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.

Yvonne Kelly
Principal and CEO, Barking & Dagenham College

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Shareen Pavaday
Senior Policy and Evidence Lead – Equality and Inclusion, NHS England and NHS Improvement

Shareen has over 15 years’ experience working in the NHS since graduating from University of Hertfordshire where she gained a degree in Therapy Radiography. After working along the south coast for Poole Hospital for 5 years, Shareen returned to London to continue her Radiotherapy career at Imperial College, Charing Cross before moving onto North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH). Shareen eventually moved over to manage the Cancer Services and embedded her methods of effective leadership and management skills to a team of over 30 staff. Managing the national cancer standards locally and networking across North Central London (NCL) STP, Shareen quickly became an expert in her field where her clinical knowledge and skills gave a rare credibility for her role.
In 2019, Shareen decide to step away from clinical services and started a new role as Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as her passion grew to become the person that she needed to see representing her. During her time in post Shareen successfully launched staff network, completed collaborative EDS2 events with neighbouring organisations and worked closely with partners to coordinate STP-wide events to engage with stakeholders across all 5 CCGs in NCL.
More recently, Shareen had been proud to step into the role of Equality and Inclusion Senior Policy and Evidence Lead within NHSE/I, where she continues to work closely with the national WRES team and collaborating across the wider teams within the People Directorate. Shareen is driven to use her voice and platform to improve the experiences of under-represented groups and drawing experiences from her years within cancer networks she is driven to continue her own learning whilst actively sharing knowledge and building relationships across local and national forums.

Michael Barker
Founder Saffron Steer Ltd & Strategy Partner Physio 3.0

Michael has a lifelong career in healthcare. He trained as a physiotherapist in South Africa. He then continued to develop his clinical career in the UK at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital where he held the post of Consultant Physiotherapist to the Intensive Care Directorate and developed models of care that are still in practice today. He then went on to complete his MBA at Imperial College Business School and since then has developed a successful career as a Board level executive managing complex projects that have set a new future for and successfully transformed healthcare organisations.

He is a healthcare entrepreneur, having set up two healthcare companies. The first is Saffron Steer, an influential and experienced healthcare strategy business. The focus of Saffron Steer’s work is on creating a differentiated competitive advantage across NHS, private and charitable sector organisations to position and grow their services. The second is a new concept Physiotherapy practice, “Physio 3.0” which has given him the opportunity to put a lot of what he knows works, and doesn’t work, in healthcare service delivery, into practice.

Michael is particularly interested in ‘people powered health’ - how people are included in the decisions about their health. He believes healthcare organisations need to move beyond the product of care towards the experience of care. This subject has been the focus of a lot of his work over the past decade.

Avril McIntyre MBE DL
Director, Community Resources 

A community leader with a proven track record.  During her 13 year role as Chief Executive of LifeLine Community Projects, it grew from grassroots to a charity with an annual turnover of £5million equipping people for life and work through a range of services including employability programmes, family support and mentoring.  

Since then, she has led the team at Community Resources, a charity which mobilises people to find solutions to the problems faced in their community.  Based in Barking & Dagenham, initiatives developed by volunteers seek to tackle the issues primarily caused by poverty and isolation.  Seven years on, 3 of the initial projects are now having significant impact; 2 have been replicated nationally.  

Community Resources is the secretariat for BD_Collective, the social sector infrastructure entity commissioned by B&D Council. She is the Chair of BD_Collective and closely involved in working with the Council and other agencies to develop effective partnership across the borough, maximizing the role of the social sector.