Technical / Appointments – March 2022

With the formal launch of integrated care boards due in July, the new integrated bodies have started to appoint chief finance officers. As Healthcare Finance went to press, only a handful had been confirmed, and with the setting up of the bodies still undergoing Parliamentary approval, these are all designate appointments.
• Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board has named Sarah Stansfield (pictured) as chief finance officer. She is currently director of outcome-based contracting and deputy chief executive at Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Group, and was previously executive director of finance at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• Zoe Pietrzak has been appointed director of finance at Suffolk and North East Essex ICB. She has been director of operational finance and deputy regional director of finance at NHS England (East of England) for two years.
• Jonathan Webb has been appointed director of finance at the West Yorkshire ICB. He is currently chief finance officer and deputy chief officer at Wakefield CCG, where he has worked since May 2018.
• Claire Wilson, currently chief finance officer at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, has been appointed director of finance at Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. She has held roles at local, regional and national level, and is an HFMA vice president.
• Surrey Heartlands ICB has named Matthew Knight as chief finance officer. He is currently chief finance officer at Surrey Heartlands Clinical Commissioning Group.

 Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, was awarded an OBE for services to the NHS. Mr McGee held finance director posts in the North West of England during the 1990s and 2000s, before moving into general management.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde director of finance Mark White has been appointed chief financial officer at the University of Aberdeen. Mr White, who has been the health board’s finance director since 2015, is expected to take up his new post in May. Before joining the NHS, he was a director in PwC’s risk assurance practice.

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has appointed Jim Boyle (pictured) director of finance. Mr Boyle worked for Stirling Council, where he has been chief finance officer for the past 10 years. He has served as chair of the Scottish local government directors of finance group, and led the group’s education portfolio for the past five years. He said: ‘I am absolutely delighted to be joining NHS Education for Scotland as director of finance. I have long been aware of the vital role that NES plays in training Scotland’s health and care workforce and in ensuring that those skills keep pace with the evolving needs of our country. I am also aware of NES’s pivotal role in delivering digital services to support that workforce and in helping to reshape other areas of our health and care services. I am looking forward to being part of that journey.’

The St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospitals Group has appointed a new senior leadership team, formed following the decision for St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust to operate as a group. The trusts remain separate. The team includes Andrew Grimshaw as group chief finance officer. He joined the St George’s trust as chief financial officer in 2017, and was also the trust’s deputy chief executive. There are two deputy chief finance officers – Tom Shearer at St George’s and Carol McLaughlin at Epsom and St Helier.

Pippa Moger has been named chief finance officer as part of the new single leadership team at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. With more than 19 years’ experience in NHS finance, 12 at deputy and director level, Ms Moger has worked in regulator, commissioning and provider sectors. She joined Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in June 2013 as director of finance and business development. In October 2017, she became finance director of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, before the two merged to form Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in April 2020.

Paul Goodfield (pictured) is to retire at the end of the month after 43 years in NHS finance, including 30 as an HFMA member. He said: ‘It’s been a great journey and very enjoyable professional career supported by the HFMA. Personal highlights have been USA/UK exchange programme in 1999/2000, working on the accounting and audit committees and pre-accounts planning workshops and other HFMA activities.’ He enjoyed ‘giving something back to NHS finance’ through the Future-Focused Finance value-maker and finance and clinical educator roles, as well as supporting the graduate training scheme, mentoring and tutoring through the HFMA Academy. ‘I hope to continue
to be active in retirement through voluntary roles and interests. Having competed my 12th London Marathon last year, there may be a few more races left in me yet, including the Great North Run in September.