Our Board

Board Meeting Dates & Papers
Committee Structures
Board Declaration of Interests
Code of Conduct for Members of NHS Lanarkshire
Non-Executive Directors Portfolios

Non-Executive Directors
Executive Directors
Executive Directors Non Board Members
Board Secretary

Board Meeting Dates & Papers

2025 Board Meeting Dates

Thursday 27 March 2025
- The Board will meet at 9.30am in Meeting Room 10, Kirklands Headquarters, Bothwell
Thursday 29 May 2025
Thursday 31 July 2025
Thursday 2 October 2025
Thursday 27 November 2025

All meetings start at 9.30am unless stated otherwise above. The Board will meet in Meeting Room 10, Kirklands Headquarters, Bothwell.

If you wish to watch the proceedings or attend a Board meeting in person, please contact Allison Mclean, Interim Board Secretary:

Telephone: 01698 858181
Email Allison.Mclean@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Board Papers 2025

Archived Board Papers

Board Papers 2024

Board Papers 2023

Board Papers 2022

Board Papers 2021

Board Papers 2020

Board Papers 2019

Board Papers 2018

Board Papers 2017

Board Declaration of Interests

The following sets out the up-to-date position with regard to the Declaration of Interests by Board Members and Senior Officers, in accordance with Sections 4 and 5 of the Board’s Code of Conduct for Board Members.

Register of Interests

Registerable Interests

Registerable interests fall into the categories of:

Category 1 – Remuneration
Category 2 – Related Undertakings
Category 3 – Contracts
Category 4 – Houses, Lands and Buildings
Category 5 – Interest in Shares and Securities
Category 6 – Gifts and Hospitality
Category 7 – Non-Financial Interests

Board Members and Senior Officers Eligible to Submit a Declaration

The Board Members and Senior Officers eligible to submit a Declaration, being in the position of Non-Executive Director, Executive Director of the NHS Board or Senior Officer of NHS Lanarkshire, are:

Appointed Members

Martin Hill, Board Chair / Non Executive Board Member
Ally Boyle, Board Vice Chair / Non Executive Board Member
Lesley McDonald, Non Executive Board Member / Whistleblowing Champion
Brian Moore, Non Executive Board Member
Donald Reid, Non Executive Board Member
James Muir, Non Executive Board Member
Colin Lee, Non Executive Board Member
Nauman Dar, Non Executive Board Member
Siobhan White, Non Executive Board Member
Phillip Couser, Non Executive Board Member

Stakeholder Members

Sylvia Stewart, Employee Director / Non Executive Board Member
Maureen Lees, Chair of the Area Clinical Forum / Non Executive Board Member

Local Authority Elected Members

Cllr Eileen Logan, South Lanarkshire Council
Cllr Michael Coyle, North Lanarkshire Council

Executive Members

Jann Gardner, Chief Executive
Chris Deighan, Executive Medical Director
Michael Breen, Director of Finance
Professor S. Josephine Pravinkumar, Director of Public Health and Health Policy
Eddie Docherty, Executive Director for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals

Executive Directors

Russell Coulthard, Director of Acute Services
Colin Lauder, Director of Planning, Property and Performance
Jacqui Jones, Director of Human Resources
Soumen Sengupta, South Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership / Executive Director South Lanarkshire Council
Ross McGuffie, Chief Officer, North Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership
Donald Wilson, Director of Information and Digital Technology
Calvin Brown, Director of Communications
Trudi Marshall, Interface Director
Paul Cannon, Board Secretary

Further Information

For further information regarding any aspect of this paper or for further information, please contact:- Paul Cannon, Board Secretary Telephone: 01698 858181 Email:paul.cannon@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Code of Corporate Governance

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NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Non-Executive Director Portfolios

Martin Hill, Chair

Chair of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Chair of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee

Ally Boyle, Vice Chair

Vice Chair of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Chair Population Health Committee
Member of Audit and Risk Committee
Member of South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board

