Board of Directors
The Care City Innovation Community Interest Company Board of Directors has been established to provide expert advice for those responsible for the development and delivery of the Care City Programme.

Professor Paul Corrigan
Chair
Paul Corrigan gained his first degree in social policy from the LSE in 1969, his PhD at Durham in 1974. He is currently adjunct professor of public health at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and of health policy at Imperial College London.
For the first 12 years of his working life he taught at Warwick University and the Polytechnic of North London. During this period he taught, researched and wrote about inner city social policy and community development. In 1985 he left academic life and became a senior manager in London local government and in 1997 he started to work as a public services management consultant. In 1998 he published Shakespeare on Management.
From July 2001 he worked as a special adviser to Alan Milburn first and then John Reid, the then Secretary of States for Health. At the end of 2005 he became the senior health policy adviser to the Prime Minister Tony Blair Over this six years he was instrumental in developing all the major themes of NHS reform not only in terms of policy levers buy also in developing capacity throughout the NHS to use those levers.
Between June 2007 and March 2009 he was the director of strategy and commissioning at the London Strategic Health Authority.
Since then Paul has been working as a management consultant and an executive coach helping leaders within the NHS create and develop step changes within their organisation. In September 2011 he published a pamphlet “The hospital is dead Long live the Hospital” that was recognised by a leader in the Times as an important contribution to reform. He continues to argue the case for NHS reform. From July 2013 he has become a non executive director of the Care Quality Commission.

Professor Oliver Shanley OBE
Interim Chief Executive, North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT)
Oliver joined NELFT as interim chief executive in July 2019. He joined the Trust from his role as Regional Chief Nurse for NHS England and NHS Improvement, a role he held since 2016. Previously Oliver was Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Nurse at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) for seven years.
Oliver has worked in Mental Health services since 1987, qualifying as a Mental Health Nurse in 1990. He has worked clinically in a variety of mental health settings, predominately in Forensic services. After working at all clinical nursing grades from Staff Nurse to Senior Nurse Specialist, he commenced work in management. He has worked at Executive Nurse level since 2003.
As Chief Nurse for London, Oliver was responsible for a number of key areas including quality and safety, safeguarding, workforce and professional leadership. He also sits on and chairs several national committees including chairing the national independent investigations committee for Mental Health Homicides..
Oliver attained a Doctorate at Kings College London in 2012 and was appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire in 2014.
In the 2016 New Year’s Honours List Oliver was awarded an OBE for services to Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nursing

Steve Tolan
NHS England and NHS Improvement London Region Allied Health Professions Lead
Steve is the NHS England and NHS Improvement London Region Allied Health Professions Lead, providing assurance for the allied health professions (AHPs) linked to delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan and regional strategic priorities.
As a physiotherapist, he trained and spent his clinical career in Essex and East London in various specialities before joining the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy as Head of Practice Development. Steve has worked across health and care sectors in the UK on portfolios of work including health informatics, commissioning policy, quality improvement, system transformation and commercial resilience for clinical staff. He continues to develop and curate a broad range of networks for clinical interest, professional development and regional engagement purposes.
His professional interests include professional leadership, health inequalities, social determinants of health and population empowerment through communication and network building.

Caroline Allum
Executive Medical Director, North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT)
Caroline is the Executive Medical Director at NELFT. She is also a consultant radiologist. She is passionate about delivering high quality services for people.
Caroline’s Portfolio includes:
- Professional leadership for medical staff
- Medical advisor to the Board
- Caldicott Guardian
- Medical education
- Pharmacy
- Clinical effectiveness and audit
- Quality Improvement
- Research and development
- Responsible Officer for medical revalidation
Experience:
- Previously Medical Director at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
- Associate Director Quality and Medical Appraisal at Whittington Health
- Currently Consultant Radiologist - Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Finalist Health Education England - Inspirational Leader 2014
- Listed as one of the Health Service Journal's 50 most inspirational women leaders Reached the final of HSJ Clinical Leadership awards in the category Clinical Leader 2012

Mark Tyson
Director of Policy and Participation, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council (LBBD)
Mark has spent many years working in social care/NHS partnership environments, including on development of integrated care systems.He has worked across community development, crime reduction, anti-social behaviour, drugs/alcohol, adult social care and health partnerships.- Significant senior experience, including at corporate director and AD levels
- Partnership building and management (both formal and informal), and across commissioners and providers
- Strategic analysis, drawing connections and alignments
- Health & social care strategy for vulnerable adults and children, including new models of care, integrated approaches
- Commissioning, specification, procurement and evaluation.
- Political and elected member support
- Information management, presentation, visualisation
Committed to local civic activity: trustee of local history charity (Croydon Natural History & Scientific Society) and Fellow of the RSA. Opera, architecture interests. Photographer.

Jenny Shand
Director, UCLPartners
Jenny has been with Care City since April 2015, working with stakeholders to develop the strategy and securing grants to fund our programme of work. She moved onto our board in June 2019.
Jenny is a Director at UCLPartners, our local Academic Health Science Partnership, providing strategic leadership and is responsible for income generation to support delivery of UCLP’s strategy. As Director of the Care City Cohort dataset she runs a research programme in collaboration with Care City, LBBD, BHR CCG and NIHR North Thames Applied Research Centre.
Jenny has a wide experience of healthcare in different contexts – as a researcher, a hospital manager and as a consultant at McKinsey. She holds a PhD in Health Economics from UCL and a masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.