Director
Sian Thomas
Sian Thomas is director of NHS Employers, bringing a wealth of experience from within the NHS and earlier roles at NHS Employers. Her responsibilities include developing and managing a number of high profile programmes for NHS Employers and responsibility for the NHS Jobs services and the Workforce Change and Improvement Team. She leads on London members, the FT Network and AUK Teaching Hospitals HR Network.
Sian attends the NHS Confederation Board of Directors and contributes to the Public Sector Employers Forum, the NHS Professionals Stakeholder Forum and is the NHS Employers link to the NHS Confederation Independent Sector Partners Network and Acute Sector Forum.
She joined NHS Employers in December 2005 from Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust where she was director of HR and organisational development. In total, she worked in the NHS at director level for nearly ten years, working across mental health, primary care and acute organisations. In 2004, the Association of Healthcare Human Resource Management named her HR director of the year.
Contact Sian at sian.thomas@nhsemployers.org
Directors
Gill Bellord, Deputy Director and Director for Core Membership Services
Gill Bellord heads up key work programme areas including employment services, medical workforce, equality and diversity and primary care contracting.
She is also responsible for national pay and pensions negotiations on behalf of NHS organisations, securing employer involvement in pay review evidence, negotiating changes to contractual arrangements for Agenda for Change and employed doctors and maintaining current contracts. Gill also leads on employment relations and is our link to the work of the national Social Partnership Forum.
Contact Gill at gill.bellord@nhsemployers.org
Caroline Hatton, Deputy Director of Communications
Caroline Hatton oversees communications across NHS Employers, ensuring we provide high quality and effective publications, events, web-based information and develop a strong organisational profile and reputation through campaigns and media work. She is also responsible for engagement and networking with NHS organisations to ensure that NHS Employers is truly responsive to the needs of employers and for co-ordinating our relationships with government and key stakeholder organisations.
Contact Cal at caroline.hatton@nhsemployers.org
Programme leads
Geoff Winnard
Geoff Winnard is Head of Agenda for Change/non-Medical pay at NHS Employers. He is responsible for working with and supporting employer representatives in national negotiations on conditions of service through the NHS Staff Council and its various technical sub groups including those on the Knowledge and Skills Framework and the Job Evaluation. He also leads on employer evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body. His team provide advice and guidance to employers on the nationally agreed pay and conditions of service for non-medial staff and related issues.
Contact Geoff at geoffrey.winnard@nhsemployers.org
Bill McMillan
Bill McMillan leads NHS Employers’ work on negotiations in relation to pay for doctors directly employed in the NHS and for salaried dentists as well as our negotiations in relation to the NHS Pension Scheme, including the reviews of ill health retirement and of the NHS Injury Benefit Scheme. His teams organise the Joint Negotiating Committees for Consultant doctors, for SAS doctors and for Junior Doctors; the JNC for salaried dentists; and the NHS Pensions Scheme Governance Group (a sub-group of the NHS staff Council) and its Technical Advisory Group. These are partnership groups with the appropriate nationally recognised trade unions. He is responsible for the preparation of NHS Employers’ evidence to the Doctors and Dentists Pay Review Body during the Autumn of each year.
Contact Bill at bill.mcmillan@nhsemployers.org
Andrew Clapperton
Andrew Clapperton heads the Primary Care Workforce and Contracting team which is responsible for the negotiations of the General Medical Services contract and the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework. Andrew joined NHS Employers in March 2008. Prior to taking up this role, Andrew spent 12 years working in various policy and finance roles at the Department of Health. Andrew’s experience before then covers both the private and public sector, including eight years in the NHS.
Contact Andrew at andrew.clapperton@nhsemployers.org
David Grantham
David Grantham is Head of Programmes for NHS Employers. He has over 17 years experience of employment relations and medical workforce issues. He started his career with the British Medical Association working at national level on GP issues and contract negotiations before becoming a BMA industrial relations officer in London for several years. In 2004 he moved into the NHS, becoming HR Director at Whipps Cross University Hospital in 2006 before joining NHS Employers in April 2008. He leads work on the medical workforce, productivity and flexible workforce.
Contact David at david.grantham@nhsemployers.org
Karen Charman, Head of employment services
As head of employment services at NHS Employers, Karen leads and directs the work of the employment services function, incorporating workforce planning; recruitment and retention; health, work and wellbeing; modernising health professions; and employment standards. She will also act as a key representative with members and stakeholders driving forward NHS Employers’ employment services programme of work across the UK. Karen joins NHS Employers from Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS trust where she was acting deputy chief executive and director of performance. Karen is also a registered nurse and returns to this once a month, keeping her connected with the needs of staff and patients, and the delivery of quality care.
Contact Karen at karen.charman@nhsemployers.org
Julian Topping, Head of workplace health and regulation
Julian manages our workplace health and regulation issues work and is currently providing input to the government’s Health, Work and Well-being strategy, roll out of the stress management standards and new guidance on pre appointment checks.
Contact Julian at julian.topping@nhsemployers.org
Elizabeth Eddy, Head of workforce e-solutions
Liz leads the national work and projects for NHS Jobs Service, the Registration Partnership Project (a workforce synergy project with DH, Connecting for Health and Electronic Staff Record) and the professional agenda for nursing and midwifery.
Contact Liz on 0113 3063032 or elizabeth.eddy@nhsemployers.org
Godfrey Perera, Head of European and international employment
Godfrey represents the views of NHS organisations on European and international employment legislation, regulation and policy issues. Godfrey is President of the European Public Sector Employers and Secretary General of the European Hospital and Healthcare Employers Association.
Contact Godfrey at godfrey.perera@nhsemployers.org
Carol Baxter CBE, Head of equality, diversity and human rights
Carol ensures that equality and diversity are integrated into the wider work of NHS Employers and leads on our programmes to help NHS organisations embed equality, diversity and human rights in their work. This includes providing guidance and updates on legislation, representing the combined views of NHS trusts, and sharing knowledge and good practice. Carol also develops and maintains links with national equality commissions, the higher education sector and trade unions. She was awarded a CBE in 2009 and has been inducted into the Nursing Times Hall of Fame.
Contact Carol on 0113 3063020
Advisers
Dr Ashley Fraser, Medical Director for NHS Employers
Ashley leads our Medical Workforce Programme working with employers to help them understand and contribute to changes in the recruitment, training and career structure of the medical workforce. This includes providing guidance to NHS organisations and representing NHS organisations’ views to policy makers.
Ashley is a consultant histopathologist and clinical director for pathology.
Contact Ashley at ashley.fraser@nhsemployers.org
Graham Saunders, NHS Employers policy adviser
Graham provides advice across a wide range of medical workforce issues including the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers, the changing role of doctors, funding education and training and medical regulation. Graham has worked in the NHS the whole of his professional life. He was District General Manager and Trust Chief Executive in Harrogate for almost 20 years, and before his retirement in September 2005 was Chief Executive of the West Yorkshire Workforce Development Confederation for 5 years.
Contact Graham at graham.saunders@nhsemployers.org or on 07721880518
Professor Tony Butterworth CBE, Nursing and non-medical professions
Tony’s work for NHS Employers includes links with modernising the health professions, the development of research and teaching careers and developing high level engagement with health profession organisations. He is also Director for the Centre for Clinical and Academic Workforce Innovation, University of Lincoln and Non-Executive director of the NHS Institute. An experienced clinician, researcher and leader, his previous recent posts have included Professor, Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Manchester and WDC Chief Executive in the East Midlands.
Contact Tony at tbutterworth@lincoln.ac.uk