Eastern AHSN is a company limited by guarantee.
Our board comprises a wealth of experience and expertise, meeting four times a year to provide oversight and leadership in setting the company’s strategic aims, whilst ensuring that the necessary financial and human resources are in place to meet our objectives.
Daily management of Eastern AHSN is delegated to the chief executive and the senior management team, who operate within discretionary powers and protocols delegated by the board.
We spend roughly half of our time on the adoption and spread of the national programmes delivered by the AHSN Network. We spend the other half on areas of health consistent with the priorities set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and in the Eastern region and the areas where our region is best placed to make major advances.
We will always be clear about any commercial interests Eastern AHSN holds with any innovations we support when we are working with healthcare providers and commissioners, including revenue sharing or commercial agreements.
Registered number — 08530726
| CURRENT DIRECTORS | Date of appointment to the Board
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End of term of office | Post | Declared Interests |
| Elisabeth Buggins | 24.11.15 | 31.03.22 | Chair | Chair, Accord Housing Association (from October 2016), Non-Executive Director (from 2014)
Chair, 2020 Oversight Group and 2020 Finance Sustainability Group, hosted by NHS Blood and Transplant (from 2013) Chair, Walsall Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Association (from 2005) Leader, The Big Feed, Walsall (from 2013) Working with Ashley Community & Housing Ltd, a social enterprise working with refugees |
| Tracy Dowling
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01.01.20 | 31.12.22 | Non-Executive Director | Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Chair of East of England Applied Research Collaborative (ARC) Board member of Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) Chair of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local People Board Chair of NIHR East Region CRN (Clinical Research Network) |
| Sarah Salvilla
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01.01.20 | 31.12.22 | Non-Executive Director | Non-Executive Director for the Bupa Egypt Insurance Board since (until March 2021)
Global Healthcare Management and Clinical Innovations Director, Bupa (until March 2021) Chief Health Officer and VP for Health Management at FWD Insurance (from April 2021) |
| Michael Hornberger | 01.01.20 | 31.12.22 | Non-Executive Director | Professor of Applied Dementia Research, University of East Anglia
Associate Dean of Innovation, University of East Anglia Director, NeurOn Limited (Neuropsychology Online) (from April 2019) Director, DeliriOn Limited (Delirium Online) (from February 2019) |
| Maxine Mackintosh | 01.04.20 | 31.03.23 | Non-Executive Director | Research Associate, Alan Turing Institute, The Health Foundation and the University of Oxford (from February 2020)
Director, One HealthTech (from June 2016) Programme Lead at Genomics England for Diverse Data (from June 2021) Advisory board of national review into NHS technology Partner (Alexander Finlayson) CEO, Nye Health Father (Andrew Mackintosh) Chair, Sphere Fluidics and External Expert Lead on HM Treasury Knowledge Assets |
| Gary Howsam | 19.01.21 | 18.01.24 | Non-Executive Director | GP Partner, Octagon Medical Practice, Peterborough (from January 2019)
Clinical Chair, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (from July 2016) Vice Chair, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP/ICS Board Vice Chair, Peterborough Health and Wellbeing Board Vice Chair (External Affairs) Royal College of General Practitioners (from November 2019) Director, Octagon Property Services Ltd (from April 2020) |
| Lindsey Cook | 01.03.21 | 29.02.24 | Non-Executive Director | Director, Wicked Minds Healthcare Consultancy (From August 2012)
Non-Executive Director (interim Chair December 2020), Create Development (from March 2020) Trustee, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) (from June 2020) PPV member, NHS England Chemotherapy CRG (from September 2019) Trustee, Anglia Care Trust (from February 2020 until June 2021); Chair, Anglia Care Trust (from June 2021) Business Mentor, Sheffield Hallam University, Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre AWRC (from 2020) |
| Piers Ricketts | 19.04.18 | Chief Executive Officer | Deputy Chair of AHSN Network (until August 2019)
Chair of AHSN Network (from September 2019 until March 2021) |