GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting with Jagtar Singh OBE, Chair, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust | 28 October 2022

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI will host these facilitated, weekly virtual meetings to give NHS non-executive directors an opportunity to share their concerns, challenges and ideas as we rethink the future of health and social care.

The goal is to collectively think about the role NEDs play as part of the controlling mind of their organisations, to discuss immediate safeguarding issues and to ensure we all learn from this experience to assure better outcomes for citizens in the future. If you would like to join this meeting, please email events@good-governance.org.uk.

ABOUT

Chair: Usman Khan, Special Advisor, Good Governance Institute

In conversation with Jagtar Singh OBE, Chair, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

‘Melting the glacier: How to (finally) deliver on the inequalities agenda’

About Jagtar Singh OBE

Jagtar Singh was appointed Trust Chair in September 2014. With over 40 years’ strategic leadership experience in senior public service and national roles, Jagtar brings a wealth of expertise to the NHS including 30 years in the Fire and Rescue Service and 14 years in non-executive roles in the Ambulance Service and latterly in Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Jagtar was Acting Chief Fire Officer in Bedford and Luton Fire and Rescue Service and rose from firefighter to Divisional Commander in the West Midlands Service before moving to Bedfordshire as Deputy Chief Fire Officer.

In 2003, Jagtar received both the Public Servant of the Year Award at the Asian Achievement Awards ceremony in Birmingham, and was awarded an OBE for his work on equality and diversity in the Fire Service.

In 2004, he was seconded to the role of Lead Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services working for the Department for Communities and Local Government, and led on embedding Equality and Diversity in the Fire Service. After taking his retirement in 2006, Jagtar was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in the East of England Ambulance Service.

Also Jagtar has served as a Trustee for the Healing Foundation and in Employment Opportunities for Disabled People, Jagtar also served on Bedford Race Equality Council.

Jagtar has was appointed Chair of Bedfordshire Police Audit Committee 2013.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation and is open to all NHS non-executives directors, chairs and associate non-executive directors of NHS providers. Others may attend by special invitation.

For further details, comments, questions and suggestions please contact: events@good-governance.org.uk