Phillip Couser

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Population Health Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance Committee
Member of North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board
Chair of Interface Performance Sub-Committee

Cllr Michel Coyle

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Population Health Committee

Nauman Dar

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Audit & Risk Committee
Member of Staff Governance Committee
Member of North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board
Member of Hospital Services Sub-Committee

Jane Duffty

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Population Health Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance Committee
Member of Staff Governance Committee

Scott Haldane

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Population Health Committee
Member of Audit and Risk Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance Committee

Colin Lee

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance
Member of Staff Governance
Member of Interface Performance Sub-Committee

Maureen Lees

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Member of Population Health Committee
Chair of Healthcare Governance Committee
Member of Endowment Sub-Committee
Chair of the Area Clinical Forum

Lesley McDonald (Whistleblowing Champion)

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Chair of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Chair of Audit and Risk Committee
Member of Staff Governance Committee
Chair of South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board
Member of Endowment Sub-Committee

Brian Moore

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Chair of Remuneration Committee
Chair of Staff Governance Committee
Vice-Chair North Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board
Chair of Endowment Sub-Committee

James Muir

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Audit and Risk Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance Committee
Chair of Hospital Services Sub-Committee

Donald Reid

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance
Chair of Finance & Resources Sub-Committee
Chair of Monklands Replacement Sub-Committee
Member of South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board

Sylvia Stewart

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Member of Audit and Risk Committee
Member of Healthcare Governance
Member of Staff Governance
Member of Monklands Replacement Sub-Committee
Member of South Lanarkshire Integration Joint Board
Co-Chair of Area Partnership Forum

Siobhan White

Member of NHS Lanarkshire Board
Member of Planning, Performance and Resources Committee
Member of Endowment Trustees Committee
Member of Audit and Risk Committee
Member of Population Health Committee
Member of Finance & Resource Sub-Committee

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Martin Hill

Board Chair

Biography

Martin Hill is a retired health service senior manager and former trust chief executive, having most recently served as vice-chair of Lothian NHS Board and a member of Edinburgh and West Lothian Integration Joint Boards and, before that, as a non-executive member of NHS 24.

Martin has also served as a Board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), with particular interest in climate change and environmental sustainability within health.

Martin has wide ranging experience in strategy development, executive coaching, leadership development and change management.

Alastair Boyle MBE

Board Vice Chair / Non-Executive Board Member

Biography

Alastair Boyle MBE has been involved in protecting the public for all of his career. He joined the Fire and Rescue Service in 1993 and quickly rose through the ranks. Ally held many senior positions across the West of Scotland and prior to the reform of Scottish Fire & Rescue Services he was the Head of Community Safety for Strathclyde Fire & Rescue and a member of the Corporate Management Team.

Ally has a particular expertise in Community Planning and Partnership Working and is passionate about prevention, early intervention and reducing inequalities. He has a strong conviction on the considerable benefits of integrated services and that the best solutions are developed with those most affected.

Ally was diagnosed with a blood cancer in 2008 and, as a result of this diagnosis, he established a partnership between the Fire and Rescue Service and the charity Anthony Nolan. The partnership has volunteers across Scotland who go to secondary schools to educate young people about stem cell, blood and organ donation and recruit them to the stem cell register.

Ally is a Trustee of Blood Cancer UK and a volunteer for Cancer Research UK where he co-chairs a Patient and Public Involvement panel and represents the patient voice on research funding committees.

As a Lanarkshire resident Ally has, for the last 14 years, been treated for his cancer by NHS Lanarkshire and therefore brings that added perspective to the Board.

Cllr Michael Coyle

North Lanarkshire Council

Biography

Michael Joseph Coyle has been elected to North Lanarkshire Council since 2007. All through his previous working life he has been involved in the trade union movement.
He is married with two daughters.
Micheal’s appointment to the Lanarkshire Health Board is a new challenge in which he hopes to serve the board well.

