Mr Frank Collins

Chairman

Frank Collins was appointed as Chairman in February 2015.

Frank has extensive experience in healthcare leadership. He spent his early career in the NHS culminating in Chief Executive posts at Kettering General Hospital and Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Trust.  

Following this Frank moved into the private sector with Chief Executive posts at a private hospital; Hydron Ltd, (a manufacturer and supplier of contact lenses) and The Summit Medical Group (an international medical devices company), where he subsequently became Chairman.  

Frank currently serves as Non-Executive Director and Chairman to a range of healthcare related companies. He is also a trustee of a local charity.

Declaration of interest:

• Non-Executive Chairman and shareholder in Frontier Medical Group Limited (Companies House No. 08670394).
• Non-Executive Chairman of Bracebridge Corporate Finance Limited (Companies House No. 08875676).
• Non-Executive Chairman of JRI Orthopaedics Ltd.
• Member of the Advisory Board to Mercia Technologies.

Stacey Keegan

Chief Executive

Stacey joined RJAH in the position of Interim Director of Nursing in November 2019, before becoming Director of Nursing in March 2020. Her role changed to Chief Nursing and Patient Safety Officer in April 2020. In August 2021, Stacey was appointed the Trust's Interim Chief Executive. 

She arrived from the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham, where she most recently held the position of Deputy Director of Nursing and Clinical Governance.

A trauma and orthopaedic nurse by background, she has held various leadership and management roles including Matron and Divisional Head of Nursing positions.

Stacey has an MSc in Senior Healthcare Leadership and the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Award in Senior Healthcare leadership. She has experience and interest in nursing workforce redesign, recruitment and retention, and patient involvement.

Mr Harry Turner

Deputy Chairman and Non-Executive Director

Harry has extensive experience, having served as a Non-Executive Director and then Chairman of Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust between 2008 and 2016.

He also took up the position of Chairman of the John Taylor Hospice in Birmingham October 2016 and is also a Non-Executive Director on Dudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Trust.

Harry has also been a Justice of the Peace in Worcestershire Courts for more than a decade.

He previously worked as an Operations Director in the hotel industry, working for businesses including Travel Inn and Marriott International.

Declaration of interest:

• Chairman of John Taylor Hospice CIC, Birmingham
• Non-Executive Director for Dudley and Walsall Mental Health NHS Trust
• Trustee to Worcestershire Breast Unit Haven Charity
• Steering group member for NHS research project PEARL
• Owner of F.T.K Associates
• Owner of Vacational Rentals Lda, Portugal
• Magistrate for West Mercia Benches HMCTS 

Mr Christopher Beacock

Non-Executive Director

Mr Christopher Beacock lives in Shropshire, is a Foundation Trust member and takes a keen interest in the hospital. 

He has also served as Chairman of the Clinical Governance and Clinical Audit Committee and also sat on Quality Safety Committee.

He has 27 years clinical experience as a Consultant Urological Surgeon as well as experience as a Deputy Medical Director.  He formally retired in 2014 and has been working on a part time contract since then.

He has worked across a wide range of acute Trusts, integrated care organisations and community service providers and has a long standing interest in medical management. 

Mr David Gilburt

Non-Executive Director

David is Chair of the Audit Committee, and member of the Quality and Safety Committee and the Finance Planning and Digital Committee.

David is a qualified accountant and has worked as Director of Finance in roles across the NHS within Health Authority’s, Clinical Commissioning Groups, and Trusts as well as at a regional level. 

More recently he has worked as an independent consultant specialising in financial turnaround for NHS organisations in financial difficulty. In this capacity he worked at RJAH from June 2007 to July 2008 as Interim Director of Finance and Turnaround.

Declaration of interest:

• Chair of Cheshire PCC and Chief Constable's Joint Audit Advisory Committee
• Non-Executive Director and Audit Chair of Dudley Integrated Health and Care NHST
• Member of the HFMA Governance and Audit Committee

Rachel Hopwood

Non-Executive Director

Rachel joined the Board of Directors at RJAH in December 2019 and is Chair of the Finance, Planning and Digital Committee.

