The board is made of up four non-executive directors, including the chair, and three executive directors. The director of NHS Employers sits as an executive director.
Read the minutes from the latest board meeting.
The board meets bi-monthly and its members are:
Sir Keith Pearson JP, chair, NHS Confederation
Sir Keith Pearson was appointed as Chair of Health Education England on 2 May. Sir Keith stepped down with immediate effect from chairing the NHS Employers’ company board, and we will put in place an interim chair for the NHS Employers’ company board shortly. We will update this page as soon as an interim chair is in place.
Keith Pearson started work as NHS Confederation chair on 1 May 2010. Prior to taking up this appointment, he was chair of NHS East of England Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and before that chair of the former Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA.
He is chair of the General Medical Council’s UK Revalidation Programme Board, chair of the Tri-Base British American Community Relations committee for the Ministry of Defence and chair of the Health in Criminal Justice National Advisory Group for the Department of Health and the Ministry of Justice National Offender Management Service.
He was appointed as a Magistrate in 1999 and serves on the Peterborough Bench.
Simon Pleydell, chief executive, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Simon has worked in a number of management and leadership posts in the NHS since 1980. After 10 years operational experience in London Simon moved to South Tees Hospitals as director of planning. In 1997 he was appointed chief executive of East Yorkshire Trust and then subsequently CE of York Trust. He was appointed CE of South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust in 2003.
Joanne Cubbon, chief executive, Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Jo joined the Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust as chief executive in April 2008. She started out as a registered general nurse, has trained as a health visitor and has an MBA from Liverpool University. Jo spent a number of years in both clinical and senior management roles also taking up the CEO role at Burton Hospitals before joining East Lancashire NHS Trust, a four site, 7000 staff hospital with an annual budget of £292m in 2005.
Dean Royles, director, NHS Employers
Dean Royles director for NHS Employers. Previous roles include director of workforce and education at NHS North West; director of HR and communications at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and deputy director of workforce for the NHS at the Department of Health, where he was responsible for developing a national HR strategy for the NHS. He also had responsibility for work linked to the European Working Time Directive.
Dean was the first HR director at East Midlands Ambulance Service following its creation in 1999. He has also worked at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and in a community trust having started his HR career in industrial relations in a local authority.
Mike Farrar, chief executive, NHS Confederation
Mike Farrar was appointed chief executive of the NHS Confederation in May 2011. Immediately prior to this, he was chief executive of the North West England Strategic Health Authority. His former roles include chief executive of the West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authorities, chief executive of Tees Valley Health Authority and head of primary care at the Department of Health.
Mike chaired the Strategic Health Authority Chief Executive's Group (2002 - 2009) and the NHS Confederation GP Contract negotiating team that successfully negotiated the new General Medical Service contract. He also chaired the Office for Life Sciences Innovation Delivery Board and is vice chair of Sport England. In August 2009, Mike was appointed as National Tsar for Sport and Health.