Speakers

David has a portfolio of responsibilities which include being a Non Executive Director of the Department for International Development and of the Ministry of Justice. He is a visiting Professor of the Cass Business School and a Fellow of the Ashridge Business School and Sunningdale Institute. He is also an associate of the Institute for Government. 

Earlier in his career he was Head of Marketing for the Dulux brand  before going on to be Managing Director of a European Business and then CEO of Uniqema, a Global ICI business.  He also spent a year and a half working in the Cabinet office.  He has co-authored a book called The Extra Mile on the theme of how to engage your people to win and is co-author of the MacLeod Report to Government called Engaging for Success.

After qualifying in Medicine at Birmingham University in 1983, I trained in Histopathology.  I had an academic training, completing a research doctorate in renal pathology in 1990, and then worked as an NHS consultant in Warwick Hospital and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. Latterly I specialised in bowel cancer and became pathology lead for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme pilot.

Following a variety of clinical management roles I became Managing Director of St Cross Hospital in Rugby, my first Board level role.  During that time I led an Acute Services Review in Coventry and Warwickshire, and in 2007 I joined the first cohort of the new West Midlands Aspiring Chief Executive Programme.

In Sept 2007, I moved to Kettering General Hospital as Chief Executive, giving up my clinical career after 24 years as a doctor. After a rigorous quality improvement programme KGH achieved Foundation Trust status in November 2008.  In August 2010 I moved back across the midlands to take on the role of Chief Executive of Heart of England Foundation Trust, the largest acute Trust in the West Midlands region.

My particular interests are the future configuration of district hospitals, local stakeholder and public engagement, and the development of medical leadership.

Dr Julia Parfitt undertook her medical training at Southampton University qualifying in 1986. Following a medical rotation she went on to specialise in Anaesthetics passing her FRCA in 1994 and then obtaining a diploma in administrative management.. She has worked in Southampton and Portsmouth before becoming an Associate specialist in Anaesthetics in Winchester in 2001. Since then she has been responsible for the development of a successful clinical audit programme in the Anaesthetic department and has been deputy chair of the Trust Clinical Audit Committee for the last 3 years. She took over as Clinical Governance lead for Anaesthetics and Surgery in 2008 and Associate Medical Director for Patient Safety and Quality in April 2010. She has led the implementation of the Global Trigger Tool in Winchester and has undertaken regular mortality reviews since 2008. Other interests include Obstetric Anaesthesia and raising 4 children!

Joe Rafferty is currently Chief Executive of NHS Central Lancashire. The organisation has an annual commissioning budget of £750M for a resident population of 480,000 people across a mixed geography of 450 sq miles.