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NHS Staff Council executive members

Details of the executive members of the NHS Staff Council.

15 November 2023

The English employers side of the executive committee of the NHS Staff Council is chaired by Oonagh Monkhouse, director of workforce and organisational development at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.  

The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments, and the English Department of Health and Social Care, are also represented.    

    • Helga Pile (Staff side chair) - Acting Head of Health, UNISON. NB. Sara Gorton is on an internal secondment within UNISON, and will resume her role as staff side chair in due course.
    • Alice Sorby (Staff side treasurer) - Director, Employment Relations, Royal College of Midwives
    • Rachel Harrison - Public Services National Officer, GMB Trade Union
    •  Richard Munn- National Officer for Health, Unite The Union
    • Joanne Galbraith-Marten – Director of Employment Relations and Legal Services, Royal College of Nursing
    • Matt McLaughlin, UNISON, Scotland
    • Nicky Hughes, Associate Director of Nursing, Royal College of Nursing, Cymru Wales
    • Staff-side secretary: Jim Fahie - Assistant Director for Employment Relations, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
    • Oonagh Monkhouse (Chair) -  Director of Workforce and Organisational Development, Royal Papworth Hospital
    • Steve Ned (Deputy chair) - Director of People, Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 
    • Caroline Julien - Chief People Officer, Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
    • Meera Nair - Chief People Officer, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust 
    • Lisa Ward - Director of People, North West Ambulance Service
    • Amy Beeton- Chief People Office, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust
    • Ian Reid - Secretary, Management Steering Group (NHS Scotland Employers)
    • Sue Green - Director, NHS Wales Employers (Devolved Nation representative)
    • Claire Smyth - Director of People and Organisational Development, Northern Health and Social Care Trust (NHS Northern Ireland Employers)
    • Employer-side secretary: Karen Barnard - Assistant Director, Employment Relations, NHS Employers