Meet the Partners

Our Partnership is made up of an Executive Board and Leads from all nine areas in the Cheshire and Merseyside footprint:

The Board

• Alan Yates – Chair
• Jackie Bene – Partnership Chief Officer
• Bill Gregory – Interim Director of Finance
• Kieran Murphy – Clinical Lead
• Jan Ledward – Chief Officer, NHS Liverpool CCG
• Sarah O’Brien – Chief Officer, NHS St Helens CCG
• Clare Watson – Chief Officer, NHS South Cheshire, NHS Vale Royal, NHS Eastern
• Dr Raj Kumar – GP lead
• Simon Barber – Chief Executive, North West Boroughs Partnership NHS FT
• Professor Steven Broomhead – Chief Executive, Warrington Borough Council
• Kath O’Dwyer – Chief Executive, Cheshire East Council
• Ben Wright – Director of Strategy
• Dave Sweeney – Implementation Lead
• Linda Buckley – Director of Strategic Transformation and Locality Lead (C&M)
• Ann Bracegirdle – Acting Delivery and Improvement Director (C&M)
• Professor Melanie Sirotkin – Centre Director, Public Health England
• Gerald Meehan (GM) – C&M Health and Care Partnership Advisor
• Warren Escadale, Chief Executive, Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW)

Place Leads

• Mark Palethorpe – Cheshire East
• Sarah O’Brien – St Helens
• Jan Ledward – Liverpool
• Dianne Johnson – Knowsley
• David Parr – Halton
• Andy Davies – Warrington
• Simon Banks – Healthy Wirral
• Fiona Taylor – Sefton
• Delyth Curtis – Cheshire West

Programme Leads

• Janelle Holmes – Palliative/End of Life Care
• Louise Shepherd – Women’s & Children’s
• Liz Bishop – Cancer
• Kathryn Thompson – Women’s and Children’s
• Ann Marr – Acute Sustainability
• Sarah O’Brien – Diabetes
• Andy Davies – Urgent Care
• Sheena Cumiskey – Mental Health and LD Sustainability
• Terry Whalley – At scale lead
• Jon Develing – Population Health
• Hayley Citrine – Neuroscience
• Anthony Leo – GP Forward View
• Jane Tomkinson – Cardiovascular Disease