Trust Board Members

Please see below Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) trust board members.

Malcolm Burch - trust board chair

Malcolm BurchMalcolm has had a career that spans universities, local government, policing and the NHS. Throughout his career, he has been focused on involving the public in service provision and supporting better performance and improved outcomes.

In the NHS, he was a non-executive director in Lincolnshire's mental health trust for six years and before that spent four years as a commissioner as part of a Primary Care Trust in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire.

He has three degrees, including an MBA from the University of Birmingham, and works as the chief executive to the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner. He has lived and raised his family in the county for 15 years.

Andrew Morgan - group chief executive for LCHS and ULHT

Andrew Morgan August 2022.jpgAndrew has worked for the NHS since 1982. From August 2023 Andrew became the Group Chief Executive for LCHS and ULHT. He joined United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust as their Chief Executive in June 2019. Prior to this, Andrew was the Chief Executive of Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust from June 2014 to June 2019.

He has been a Chief Executive since 2004 and has held Chief Executive posts at East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, NHS Norfolk and Waveney, NHS Bedfordshire and NHS Harrow. His earlier NHS career included a range of director posts at NHS organisations around the country, including in commissioning, performance management, strategy and service improvement. Andrew is married and has a grown up daughter.

Professor Karen Dunderdale - executive chief nurse

Professor Karen Dunderdal

Karen has held board level roles as a Chief Nurse, Chief Operating Officer, Deputy CEO and acting CEO. In addition, she held the role of vice chair of her local hospice for a number of years. Her more recent role as director of nursing was at Walsall Healthcare Trust where her leadership supported the Trust achieve Outstanding for Caring. Karen qualified as a registered nurse in 1991 and her clinical experience has been in cardiology. She became a cardiac nurse specialist developing cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure services. She has a PhD in Health Related Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure from York University, has contributed substantially to the development of cardiac nursing, and raised expectations nationally within the nursing profession. In 2017 Karen joined the National nursing team at NHS Improvement working for Dr Ruth May, Chief Nursing Officer for England contributing to the wider nursing and patient experience agenda. Karen is passionate about delivering high quality fundamental nursing care.

 

Claire Low - Director of people and innovation

Claire Low - director of people

Claire joined the Trust in October 2023 in an interim role alongside her role at United Lincolnshire Hosptials NHS Trust where she has worked as deputy director of people and organisational development since December 2021 before starting work in the director position in October 2022. She has a long career spanning over 20 years of working in people services within the NHS and acute trusts and has worked in operational HR, recruitment, transformational projects and deputy director roles, and more recently acted as Director of People at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Trust for a period of two years. Claire is passionate about the people agenda and investment in training and development of staff, she graduated from her part-time MBA, which she completed under the apprenticeship scheme at her previous Trust. Claire is also a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and is embedding a ‘just and learning’ as part of the transformation agenda for the People Directorate.

Sam Wilde - director of finance and business intelligence

Sam Wilde

Sam joined LCHS as interim director of finance and strategy on June 1, 2018, having worked as associate director of finance for Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust.

Sam graduated in 1996 having studied finance and accountancy before going on to complete an MBA at Durham University. He has worked in the NHS for six years interspersed with experience of working in the private sector for Rolls Royce PLC and Astra Zeneca.

 

Dr Anne-Louise Schokker - medical director

Dr Anne-Louise Schokker

Dr Anne-Louise Schokker is the Medical Director and a Consultant Geriatrician. After completing her medical degree and post graduate training in London, she moved to the East Midlands as a consultant in 2007 where she gained extensive clinical experience in general medicine and geriatrics across secondary care and community settings. Her leadership journey began as a junior doctor and she has been passionate about compassionate, clinical leadership since. She has held divisional clinical director and deputy medical director roles where she delivered turn around improvements in nonelective care, successfully transformed integrated services across providers and advanced the quality agenda. She is also a regional clinical associate for the NHSE ECIST team. She lives locally in Lincolnshire with her husband, daughter and extended family.

Julie Frake-Harris – chief operating officer

Julie Frake-Harris

Julie joined LCHS as Interim Chief Operating Officer (COO) in July 2023, and recently became Interim Chief Operating Officer at ULHT alongside this role. Julie has worked in the NHS for over 25 years, during this time she has had the privilege to delivery services across London, Cambridge, Peterborough, and Kent. She has a passion for integrated community and mental health services and held COO roles in community and mental health settings and in an acute trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She held her first director role championing forensic and integrated prison services before moving to Cambridge and Peterborough to be the architect of the Neighbourhood Team model for Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT). She has held system leadership roles and worked to develop with partners services closest to home across Kent and CPFT. She is committed to operational delivery for the communities we serve.

She lives in Cambridgeshire with her family and 4 dogs.

Ian Orrell

Ian Orrelll

Ian joined LCHS in February 2023, on an interim basis. Ian has a wealth of experience in the public sector, particularly with large and complex councils. He has experience of working within senior corporate leadership teams to help reshape and deliver quality frontline adult and children social care services, as well as delivering professional support services.

Ian also has over 30 years as a qualified accountant and previous experience in non-executive roles where partnership approaches were taken to improve service provision.

 

Gail Shadlock

Image of Gail ShadlockGail is a highly experienced director with a professional background in human resources and organisational development and extensive general and project management experience working in the UK and abroad. Gail has worked both as an executive director and as a non-executive director and has led and contributed to significant transformational change across the following sectors; private sector – FTSE 100 and FTSE 350 (major projects include mergers, acquisitions and flotation of a company on the London Stock Exchange); public sector – NHS, police, local government; third/not for profit sector – charity supporting people with learning disabilities and a housing association with a national footprint.

 

Murray Macdonald

Murray Macdonald Murray Macdonald has had a varied career across a number of sectors. He started in the commercial leisure sector managing a number of venues, before moving into regeneration and project management with local authorities.

Currently, Murray is Chief Executive of Boston Mayflower Housing Association, where he is responsible for all operational aspects of the company including housing management, asset management, regeneration, older peoples’ services and development.

Murray is an experienced Non-Executive Director, with posts currently also held with Lincolnshire Community Voluntary Service and Speedwell Homes.

Jim Connolly

Jim Connelly

Jim has a had a varied career in the NHS as a nurse, working in a range of clinical, managerial and executive roles. He worked as a Director of Nursing and was the National Director for Continuing Healthcare with NHS England. In addition he works with the Care Quality Commission as a specialist advisor on governance. Prior to joining LCHS he was a Non Executive Director at Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group and is supporting the vaccination programme as a vaccinator at the Meres Clinic in Grantham.

 

Rebecca Brown MBE

Rebecca Brown portrait.jpg

Rebecca Brown began her career in the NHS as a nurse in 1989.

From 2012 to 2016 Rebecca was Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Northampton General Hospital.  In 2016 Rebecca took on the role of Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive at Kettering General Hospital. In 2018 She joined Leicesters Hospitals as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive. She took on the role of Chief Executive in early 2020. Rebecca successfully lead the Trust during the pandemic, with Leicester Hospitals leading nationally on research and treatment of Covid.

Rebecca has played an integral role in the development of wider system and partnership working within the NHS and latterly with social care, local government and the independent sector.

In 2000, Rebecca was awarded the MBE by Her Majesty the Queen for Services to Nursing.

Rebecca also holds a Non Executive role for ULHT.

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