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HSC Review Team

 
         
         
 

John Compton

 

John Compton was appointed Chief Executive Designate of the Health and Social Care Board in January 2009. John trained as a Social Worker and was educated at Queens University Belfast and the University of Ulster. He has also spent time at the Federal Executive Institute in the USA. Previous posts include Chief Executive of the South Eastern Trust from its inception in April 2006. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive of the Down Lisburn Trust, and was Chief Executive to the Sperrin Lakeland Trust for over a year.

 
         
 

Pamela McCreedy

 

Pamela McCreedy is Project Lead for the Review of Health and Social Care NI. Pamela is seconded from the South Eastern HSC Trust, where she has been in post since 2009, with responsibility for Performance Improvement, Commissioning and Information Management. Prior to that she was the Director of Public Sector Advisory in KPMG, with specific responsibility for health. She trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG and since 1998 specialised in public sector audit and advisory

 
         
     

Other members of the Project support team are:

Angela Hodkinson
Elaine Hunter
Seamus Carey
Ffiona Dunbar
Jonathan Houston
Maria Higgins

 
         

       
 

HSC Review Panel

   
       
 

Professor Chris Ham CBE took up his post as Chief Executive of The King's Fund in April 2010. He has been professor of health policy and management at the University of Birmingham, England, since 1992. From 2000 to 2004 he was seconded to the Department of Health where he was director of the strategy unit, working with Ministers on NHS reform. He was also a non-executive director on the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust from 2008-2010. Chris is the author of 20 books and numerous articles about health policy and management. His work focuses on the use of research evidence to inform policy and management decisions in areas such as health care reform, chronic care, primary care, integrated care, performance improvement and leadership. Chris has advised the WHO and the World Bank and has served as a consultant to governments in a number of countries. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of the Royal College of General Practitioners, an honorary professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a companion of the Institute of Healthcare Management, and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey.

 

Professor Chris Ham CBE

       
 

Dr Ian Rutter OBE has been a General Practitioner for 24 years with the Westcliffe Practice in Shipley, Yorkshire previously First Wave and Total Purchasing Practice. Until January 2006, he was Chief Executive of North Bradford Primary Care Trust, a Three Star Trust having previously won the Prime Minister's Award for excellence and which won the PCT of the Year in 2006. He is a former Clinical Advisor in the Policy and Strategy Directorate of the Department of Health and at present National Deputy Clinical Director for Primary Care. Former Joint Chief Executive Officer of Airedale PCT and North Bradford PCT, he has also worked as an associate of the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit and has worked at a senior level within the Department of Health and on committees such as Payment by Results. He retains an ongoing clinical commitment and is at present working part time as the International Faculty Lead for IHI on the Triple Aim Program.

 

Dr Ian Rutter OBE

       
 

Professor Deirdre Heenan is Provost and Dean of Academic Development at the University of Ulster's Magee campus. She is a highly respected researcher, author, lecturer and broadcaster and has published extensively in national and international journals. She is a co founder and former co director of the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, a key statistical resource for policy makers, academics and students. She has published widely on the delivery of health and social care and models of devolution. She is a board member of Ilex the urban regeneration company in Londonderry.

 

Professor Deirdre Heenan

       
 

Paul Simpson is a retired senior civil servant with extensive experience of working on policy issues in government. Paul spent much of his senior career working in the Department of Health and Social Services with responsibility for governance and accountability, performance management and organisational reform. As Chief Executive of the Health and Social Services Executive and then as a Deputy Secretary in the Department, he had responsibility for overseeing the work of four Health Boards and 19 Health Trusts. Before his retirement he was responsible for local government reform and planning and environmental policy in the Department of the Environment.

 

Paul Simpson

       
 

Mark Ennis is Executive Chair of SSE Ireland, which operates four businesses across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland including Airtricity, Ireland's fastest-growing energy supply utility; Airtricity Utility Solutions, Ireland's leading street lighting contractor; SSE Renewables, the largest renewable energy developer in Ireland; and SSE Wind Generation, the largest renewable energy generator in Ireland. He was appointed CEO of Airtricity NI Ltd in 2003 in addition to heading up the company's Retail Business in Ireland until 2007. An Economic Honours Graduate of Queens University of Belfast, with an Open University MBA, Mark has specific responsibility for SSE's Public and Regulatory Affairs in Ireland.

 

Mark Ennis