Prior to RJAH, Rachel was a Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Countess of Chester Hospital.

Rachel is a chartered accountant, qualifying with Ernst & Young, a major accounting and advisory firm. After a career in finance and investment banking in the City of London, latterly as an Executive Director at ABN AMRO, she relocated with her family back to Cheshire in 2008.

Prior to joining the Board, Rachel was a Non-Executive Director of Western Cheshire PCT and Lay Advisor to West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group. She is also a Director in a company providing risk, management and financial consultancy services in the region.

Professor Paul Kingston

Non-Executive Director

Paul Kingston was appointed as a Non-Executive Director for RJAH in 2019 and is currently a Professor of Ageing and Mental Heath and the Director of the Centre for Ageing and Mental Health at the University of Chester.

Additionally, Paul has been involved in the development of training material for adult protection and also co-founded the charity Action on Elder Abuse.

He also is the Independent Adult Safeguarding Board Chair for Wigan, NHS England Safeguarding Adult Network and Chair of the Royal British Legions Safeguarding Forum.

Paul chairs the People Committee and also attends the Quality and Safety Committee, Safeguarding Committee and the Audit Comittee.

Alison Tumilty

Non-Executive Director

Alison joined the Board of the Directors as a Non-Executive Director in September 2021. She is also Chair of the Audit Committee at RJAH.

She is a chartered accountant and is the current Chair at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing as well as previously holding Non-Executive Director roles in other healthcare organisations.

Sarfraz Nawaz

Associate Non-Executive Director

Sarfraz joined the Board of Directors at RJAH on 1 October 2021 as Associate Non-Executive Director.
 
A qualified Accountant with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA), he is currently the Director of Finance and Procurement for Ofwat, the regulator for the water industry in England and Wales. He has also held several financial leadership roles across the public sector including the NHS and Coventry City Council.

Declaration of interest:

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).

Mrs Hilary Pepler

Board Advisor

Hilary is the Trust's Board Advisor and member of the Quality and Safety Committe.

Hilary was previously a Non-Executive Director for RJAH who was Chair of the Quality and Safety Committee and a member of the Audit Committe.

Hilary brings a wealth of clinical, managerial and executive experience.  She started her NHS career as a nurse, working primarily within Community Health Services; she then moved into managerial roles, working as the Director of Human Resources at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. In 1993 she became a Trust Chief Executive, working in Chester, Liverpool and the North East Wales Trust.  Following her retirement in 2007 Hilary has worked as a volunteer with the National Trust.
 

Declaration of interest:

• Volunteer for National Trust

Dr Ruth Longfellow

Chief Medical Officer

Ruth has been Chief Medical Officer at RJAH since April 2021.

Ruth graduated from the University of Edinburgh with her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) degree. She then completed her Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCA) examination in 2006 and a Diploma in Medical Education at Nottingham University in 2011.

In 2011, she was appointed to RJAH as a Consultant Anaesthetist. In April 2019, she became the Associate Medical Director for the Trust.

Ruth’s interests include patient safety and Human Factors, medical education and regional anaesthesia.

Sara Ellis-Anderson

Interim Chief Nurse and Patient Safety Officer

Sara was appointed Interim Chief Nurse and Patient Safety Officer in August 2021 having worked at RJAH since 2016. She initially joined the Trust as a Matron, supporting a number of the hospital's services including surgical wards, High Dependency Unit, paediatrics, outpatients, therapies and radiology. In 2020, she was successful in being appointed as Assistant Chief of Professions. 
 

She brings a wealth of leadership experience to this the Board of Directors, having worked previously at Selly Oak Hospital and then University Hospitals Birmingham in Acute Medicine and A&E, before moving to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital to manage the Acute Medical Unit and short stay medical wards and subsequently, the Royal Free Hospital to lead a Nurse-Led Patient Treatment Unit.


In her role as Chief Nurse, Sara will be focused on recruitment and retention; developing the Trust's Nursing and Allied Health Professional workforce; staff wellbeing; implementation of the national Patient Safety Strategy and driving this year's flu vaccination campaign.