Board of Directors
The Board of Directors oversees the work of our Trust and is responsible for ensuring the quality and safety of healthcare services, education training, and research delivered by the Trust.
The Trust must apply the principles and standards of clinical governance set out by the Department of Health, the Care Quality Commission, and other relevant NHS bodies. The Board ensures the Trust adheres to those principles and that we exercise our functions effectively, efficiently, and economically.
Our Trust Board comprises the Chair, Chief Executive, Non-Executive Directors (NEDS) and Executive Directors. The Chief Executive is the accountable officer and the Executive Directors are responsible for the day-to-day management of their respective divisions.
Chair
Graham Ward - Chair
Graham joined the Board in December 2015.
He took over from Claire Ward as the Trust's Acting Chair in May 2024 before he was appointed its Chair on a substantive basis in February 2025.
Graham is a Chartered Accountant who worked in the accountancy profession and industry before moving into management consultancy where he worked for 16 years with PwC and Deloitte as a senior director.
Graham was then appointed as commercial director at the University of Nottingham, a position he held from September 2004 until October 2013.
Within the NHS Graham was appointed as a non-executive director of Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust in November 2004, a role he held for 16 months, before joining Nottingham City PCT/CCG as a non-executive director from March 2007 until November 2015. More recently Graham joined Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Foundation Trust as a non-executive director in August 2019.
Graham now runs his own consultancy business and also holds positions as a board member (vice chair) with Acis Group (a housing association) and as a non-executive director with Mission Room Limited, a technology company based in Nottingham.
Chief Executive
David Selwyn - Acting Chief Executive
In May 2024, David became the Trust’s Acting Chief Executive tasked with strengthening the Sherwood Forest Hospitals clinical voice within the healthcare system.
He continues to be actively involved as a clinician, dealing with the competing demands of anaesthesia and adult critical care.
Before beginning his leadership journey, David was a regional advisor for eight years, an inaugural-intensive Care Medicine (ICM) Training Programme Director and a Faculty Tutor.
David was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) in May 2019, tasked with establishing and developing CPOC as a truly cross-organisational, multidisciplinary initiative led by the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA), facilitating cross-organisational working on perioperative care for patient benefit. He has been recently appointed to a second term as CPOC Director.
Prior to becoming Director of CPOC, David was the Chairman of the RCoA Clinical Directors’ Network – a national network of medical leaders in anaesthesia, intensive care and pain management. He continues to be a member of College council and representative on a number of the major College quality, safety and professional standards committees and also lectures locally, regionally and nationally on medical leadership.
David was appointed Medical Director in December 2019. He was previously the Deputy Medical Director at Nottingham University Hospitals. He has also been appointed as the Trust’s Chief Clinical Information Officer.
In August 2022, David was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive.
Executive Directors
Phil Bolton - Chief Nurse
RN, MSc, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences
Phil was appointed as Chief Nurse in May 2022. Phil previously worked in Trauma/Orthopaedics, Urgent and Emergency Care; Geriatrics, Stroke and Neurology; and as Hospital Matron at Newark. He later became Deputy Chief Nurse until September 2020 when he moved to University Hospitals of Derby and Burton as Director of Nursing and then Interim Chief Nurse.
Phil is committed to putting a strong focus on the fundamentals of care and the key things that matter to our patients and their family members, he also wants us treat each other as we would like to be treated – to be kind, to listen and to be inclusive.
Sally Brook Shanahan - Director of Corporate Affairs
Sally Brook Shanahan joined Sherwood Forest Hospitals as the Trust’s Director of Corporate Affairs in May 2023.
Sally joined the Trust from Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) where her background as a solicitor, her wealth of public service, and her strengths in corporate governance will serve her – and the Trust – well in her new role.
Sally is the Trust’s Executive lead for Information Governance, Risk Assurance and Community Involvement. She also oversees the work of Trust’s Corporate Secretariat.
Rachel Eddie - Chief Operating Officer
Rachel Eddie joined us as Chief Operating Officer in July 2022 from Nottingham University Hospitals.
Rachel is an experienced senior leader, working at board-level, having worked as Chief Operating Officer on an interim basis on two occasions prior to joining Sherwood, with shared responsibility for leadership, development of strategy, planning, performance and governance.
She is committed to quality and safety, patient and staff experience and has a record of delivering organisational improvements and results through compassionate leadership.
Her existing network and relationships, locally and regionally, will help strengthen Sherwood Forest Hospitals' place within the new environment of the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System and increased collaboration with partners and stakeholders.