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Cllr Eileen Logan

South Lanarkshire Council

Biography

Councillor Eileen Logan first elected 1980, currently Councillor for Clydesdale West, South Lanarkshire Council.

I have all round experience in all committees of the Council, and I have many outside interests which give me a broad spectrum on life.

I am looking forward to this new chapter in my ever-evolving career.

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Brian Moore

Non-Executive Director

Biography

Brian has had a 39 year local authority career with considerable experience of social care and social work services as a practitioner and senior manager. Brian qualified as a social worker in 1980.

In May 2017 he retired from the position of Chief Officer for Inverclyde Health and Social Care Partnership. Brian’s working career has been spent mainly in the West of Scotland but he has also worked for a period in Liverpool.

His management and leadership roles have provided considerable experience of organisational change, community engagement, service developments and improvement, partnership working and making best use of available resources. Brian has a strong conviction on the benefits to be had from the integration of health and social care and partnership working within the public sector and with its partners in the voluntary and private sectors.

Maureen Lees

Chair, Area Clinical Forum

Biography

Maureen joined NHS Lanarkshire in 1991 as a part of the dietetic department within Monklands Hospital. In 1995 she was appointed to one of four posts within the newly established community dietetic service. Maureen went on to lead the developing community service and for the past ten years has been Head of Service for the Lanarkshire Dietetic Service which includes Acute and Primary Care Services.

Maureen continues to work as a dietitian within NHS Lanarkshire’s tertiary eating disorder service.

She is chair of the Allied Health Professions Advisory Committee and chair of the Area Clinical Forum which provides clinical advice to the NHS Board.

Lesley McDonald

Non-Executive Whistleblowing Champion

Biography

Lesley graduated from Glasgow University in 1989 and worked as a solicitor in private practice in Glasgow before moving to the public sector by taking up a post as a solicitor for the then Comhairle nan Eilean in 1993.

Since her retirement in 2018, Lesley has become a volunteer with Clydesdale Foodbank and a legal services charity which represents people who may otherwise not obtain access to legal advice, reflecting her concern for the most vulnerable in society. In her role as carer for her father, she has gained first-hand experience of the challenges and opportunities of health and social care integration.

James Muir

Non-Executive Director

Biography

James Muir is a Chartered Accountant and experienced business leader with over 25 years’ experience in financial, operational, and strategic roles across a range of sectors including utilities, financial and outsourcing services.

James is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at V. Group, an industry leading provider of vessel management and marine services. He previously held senior roles within the V. Group as Commercial Director, Business Development Director and Operations Director as well as accounting and finance roles in private and public sector organisations.

Sylvia Stewart

Employee Director

Biography

Sylvia has been employed with NHS Lanarkshire since 2000 as a Specialist Biomedical Scientist within Pathology at Law Hospital, University Hospital Wishaw and University Hospital Monklands.

Sylvia has been a Staff Side/Partnership Representative for 10 years and has been involved in partnership working at local, regional and national level such as the Scottish Terms and Conditions Committee and Scottish Partnership Forum. She has been dedicated to the Trade Union Movement for many years and has served as the Unite NHS Lanarkshire Health Branch Chair as well as a National Executive Council Member of Unite the Union.

Sylvia is delighted to have been elected as NHS Lanarkshire’s Employee Director and Chair of Staff Side and she will work hard with our sister trade unions and professional organisations to serve our members, patients and staff across the Organisation, committed to partnership working, fairness and equality.

Jane Duffty

Non-Executive Director

Biography

Dr Jane Duffty is one of the Intensive Care Medicine Anaesthetists working in NHS Lanarkshire. Dr Duffty started working in University Hospital Hairmyres in 2011 and over the last 13 years has developed an interest in education, team working, patient safety and staff wellbeing. Dr Duffty’s working knowledge of NHS Lanarkshire will compliment her areas of interest to help support NHS Lanarkshire deliver ‘Our Health Together- Living Our Best Lives in Lanarkshire’.

