Trust Board - Non-Executive Directors
The Trust Board is responsible for the running of our Trust, setting its strategy and overseeing the way it operates. The Board has a Chairman and five Non-Executive Directors, who are appointed by the NHS Appointments Commission and work part time. It also has five Executive Directors, who are full time employees of the Trust. A number of other Directors also sit with the Board but do not have voting rights.
John MacDonald - Trust Chairman
John MacDonald joined University Hospital as Interim Chairman in November 2010 and became substantive in August 2011.
John has seven years experience in chair and non-executive roles, and plays an active role in his local education and business communities. He has twenty years experience of the NHS, including fifteen years managing large acute and teaching hospitals.
In recent years John has been involved in a number of reviews of NHS services within the Midlands and the North East. John has international planning and advisory experience prior to joining the NHS. He worked in Africa and the Middle East in rural development programmes, economic adviser to the World Bank, UN and British Government.
Specialising in leadership, he has lectured at both University of Birmingham and University of York.
He is married with four children.
Keith Norton - Non-Executive Director and Vice Chairman
Keith Norton is Vice Chairman of the Board of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Chairman of the Trust Audit Committee. He is a Chartered Certified Accountant who has just recently retired from full time employment having spent the past seventeen years as Financial Controller of a University College. His earlier career was spent mainly in the engineering sector as Financial Director and Company Secretary of a public quoted company.
In the NHS, Keith was Vice Chairman of Shropshire Health Authority and then a non-executive Director of Shropshire & Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority. He fulfilled the role of Interim Chairman of UHNS from December 2005 to mid May 2006.
Keith has always had an involvement in the voluntary sector serving for 25 years as a School Governor and acting as Hon Treasurer or Hon Auditor of many small or medium sized charities. He was recently Hon Treasurer of Telford and Wrekin Council for Voluntary Service and is currently a Trustee, Director and Company Secretary of Newport (Shropshire) Cottage Care Centre Trust, a charitable organisation which provides day care for the elderly.
Keith is married with two children and two grandchildren and lives just outside Newport, Shropshire. His recreational interests are travel, theatre, gardening , walking and sport. He still plays limited overs cricket, only recently retired from running Half Marathons and is a Manchester City season ticket holder.
Kevin Fox - Non-Executive Director
Kevin Fox is a Non Executive Director on the Board of the UHNS. He was a career civil servant having spent some 24 years in the court service in various parts of England, including three years in the Potteries as the Manager of the County Court, before setting up the office of the Legal Services Ombudsman in 1990.
In 1993 Kevin moved to the Crown Prosecution Service where he held senior position in Liverpool and Manchester before retiring in 2006.
Kevin has been a governor at St Gabriel’s Catholic Primary School in Alsager for some 20 years and Chairman for 15 years. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Patients Panel at Mereport Medical Centre in Alsager.
Kevin moved to South Cheshire in 1985 and he is married with two grown up daughters.
Professor Andy Garner - Non-Executive Director
Andy Garner has held senior positions in academia, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry. He trained in physiology and pharmacology followed by postdoctoral fellowships in Leicester and Uppsala supported by SERC, the Royal Society and Swedish MRC. From 1978-1992 he worked at ICI Pharmaceuticals (now Astra Zeneca) as Head of Gastrointestinal Research prior to his appointment as Company Senior Scientist in 1982. In addition to spending time in Scandinavia and North America, Andy was for 5 years Professor of Pharmacology and Research Dean at the University of the UAE where he was involved in establishing the country’s first medical school.
Andy returned to the UK in 1998 to become R&D Director at Hope Hospital before expanding his portfolio as Executive Director of Academic Affairs with the Trust. Whilst at Hope in Salford he played a major part in developing research strategy across Greater Manchester, both between the three four teaching hospitals and between the NHS and University. In 2003 he was appointed Head of the Medical School at Manchester University before moving to Keele as Dean of the Faculty of Health in 2006. Andy joined the Board of UHNS as a non-Executive Director at the beginning of 2007.
Andy has published well over 100 papers and edited 5 books. In 1990 received the British Society of Gastroenterology Research Medal for his work on understanding mechanisms of mucosal protection.
Robert Collins - Non-Executive Director
Robert Collins has held director posts in both the private and public sectors. He has a strong background in finance and has developed particular expertise in contract negotiations and developing grant aid programmes. Robert has been heavily involved in regeneration programmes with both Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the commercial sector. He currently runs his own company.
John Marlor - Non-Executive Director
John Marlor is a Chartered Accountant, but during his career he has also been involved in operating facilities management contracts at PFI hospitals and schools. He is Non-executive Treasurer with Catch22, a national charity.
John is married with two children and has particular interests in sport, especially football where he is a qualified FA referee.
Andrew Smith
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Andrew Smith was appointed Non-Executive Director on 1st March 2012. Andrew is a Director of Grindeys llp, Solicitors and since becoming a partner in 1999 has held a number of senior posts. He is currently Head of Business Services.
Born in Burslem and educated in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Andrew is involved in a number of roles within the community in North Staffordshire. For over 13 years he has given his time to the Douglas Macmillan Hospice as its honorary solicitor. He has also served as a governor at Abbey Hill Special School in Bucknall and has been Chair for the last six years. He has recently served as the Chair of Stoke on Trent Schools' Forum and is currently company secretary of Churnet Valley Railway (1992) Plc.