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time the turnover of the business increased from £3m organisation and a Local Authority. Anita has pioneered
to £200m. Between January 2011 and October 2013 integrated working between Local Government and
he was a director of the business responsible for the NHS for many years and the model of partnership
acquisitions. Ian is now the Group Chief Executive of working that she has developed has been adopted and
The Clearway Group Limited, a void property services implemented successfully in other parts of the country.
group. She has a strong reputation nationally for promoting
and implementing innovative solutions to tackle health
Jeannie France-Hayhurst - Non-Executive inequalities. Her work has been acknowledged through
Director several awards including an MBE for services to health
and social care in 2008. In 2010 Anita was seconded
Jeannie took up her role at Alder Hey in July 2013 and to the Department of Health as Managing Director
was re-appointed for a second term of three years in (Director General level) to lead the setting up of Public
June 2016. She is a highly-regarded family law barrister Health England (an executive agency of the DH) as the
with wide experience of the voluntary sector, politics delivery arm for DH public health policy, in line with
and the commercial world. She is known throughout changes introduced by the Health and Social Care
the wider community in the North West as a fearless Act 2012. In 2017 Anita was awarded an Honorary
advocate and is much sought after on the seminar/ Membership of the Faculty of Public Health.
lecturing circuit. Jeannie has made time in her busy
career for voluntary and charitable work and has Dame Jo Williams - Non-Executive Director
extensive experience of dealing with vulnerable adults
and the socially disadvantaged. She has significant Dame Jo joined Alder Hey in November 2016. She
experience of service on boards and committees at trained at Keele University as a social worker alongside
both local and national level. studying for a dual honours degree. Once qualified
she spent the next 30 years in the public sector; the
Claire Dove OBE - Non-Executive Director last ten as a Director of Social Services firstly in the
and Chair of the Workforce and Organisational Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and then Cheshire
Development Committee County Council. She then worked for five years as Chief
Executive of the Royal Mencap Society. Her full time
working career concluded with a three year period as
Claire joined the Alder Hey Board in October 2013 and
Chair of the Care Quality Commission. Twice honoured
was re-appointed for a second term in September
by the Queen, she received a CBE in 2000 and a DBE
2016. She is a high impact leader of social change
in 2008. Dame Jo has always been driven by a passion
and brings a track record of success from a variety of
for equality of opportunity, fairness and justice and is a
non-executive, executive and community leadership
strong believer in team work and partnership. Currently
roles – shaping policy and practice in the business,
the Chair of Vivo Care Services, a member of Keele
social enterprise and charity worlds. Renowned in
University Council, a trustee of Dartington Hall Trust
Merseyside, known nationally and internationally,
and a Deputy Lieutenant in Cheshire.
Claire’s work in education, regeneration, anti-poverty,
equality and fairness arenas positions her as an
independent thinker, experienced practitioner and DECLARATION OF
INTERESTS
trusted adviser to many. She was awarded an OBE for
services to education in 2012. Claire’s achievements
cross many decades, fields and roles. Having built the A copy of the Register of Interests is available by
award winning Blackburne House Group (BHG) over request from Erica Saunders, Director of Corporate
the last 30 years, her attention is now moving towards Affairs via the Membership Office on 0151 252 5128 or
growing a portfolio of roles to complement her work at by email at membership@alderhey.nhs.uk.
BHG.
POLITICAL DONATIONS
Anita Marsland MBE - Non-Executive Director
and Chair of the Clinical Quality Assurance Alder Hey did not make any political donations during
2017/18.
Committee
Anita was appointed to the Board in July 2014 and
was re-appointed for a second term in June 2017. She
began her career in Local Government in 1974 and
is a qualified a social worker. She later held a range
of senior management posts, rising to Chief Officer.
In 2002 Anita became one of the country’s first joint
Chief Executive appointments between an NHS
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