GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting with David Astley OBE | 15 July 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: Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

In conversation with David Astley OBE, Chair, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

‘How it all fits together: Ambulance trusts – pinch points and pressures!’

• What key takeaways do NHS NEDs need to know about ambulance services?
• Partnership, patient-focused emergency care•Pinch points and pressures for ambulance services
• Future potential, and contributing to better population health management
• Lying in wait -the handover dilemma
• Ambulance trusts and managing multiple partnerships

About David

David was awarded an O.B.E in 2006 for services to the NHS, has held a number of very senior roles in the NHS including Chief Executive of East Kent University Hospitals NHS Trust between 1999 and 2006 and Chief Executive of St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust between 2006 and 2011. He joined the NHS in 1974.

From 2011 to 2015 David was Chief-Tertiary Hospitals Group of the Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. On return to the UK and retirement from full time Executive duties, David served as a non-executive director of Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust between 2016 and 2018. He was appointed as Chair of South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust in September 2018. David is also a Trustee of Yoakley Care, a charity based in Margate, Kent, who manages alms houses and a care home.

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