GGI National NHS NED Development Programme: Peer to Peer Weekly Meeting with Dr Catriona McMahon | 1 April 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

Host: Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan, Chief Executive, Good Governance Institute

Chair: Dr Usman Khan, GGI Special Advisor, Good Governance Institute

In Conversation with: Dr Catriona McMahon, Chair, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust

‘Good Governance in times of crisis… two years on’

It has been two years since we started the GGI National NHS NED Development Programme and there has been a real appetite for them to continue. In this week’s meeting, we bring back Dr Catriona McMahon, who spoke at the very first webinar back in early 2020.

The GGI NHS NED development programme was instigated as a response to the unprecedented challenge of the first national lockdown in March 2020 and the associated impact on the NHS and Board Governance. The aim was to provide a space for Chairs and NEDs to share knowledge and exchange views as they sought to meet the multiple challenges brought on by Covid 19. Back then we started with an intention and an open agenda with Catriona kindly joining with fellow NED Anita Day, Professor Andrew Corbett-Nolan and Dr Usman Khan to set out a framework for the meetings. This second anniversary meeting will be a time for us all to reflect and discuss collectively on the previous two years.

• How has the role of the NED changed over the two years of the Covid pandemic?
• How has the role of the Board changed over the two years of the Covid pandemic?
• How has engagement for NEDs evolved over the last two years and what should we be thinking about going forward?
• What advice would you give yourself from two years ago about good governance in an age of Covid?

About Catriona

Catriona is a physician who worked in the NHS for 10 years as an anaesthetist/intensivist before training in pharmaceutical medicine. She worked for AstraZeneca in the UK and Canada for over 16 years and was their medical and healthcare affairs director when she left in 2014 to work as a consulting pharmaceutical physician.

Catriona is chair of Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and a non-executive director at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, where she was the senior independent director until September 2020. She is particularly interested in clinical quality and patient and staff safety, and the advancement of good governance within the NHS.

Catriona is lead industry member for the Scottish Medicines Consortium, working with the SMC and industry on health technology assessments and Scottish HTA process improvement, which gives her an additional, but different, opportunity to help enhance clinical and patient care. She is also an accredited executive coach and team coach specialising in supporting the development and delivery of senior leaders in the healthcare and life science sectors.

Catriona attended Edinburgh Medical School and, in addition to her medical, anaesthetics and pharmaceutical medicine qualifications, she has a master of public health (MPH, Liverpool, Health Systems Management stream) and a masters in executive coaching (MSC, Ashridge Business School).

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