Qualifications: The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy – CIPFA
Experience
An Executive Director of Finance in the NHS for over 20 Years, holding many portfolios including Finance, Performance, Information/ IMT, Procurement and Estates and Facilities.
A NHS leader in some of the most complex health economies in the UK with the delivery of key targets/objectives and strategies:
- Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Key Skills and Achievements include
- Financial Turnaround across four acute sites
- Merger of four NHS Acute Trusts
- Major Service Reconfiguration
- Embedding of Key Financial Governance
- Establishing financial stability and the delivery of performance and quality.
Main Focus for the coming year
I am passionate about the NHS and a strong supporter of its core values.
I believe I am ideally experienced to support Bridgewater Foundation Trust on its journey of integration with Warrington and Halton Foundation Trust and the financial and service challenges faced by both organisations.
Personal
Bob was born in Warrington and remained living there for over 50 years before relocating to Wakefield/Leeds and then to Cardiff returning on retirement to East Cheshire.