NHS Partner Network board meetings are held quarterly, and are normally followed by the Members Quarterly dinner. At this time full members are invited to send one senior representative to take part in the meetings and the dinner.
Ad hoc meetings for Board members only are called periodically throughout the year to discuss specific challenges or opportunities.
Read full details of in the NHS Partners Network Constitution.
Members' meetings:
Previous board meetings:
Board meetings 2009 - 2010
NHS Partners Network Annual General Meeting
The NHS Partners Network held its annual general meeting (AGM) on 19 April in London, for all NHSPN members.
2010
AGM 2010 Director's Report.
Minutes: AGM 2009.
NHSPN board members
David Worskett is director of the NHSPN. The network has an independent board elected by its members.
The NHSPN board is chaired by Jill Watts, Chief Executive, Ramsay Health Care UK.
Jill has over 30 years’ experience in healthcare. She grew up in London, where she began her healthcare career as a Registered Nurse and Midwife and she relocated to live in Australia in 1981. Jill’s qualifications include a Masters in Business Administration, post-graduate qualifications in Health Administration and Information Systems and she is a Wharton Fellow. Jill Watts moved to London to take on the role of Chief Executive Officer for Ramsay Health Care, UK in April 2008.
David Rose, Managing Director, Primecare Primary Care, is appointed as the NHSPN deputy chair.
David joined the Primecare team in September 2008, having been Chief Executive of Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust and more recently as Chief Executive of NHS Warwickshire. He has previously been a Strategic Health Authority Board member and leader of the national Coronary Heart Disease Collaborative.
The board is formed of the following NHSPN members who are responsible for driving forward the network work programme;
Andrew Gardner
Harmoni, Chief Executive
Bart Johnson
Assura Medical, Chief Executive
Fiona Calnan
UK Specialist Hospitals, Chief Executive
Geoff Benn
Care UK, Managing Director
Martin Wakeley
Circle, Director
Philip Whitecross
InHealth Ltd, Chief Executive
Ruth Poole
Healthcare at Home, Group Clinical Director
Stephen Collier
General Health Group, General Counsel