and Merseyside and Lancashire and South Cumbria. He is also responsible for the development of the Project Management Office (PMO) and Data Dashboard.
John joined the NHS in 2011 and has worked in various Project Management, Quality Assurance, Quality Improvement and Data Analysis roles for NHS England, Public Health England and NHS Ashton, Leigh & Wigan PCT. These roles have predominantly been in the areas of Maternity, Child Health, Infectious Disease and Diabetes.
John is qualified in PRINCE2 Project Management, graduated with a BA(hons) in Business & Psychology in 2008 and a PgCert in Computer Science in 2016.
Pierce Rodway – Clinical Network Coordinator
Email: Pierce.rodway@nhs.net
Before joining the Diabetes team , Pierce was a Cardiac Network Project Manager for both Lancashire and South Cumbria and Cheshire and Merseyside working primarily on projects relating to Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation as well as providing support to the CVD Prevention programme. Pierce has also supported system redesign as well as transformation programmes to improve patient pathways.
Pierce was a Clinical Network Manager for Mental Health, Self-Harm, Depression, Dual Diagnosis & Suicide Prevention in the North West Coast Clinical Network. Pierce’s background is primarily in providing administrative services and implementing systems within Medicine in an Acute Trust. Pierce was also a Faculty Administrator for Health Education England. Pierce has been an employee of the NHS for over 10 years.
Pierce’s outside interests include music, motorsport and looking after my 2 cats and dogs
Clinical leads
Dr. Surya Rajeev – Clinical lead for Cheshire & Merseyside
Surya is a Consultant Physician and Clinical Director (Aintree site)- Diabetes and Endocrinology at Liverpool University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Diabetes UK Clinical Champion.
Dr. Cathy Hay – Clinical lead for Lancashire & South Cumbria
Cathy is a Consultant Diabetologist at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust and chairs the Lancashire and South Cumbria Diabetes Steering Group.