Who we are
The Trust Board
The Trust is governed by a board of Trustees whose breadth of knowledge and experience covers the fields of pharmacy, medicine, health services, research, business, law, economics and policy.
Mr P. L. Marshall Davies (Chair) is Chairman of the Trust. He was a Director of Boots the Chemists from 1991, at which time he became a Council Member of the Council of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and subsequently President from 2001-03. Current roles include Membership of The Science and Technology Facilities Council and Non-Executive Director of Diamond Light Source Ltd, and chairs the Audit Committee of both Organisations. He is a former member of the Council for the Regulation of Health Professionals, The Central Laboratory of The Research Councils and Non-Executive Director of Newark and Sherwood Primary Care Trust. He is a Justice of the Peace.
Mr Steve Churton has held a variety of professional and senior management roles within community pharmacy. He is currently head of professional practice at Boots. Within this role he is responsible for clinical governance and the safe and effective provision of professional services by pharmacists and their professional support teams. Steve was elected as president of the RPSGB in June 2008. He is committed to leading the profession and to bringing about the establishment of a new professional leadership body, as the regulatory responsibility of RPSGB transfers to the General Pharmaceutical Council in 2010.
Mr Anthony Clinch has worked for Unilever PLC since 1955, in various capacities, his most recent position being Director of Finance for the Leverhulme Trust. Other current activities include: Member of the Investment Sub-Committee of the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants, Governor/Trustee of Kingston Grammar School, Trustee of the Royal Pinner School Foundation he was also previously Member of the Investment Sub-Committee of the Institute of Chartered Management Accounts. He is a Member of Charity Finance Directors Group
Mr Peter Curphey has extensive experience in senior management roles within community pharmacy, most notably at Boots the Chemists. He also ran his own pharmacy. He was a Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Council from 1994 - 2003; elected a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 1997; and was President from 1997-1998. Other past roles include Chairman of the Pharmacy Sector Committee (Skills for Health). Peter is currently a member of the Appeals Committee of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a reserve member of the RPSGB Conduct Committee. On The Isle of Man he is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, a member of the Health Services Consultative Committee and chair of the LPC. Peter leads the visiting degree accreditation team on behalf of the RPSGB.
Professor Brian Edwards CBE is Chairman of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and was awarded the CBE in 1988. He is Emeritus Professor of Health Care Development, University of Sheffield (since 1996) and has had a varied career in NHS management and Academia. Advisor to WHO since 1982; and, President of the Hospital Committee for Europe.
Ms Christina Funnell is a graduate in social administration with over twenty five years experience working in the health sector in the charitable, public and private sectors. The main focuses of her work are: appropriate representation and action on the views of patients, consumers, users and staff; professional regulation and clinical standards; and governance.Current roles include being a designate member of the General Pharmaceutical Council, Councillor for the City of York, Patient Involvement Manager for Patient Opinion (www.patientopinion.org.uk), Executive Member of the York Older People's Assembly, Trustee for York Council for Voluntary Service, Council member of North Yorks Fire and Rescue, Governor of Burnholme Community College, member of NIHR Management Commitee and a representative on National Voices
Mr Ray Jobling has been a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge holding a succession of University & College teaching, research, & administrative positions since 1968. His work has involved a focus on aspects of public policy but he has also published & lectured widely on the psychological & social aspects of illness, especially chronic skin disorders. Ray has chaired a Community Health Council and served as a Member of NHS Boards. He is Chairman of The Psoriasis Association, Board Member of Skin Care Campaign, and Lay Advisor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skin and a Non-Executive Member of the board of the Pharmaceutical Press. Ray is also Chair of PharmacyHealthLinks and a designate member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Lord Newton of Braintree was the Conservative MP for Braintree from 1974 until 1997.
He was Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons from 1992 until 1997. He was raised to the peerage in 1997 as Lord Newton of Braintree of Coggeshall in the county of Essex.Former Vice-chair of the All Party Pharmacy Group in Parliament and is Chair of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and Elected Honorary Fellow of the Society at the Council’s meeting in June 2004.
Professor Clive Smee, CB has an academic background in social research and economics. He is the former Chief Economic Adviser, Department of Health (20 years) and has also worked as an economic advisor in the UK Treasury and Cabinet Office and the New Zealand Treasury and Ministry of Health. A visiting Professor of Economics, University of Surrey, his publications include "Speaking Truth to Power" on the role of analysis in health policy making. He has also worked in development economics and is a member of DIFD's Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact (IACDI).Other current work includes advice to the Home Office, the Nuffield Trust and the Research Directorate in DH.The Board of Trustees also draws on the advice and help of a number of experts in relation to grant making and project management/oversight.