Richard Mills - Chief Financial Officer
Richard was appointed as Chief Financial Officer in June 2022. Richard previously served as the Trust’s Deputy Chief Financial Officer since April 2019 before becoming its Interim Chief Financial Officer in October 2021.
Richard has over 15 years’ experience in NHS finance and, among his other portfolios, is responsible for overseeing the financial sustainability of the Trust, where he takes an active role in system-wide partnership working as we move into the new era of statutory integrated care systems.
Dr. Simon Roe - Chief Medical Officer
Dr Simon Roe stepped-up to become the Trust's Acting Medical Director in May 2024.
Full profile coming soon.
Robert Simcox - Chief People Officer
BA, MA, FCIPD
Robert has been with Sherwood Forest Hospitals as its Deputy Director of People since April 2016 before he became the Trust's Director of People in June 2022.
Robert now leads the Trust’s People Directorate, which supports the Trust’s workforce to be the best they can be, along with leading system-wide collaboration regarding the people agenda.
Robert continues to oversee the work that has helped Sherwood Forest Hospitals to be named as the best acute hospital to work for across the East Midlands in the National NHS Staff Survey each year since 2018.
Non-Executive Directors
Steve Banks - Non-Executive Director
Steve was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in December 2021.
He has been a Non-Executive Director at the Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust for six years, ending in January 2022, and was previously a Governor at that Trust. He is also Chair of The Tinnitus Clinic Ltd and Chair of Governors at Nottingham High School.
His previous posts include Director of Professional Standards and Superintendent Pharmacist, IT Director, and a Director of HR all at Boots UK.
Steve’s first degree was in Pharmacy and he has since completed an MBA at Nottingham University. He has lived in Nottinghamshire with his family for nearly 30 years.
Barbara Brady - Non-Executive Director
Barbara is a registered general nurse and a specialist in Public Health, who was Director of Public Health for Nottinghamshire until March 2018.
Barbara lives in Newar and combines her Non-Executive position on the Board with occasional consultancy work for the Local Government Association, which supports the Care and Health Improvement programme with local authorities and partners across England.
Richard Cotton - Non-Executive Director
Full profile coming soon.
Manjeet Gill - Non-Executive Director
Manjeet Gill joined the Trust in November 2019. Manjeet has a range of Board and chief executive-level experience across local government and the NHS. She is passionate about health equalities, community engagement and organisational development to achieve the full potential of people in delivering excellent services.
Manjeet has experience of system change as strategic commissioner, mental health and local government services including social care and housing. Her transformation experience includes improving corporate and partnership governance and delivery, estate reconfiguration, leadership and cultural change, performance turnaround and customer and digital strategies for new models of service delivery.
Her previous roles as a NED have been at a Mental Health Foundation Trust and a national Charity responsible for developing community and voluntary sector groups.
Manjeet has advised on national policies as society of local authority chief officers policy lead for housing and leadership and currently for health and well-being. She is also currently a government appointed NED appointed on the independent office for police conduct.
Lisa Maclean - Non-Executive Director
Full profile coming soon.
Neil McDonald - Non-Executive Director
Neil has lived in Nottinghamshire since 1999 and joined the Trust Board as Non-Executive Director in December 2023. He has 38 years’ experience in the rail industry, having started out as an engineering apprentice.
After 27 years in engineering, he moved into general management as Managing Director of the Industrial Business Unit of EWS Railways/DeutscheBahn (DB), followed by a period as Head of Sales. In 2015, he became the Chief Operating Officer of the first heavy haul Railway in the UAE, a joint venture between DB and Etihad Rail. For five years, he was a Non-Executive Director of the Railway Safety and Standards Board, representing freight members.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Board of Governors for West Nottinghamshire College where has been a member of the Senior Postholder and Governance Committee and Chair of the Audit Committee.
He has an MBA from Nottingham Trent University and brings 20 years’ executive management experience to the Trust Board.
Andrew Rose-Britton - Non-Executive Director
Andrew was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in April 2022. He has an MBA in Finance from Nottingham University and is a Chartered Accountant.
His recent experience in the healthcare sector has been as a Board Trustee of the mental health charities MHM and Waymarks.
Within the NHS he was a Non-Executive Director of Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust from 2004-2008, where he chaired the Audit committee and Finance committee at various times.
Commercially he was Finance Director and Company Secretary of a retail pharmacy from 1995 to 2012. He has lived in Nottinghamshire since 1988.
Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam - Associate Non-Executive Director (Research and Innovation)
Full profile coming soon.Contact the Directors
You can contact the Executive and Non-Executive Directors through the Trust Secretary on 01623 622515, extension 3245.
