NHS finance committees | 12 January 2024

As part of its mission to promote good governance, GGI has been hosting facilitated 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:

To start off 2024, GGI’s unique peer-to-peer forum for NHS NEDs looks at the main board committees: audit, quality, finance and people. Starting with NHS finance committees, we will focus on good practice in finance committee remit, reports, style and assurance, which is highly topical with such enormous pressure on NHS finances being part of all boards’ work at the moment.

Helping us through this will be Bob Alexander, a highly experienced NHS finance director whose executive career ended with him steering the TDA as first their director of finance and then deputy chief executive. Since leaving executive work Bob has held multiple non-executive positions, including of Sussex Health and Care Partnership and as interim chair of Imperial.

A seasoned and highly informed commentator, Bob’s counsel is highly sought after. Our webinar on best practice in NHS finance committees will be a chance to discuss with him his ideas and thoughts.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This meeting is by invitation only and is open to all NHS non-executive 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.

To register for this event, please click the link below:

We hope that you will join us for what will be an interesting and insightful discussion.

Should you have any questions, please contact events@good-governance.org.uk.

Bob Alexander is vice-chair, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, and chair of the Finance, Investment and Operations Committee. He is also a non-executive director of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, as part of the governance arrangements for the North West London acute provider collaborative. He is also a non-executive director at London Ambulance Service.

Previously, Bob was the independent chair of Sussex Health & Care Partnership ICS and has held a number of national NHS posts including deputy chief executive and executive director of resources at NHS Improvement. He is a non-executive director and audit chair of Community Health Partnerships Ltd and a trustee of the Demelza Children’s Hospice charity.

Bob was also chief executive and director of finance at NHS Trust Development Authority, finance director of NHS South of England SHA cluster and director of NHS finance at the Department of Health where he led on NHS financial policy and performance as well as being responsible for the national tariff programme and advising ministers, HMT and other Government departments on NHS financial matters. Bob was a Strategic Health Authority (SHA) finance director from 2002 to 2007, first with Kent and Medway SHA then with South East Coast SHA.

Bob has an MBA and is a fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.