Board Members and Staff
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People
Trudy Boyce – our lead homeless healthcare nurse practitioner and care navigator co-ordinator
Nurse Trudy Boyce pioneered a patient-centred method for monitoring hypertension in pregnancy. This model of care offered empathic support in order to encourage home care and self-monitoring of blood pressure, reducing the need for hospital admission. She was awarded the MBE for services to the NHS and Midwifery. She has led the development of the patient-centred advocacy services for the London Pathway pilot at UCLH.
Dr Nigel Hewett – clinical director
Graduated 1980, after GP training volunteered for 2 years training barefoot doctors in the Amazon jungle of Peru. Has worked with homeless people since 1990. 1997 founding chair of Leicester Single homeless multi-disciplinary team and 2000 set up full time Leicester Homeless Primary Healthcare Service. 2006 made Fellow of Royal College of General Practitioners and awarded OBE for Services to the Homeless. 2009 Set up University College London Hospital’s London Pathway homeless team.
Alex Bax - Chief Executive
Alongside his work on the London Pathway Alex is a visiting fellow at the Institute of Health and Human Development at the University of East London, member of a NICE group developing guidance on physical planning and health, and a member of the London Child Poverty Commission. He also works as an independent consultant. For five years Alex was a senior advisor to Ken Livingstone and then Boris Johnson, initially the Mayor’s planning policy advisor and then the Mayor’s health and sustainable development advisor. He left London’s City Hall in September 2009 after 18 years in strategic London Government. For the Mayor he led a wide range of projects and held many appointments, for example chairing London’s European Social Fund and European Regional Development Fund Committees and the East London Green Grid, and leading the development of London’s first statutory health inequalities strategy and the first major ‘alterations’ to the London Plan.
Stephanie Swan - finance and administration
Stephanie Swan has over 30 years experience in public administration. She left City Hall in 2009 where she had been director of finance and administration for the Greater London Authority’s Policy and Partnerships Directorate for eight years. Previously she was head of finance and adminstration for the London Research Centre and held senior roles in the Inner London Education Authority and the GLC.
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Trustees
Professor Aidan Halligan - Chairman
Professor Aidan Halligan was the first Director of Clinical Governance for the National Health Service and formed the Leicester-based NHS Clinical Governance Support Team to translate the vision of clinical governance into a nationwide reality. From January 2003 until October 2005, he served in the UK Department of Health as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, with responsibility for issues of clinical governance, patient safety and quality of care across the NHS in England. In that role, he was joint Senior Responsible Officer for the National Programme for IT, and the senior director sponsor of the Healthcare Commission, National Patient Safety Agency and National Institute for Clinical Excellence. As Chairman of the London Pathway Aidan brings his unmatched experience of quality improvement to bear on healthcare for the homeless.
Lord Ajay Kakkar
Ajay Kumar Kakkar is Professor of Surgical Sciences and Dean for External Relations at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London.
Kakkar is Chair of the Clinical Quality Directorate of University College London Partners Academic Health Science Partnership, Director of the Thrombosis Research Institute, London, and lectures and publishes widely on his specialism. He has worked with the NHS on its strategy to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE).
Among the awards Kakkar has received are Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of England 1996, the David Patey Prize, Surgical Research Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1996, the Knoll William Harvey Prize, International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis 1997 and the James IV Association of Surgeons Fellow 2006.He is Chair of the Board of Governors at Alleyn’s School, Dulwich, where he was educated, and a Trustee of the Dulwich Estate.
Kakkar was created a life peer on 22 March 2010 as Baron Kakkar, of Loxbeare in the County of Devon,[3] and introduced in the House of Lords the same day. He sits on the crossbenches.
Sir Ian Kennedy
Professor Sir Ian Kennedy LLD is a lawyer who, for the past few decades, has lectured and written on the law and the ethics of healthcare. He is also Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at the School of Public Policy, University College of London and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
He has been involved in public life for 25 years, earning a reputation for safeguarding the interests of members of the public in healthcare. He was Chairman of the Healthcare Commission, the public watchdog in health services provision, from its creation until 2009.
During his time at the Commission, Sir Ian worked to improve standards across the NHS through access to information and knowledge for patients, clinicians and managers. He is, perhaps, best known as the leader of the public enquiry into the deaths in children’s heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary (1998–2001). This report contributed to the establishment of the Healthcare Commission in 2002.
He also chaired the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and is currently Chair of the UK Research Integrity Office, whose remit covers the proper conduct of research in universities and other research organisations.
In 2009 he became the first Chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.
David Pascall CBE
David Pascall, BSc (Hons) MBA aged 61 is an experienced business leader who has also made significant contributions to the public sector with executive and non-executive Board positions in the UK and Europe. He spent over 25 years with BP and has recently retired as a Managing Director of Terra Firma Capital Partners, the European private equity company, where he retains Supervisory Board positions in Germany. In the public sector he was an advisor to Lady Thatcher in the No 10 Policy Unit and chaired the National Curriculum Council in 1990-91. During the past two years he has been a non-executive director of the Royal Free NHS Hospital Trust and is now a trustee of the London Pathway. He is also a long-standing school governor of Sir John Cass Secondary School in Tower Hamlets where he is now Chairman.
Sir Peter Dixon
Sir Peter is a non-executive director of Quintain Estates and Board Member of the Norfolk Broads Authority. He is Chairman of The Office for Public Management, former Chairman of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as a lay member of the Information Tribunal (Lord Chancellor’s Department).
Sir Peter chaired the Housing Corporation, the government’s national affordable housing agency, from October 2003 until December 2008 when it transferred its function to two successor agencies. His previous working life included running a variety of businesses as well as working in banking and finance. Peter was awarded a knighthood ‘for services to the housing sector’ by Her Majesty The Queen in the New Year Honours List 2009
Stephen Robertson
Stephen has been CEO at the Big Issue Foundation since July 2007 and Group Chief Executive of the Big Issue since February 2009. His previous role was Director of Commercial Operations at Shelter, where he had responsibility for a chain of 100 charity Stores, and mail-order business and a Training business primarily focusing on Housing professionals. The combined profits from the 3 activities were £1m in 2007. All profits helped to fund the work of the parent Charity. Stephen was a member of the Senior Management Team with cross organisational responsibility for the strategic management of the Charity. Stephen was at Shelter for 13 years.
Stephen also helped found and ultimately chaired the professional body that represents the majority of Charity Retailers in the UK, ‘The Association of Charity Shops’.
Cathy James
Cathy James is Acting Director of the whistleblowing charity, Public Concern at Work (PCaW), an independent charity that promotes accountability and responsible whistleblowing across all sectors. The organisation works with employers, employees, government, regulators, media and lawyers to appropriately address whistleblowing in the workplace. It was also closely involved in settling the scope and detail of the Public Interest Disclosure Act which protects responsible whistleblowing. The charity has four key activities:
· free legal help for individuals who are concerned about wrongdoing at work but are unsure whether or how to raise the matter;
· training and professional services for organisations;
· research and policy work on governance; and
· public education.Cathy James is an experienced solicitor. She previously held a senior legal role in the NHS, and before that was a partner in a large city law firm.