This year, Dr Duffty took up the role of President of The Glasgow and West of Scotland Society of Anaesthetists. This reflects the high regard Dr Duffty is held in by her colleagues, both within NHS Lanarkshire and the wider West of Scotland.

Scott Haldane

Non-Executive Director

Biography

A Chartered Accountant by Profession, Scott has extensive experience as a Director of Finance in the NHS both North and South of the Border. Most recently, Scott has been the Interim Chief Executive at the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) pending his retirement in March 2025, having previously been the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) at CPFT from 2015 and, before that, as CFO at Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust.

Prior to taking up these roles down South, Scott was the Strategy and Business Development Director (Scotland) for ATOS IT Services (UK) Ltd and, before that, was the Director of Finance and Deputy Chief Executive at NHS National Services Scotland. Scott was elected as Chairman of the Healthcare Financial Management Association in 2005, a body representing the NHS Finance community across the UK, and was recognised as Public Sector Finance Director of the Year in 2006.

A Lanarkshire resident, Scott has also been involved with a number of Boards in a Non-Executive capacity, including currently as a Lay Governor of Glasgow Caledonian University. Prior to this, Scott has been Chair of Edinburgh Leisure, an ‘arm’s length body’ of the City of Edinburgh Council responsible for the management and running of the City’s Leisure and Sports estate, a lay member of the Court at the University of Stirling for 9 years, and a Trustee of a National Charity, Ambient Care, for 6 years.

Donald Reid

Non-Executive Director

Biography

Donald Reid DipBS FRICS MBA graduated from the Glasgow College of Building and Printing with a Diploma in Building Surveying and qualified as a Chartered Building Surveyor in 1988; subsequently being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1995. With over 35 years post qualified experience he has wide ranging capital project experience and has provided project management, development monitoring and building surveying services to banks and institutional property funds; commercial property investors; landlords and tenants; owner-occupiers; health trusts and local authorities.

Prior to joining with a former colleague to establish their own project management and building consultancy company in 2000, Donald spent over 10 years in charge of the building consultancy operations of local independent and international property consultancy firms. He has particular expertise in the healthcare sector and in strategic business planning and reorganisation management for large technology organisations.

Phillip Couser MBE

Board Member

Biography

Phillip Couser MBE has worked at senior levels in the NHS in Scotland since 2013.

He was appointed as the Director of Data Driven Innovation in Public Health Scotland (PHS) on its formation in 2020; before retiring from this post in July 2021, he led PHS’s initial data and digital contribution to the pandemic response.

Prior to PHS, Phillip was Director for Public Health and Intelligence in NHS National Services Scotland, leading both Information Services Division and Health Protection Scotland.

From both these roles he brings a strong interest in public health and a passion for data driven and digitally enabled transformation.

Phillip’s NHS career started in 2008 in the Northeast of England leading planning for NHS North of Tyne, a health economy with many similarities to Lanarkshire. From 2011 until moving back to Scotland in 2013, he managed a clinical directorate in Guy’s and St Thomas’ in London.

Prior to 2008, Phillip had an Army career, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Highlights included command of the Scottish Transport Regiment and the award of an MBE for leadership in national logistic planning for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Nauman Dar

Board Member

Biography

Nauman has dedicated his career to leveraging digital technologies and advancements to foster innovation, enhance operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. With a strong digital and business transformation foundation, he believes people and customers should always be at the heart of decision-making processes.

After graduating from Strathclyde University, in 2001, Nauman joined BT where he would spend 14 years in roles covering change, programme management and operations, as well as leading large service delivery teams to execute major change programmes.

In 2015, Nauman was appointed PMO Director, EMEA Professional Services at ARRIS Solutions, where he crafted a growth strategy for Professional Services. He then transitioned to Cigna Healthcare, in 2017, as Deputy Transformation Director & Head of PMO, where he spearheaded a digital transformation to establish a global operating model supported by a unified global platform.

In 2022, Nauman joined Deloitte as Director for Major Programmes, where he delivered transformational change and developed solutions to support client growth. Currently, Nauman is The Executive Director, Change and Data at Student Loans Company where he is responsible for identifying and implementing efficient and effective approaches to delivering change and continuous improvement at SLC to support customers, colleagues and shareholders.

Beyond his professional roles, Nauman is actively involved in various youth organisations and career mentoring networks, nurturing future industry leaders.

Nauman is very passionate about helping NHS Lanarkshire achieve their objectives and feels his experience can add value to the Board.

Colin Lee

Board Member

Biography

Colin Lee has been the Chief Executive of CEMVO Scotland since 2003 which is one of the leading national race equality organisations in Scotland. He brings to NHS Lanarkshire a wealth of experience and expertise in integrating race equality within organisational development processes.

He has worked within the Third Sector for over 25 years in areas which have included mental health, welfare and debt advice, housing and employment. This has provided him with wide knowledge and experience in various fields and in managing organisations and projects.

Colin is currently the Chair of the Scottish Court and Tribunal Service Equality Advisory Group and in 2011 was appointed the sole adviser to the Scottish Parliament Equal Opportunities Committee to help scrutinise the Scottish Government 2012-13 draft budget from a race / equalities perspective.

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Siobhan White

Board Member

Biography

Siobhan White is an Assistant Head for Learning, Teaching & Quality and Senior Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University, and has teaching interests and expertise in a variety of under-graduate, post-graduate and professional programmes.

She specialises in the subject areas of public sector accounting and internal/external auditing, and public sector financial management, having previous work experience as a government external auditor. She is also actively involved in researching all of the above topics and has presented and published a range of papers in these areas, both in the UK and overseas.

Siobhan is also a Chartered Public Finance Accountant, a previous Non-Executive Director of West of Scotland Housing Association/Chair of their Audit Committee, the previous Chair of the Audit & Governance Panel at South Ayrshire Council, a past national examiner for CIPFA/ACCA, and current Non-Executive Board Member for the Scottish Housing Regulator and Chair of their Audit & Risk Assurance Committee.

Siobhan brings her knowledge and experience of governance, risk, public finance and audit to the Board.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Colin Lauder

Interim Chief Executive and Director of Planning, Property and Performance

Biography

Colin was educated at Kelso High School, then gained a BSc in Astronomy & Astrophysics from St Andrews University and subsequently an MSc in Industrial Relations from Stirling University.

He joined NHS Scotland in 1987 through the National Management Training Scheme, and trained in the Borders and Glasgow. Colin then worked in a variety of management roles in NHS Lothian, NHS Greater Glasgow and the Scottish Government before joining NHS Lanarkshire’s planning directorate in 2009.

He is married with two grown-up children. Colin spends his Saturday afternoons in the winter refereeing rugby matches.

Professor S. Josephine Pravinkumar

Director of Public Health and Health Policy

Biography

Originally from Chennai, India, Josephine began her career in the UK in 1995 in the specialty of obstetrics & gynaecology before moving to pursue her ambition to work in public health.

She has a strong association with NHS Lanarkshire, having joined in 1999 to train in public health medicine. Following a period as a consultant with NHS Ayrshire & Arran, Josephine returned to Lanarkshire in 2009 and has worked with the health board as a consultant in public health medicine since then.

Chris Deighan

Medical Director

Biography

Chris has been corporate deputy medical director at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde since June 2019, providing clinical leadership on Board-wide issues.

He previously held the post of chief of medicine for the north sector in Glasgow between 2015 and 2019, where he provided leadership across a broad spectrum of clinical specialties and, prior to that, clinical director for renal services and the centre for integrative care from 2009 to 2015. He has been a consultant renal physician since 2000.

Chris was clinical lead for the GG&C clinical service review strategy: Moving Forward Together and during the peak of the pandemic was deputy medical director for NHS Louisa Jordan and was also responsible for setting up phlebotomy hubs across the acute sector to support virtual patient management.

Trudi Marshall

Director for Nurses, Midwives and the Allied Health Professions

Biography

Michael Breen

Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance

Biography

Michael joined Lanarkshire on 1 April 2024. Prior to this, Michael previously held the role of Director of Finance with NHS Golden Jubilee.

Michael previously held the role of Vice Principal at Ayrshire College and also served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of NHS Ayrshire & Arran, where he chaired the Audit and Risk Committee, held the role of Chair of the Integration Joint Board for Health and Social Care Services within East Ayrshire, and Chaired the Strategic Planning Group.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS - NON BOARD MEMBERS

Claire Rae

Chief Officer - Health and Social Care North Lanarkshire

Biography

Claire brings a wealth of experience in health and social care with her leadership expected to further enhance the partnership’s ongoing community services.

She joined NHS Lanarkshire in 2015, and in her previous role, Claire served as the head of health and social care at South Lanarkshire HSCP.

Claire’s fundamental aim is to improve the health, wellbeing, and quality of life for North Lanarkshire’s people and communities.

Former positions include board’s head of the Physiotherapy Service, and physiotherapy manager at University Wishaw Hospital.

Jacqui Jones

Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Human Resources

Biography

Jacqui joined NHS Lanarkshire on 1 July 2023 and is a highly experienced HR professional, manager and leader who has worked at Director level in NHS Scotland, local government, and at a senior level in the Civil Service. Jacqui was previously the Director of HR and Workforce Development for NHS National Services Scotland and Public Health Scotland.

Jacqui has specific expertise in situations involving major change management in NHS Scotland, local and central government, and in designing and delivering programmes and policies involving multiple stakeholders. Jacqui chairs and leads a number of national projects and is the Chair of the NHS Scotland HR Directors Group.

Donald Wilson

Director of Information and Digital

Biography

Donald took up the post of Director of Information and Digital Technology within NHS Lanarkshire in February 2013.

Donald has worked in a variety of roles over the past 30 years and brings extensive leadership experience from leading public sector teams across information management, information technology and digital. During his time in NHS Lanarkshire Donald has lead the implementation of a major IT programmes across primary and secondary care.

Donald started his career as an apprentice software engineer within the aerospace industry and has worked for a number of different technology companies including Marconi Instruments, GEC Ferranti and Motorola. He started working with the NHS in Scotland in 1997 initially as an IM&T Support Officer, and then an IM&T Manager before moving into general management.

Donald was educated at Edinburgh Napier University where he gained a BSc in Information Systems and later an MBA.

He has a keen interest in research and innovation utilising digital to help transform the delivery of health and care services.

Donald is married with two children and in his spare time enjoys playing golf and following Dunfermline Athletic.

Calvin Brown

Director of Communications

Biography

Calvin graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a first-class BA Honours degree in Accounting. He went on to study journalism and worked as a reporter in England and Scotland before moving into public relations with South Lanarkshire Council. He started with the NHS in 2003 as Communications Manager for Lanarkshire Primary Care NHS Trust. He worked as Acting Head of Communications for NHS Lanarkshire from June 2016 before being appointed Director of Communications in 2017. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Russell Coulthard

Director of Acute Services

Biography

Soumen Sengupta

Director of Health and Social Care for South Lanarkshire

Biography

Soumen Sengupta is the Director of Health and Social Care for South Lanarkshire.

Alongside being Chief Officer for the South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, he fulfils the role of:

Director of Social Work Services for South Lanarkshire Council, with strategic responsibility for the Children and Justice Services.
Director of Primary Care for NHS Lanarkshire, providing strategic leadership for pan-Lanarkshire Primary Care services.

His appointment as Director followed an extensive career in public health and in health and social care management; and his having led strategic transformation programmes at local, regional and national levels.

Soumen has a MSc in Public Health from the University of Aberdeen and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde.

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BOARD SECRETARY

Allison Mclean

Interim Board Secretary

Biography

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