Lancashire Place Partnership membership biographies

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County Councillor and Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, Lancashire County Council

High level summary of role responsibilities

Michael became a county councillor in 2009, making use of the skills he had learnt as a solicitor, community champion and borough councillor in South Ribble.  He has served at Lancashire County Council Cabinet Member for Economic Development, Environment & Planning, together with performing the duties of Group Secretary

Having been re-elected for the fourth time in May 2021, Michael was pleased to become the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing at a time when these areas of responsibility were firmly in the focus of Lancashire's residents.  He serves as Chairman of the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board and has been proud to be the inaugural Chairman of the Integrated Care Partnership for Lancashire and South Cumbria

In his spare time, Michael enjoys walking and sightseeing, supporting local charities, watching sports events, travelling, eating out and of course politics.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Chair, Lancashire Place Partnership

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Michael is supportive of partnership working to deliver improved outcomes for residents. He offers experience of working with senior officers from local authorities and partner organisations.  Michael brings to the table a link to the residents and communities of Lancashire and a mandate to represent them.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Delivering our agreed programme of work to ensure continuing support to preventative health, enabling the residents of Lancashire to have the best health and wellbeing that they can. To ensure effective governance between the Lancashire Place Partnership and the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board, including specifically how the Better Care Fund is managed and spent across Lancashire.

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Director of Health and Care Integration (Lancashire),  Executive Director of Adult Services, Lancashire County Council

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Louise combines her role as DHCI for Lancashire Place with that of executive director of adult services for LCC. Both roles entail her being a member of the ICB & County Council executive leadership teams. She is the Chair of the ICS Transforming Community Care Board responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of three core programmes including healthier communities, integrated neighbourhood working and enhanced care at home. As the statutory officer, Louise has responsibility for the entirety of Adult Services comprising Community, Hospital & Prison social work, safeguarding and commissioning teams as well as the leadership of a range of in-house regulated care provision, for older people and adults with learning disability, autism and mental health, including residential, day and respite care as well as a successful shared lives scheme

She has delivered strategy and change programmes and played a key role in the Lancashire Resilience Forum during the Covid-19 pandemic, which co-ordinated services across health, local authorities and the voluntary sector.

Louise is Lancashire born and bred and in her leisure time she reads, walks with her two border collies and practices Pilates. Louise is a member of the Chorley and Leyland Methodist Circuit Leadership team

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Director of Health and Care Integration (Lancashire)

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Significant senior leadership experience including at system level, experience, and commitment to drive change and the discipline to prioritise and monitor and address performance

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

• Delivering the priorities that have been agreed with the Partnership
• Reducing the burden of bureaucracy
• Ensuring that everything we plan, agree and do is public centred and accountable
• Gaining traction on the three programme priority areas and securing better financial value through joint procurement and consistent pricing and contractual management of health and care between the ICB & Local Authorities

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Chief Nursing Officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

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Sarah is one of two clinical members of the ICB board so has a ‘clinical voice’ in board decisions. Sarah is the named board lead for children and young people, safeguarding, SEND, learning disabilities and down syndrome and is also responsible for all age continuing care for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board, maternity, quality and safety and professional leadership nursing workforce.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Vice chair and nominated representative for Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Sarah’s role in the Integrated Care Board is very relevant to health and care agenda and many areas where she is responsible for would benefit from integrated working eg CHC, SEND, safeguarding.

Sarah has experience of integrated working in a previous role where she was responsible for the health and care budget in a small borough, and was in a joint role as executive director of peoples services in a local authority and clinical accountable officer for a clinical commissioning group, bringing this experience of place based integrated working.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Identifying a couple of key areas to move forward and focus upon.

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Executive director of resources, Lancashire County Council.

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Mark has responsibility for the governance within the council and also for the resource allocation across the organisation. He oversees the 'corporate centre' of the council ensuring its enabling resources are supporting agreed priorities.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

As the executive director of resources at Lancashire County Council.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Mark has considerable Local Authority and partnership experience, having worked for a number of councils. Mark adopts a collaborative approach to partnership working and have a passion for ensuring public sector bodies work together to improve the 'places' they represent.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

To develop a clear plan of action that will allow genuine partnership work across the system to develop.

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Chief executive, Preston City Council

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Adrian has been the chief executive of Preston City Council since May 2018. In this role he has overall responsibility for the management of the city council’s staff, services and functions.

As chief executive he supports the leader and council in the delivery of the Preston’s innovative community wealth building approach which is central to its philosophy of ensuring resources and investment opportunities benefit all the city’s diverse communities.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative of district councils for health and wellbeing.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

A commitment to support and engage by representing the district councils of Lancashire who are seeking to make a meaningful impact.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Supporting improvements to community health by strong inclusion of communities, the VCSFE sector, supported by district councils.

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Associate medical director, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

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Lindsey works within the medical directorate of the Integrated Care Board and supports the primary and community commissioning team. She is the senior responsible officer for palliative and end of life care and the dying well programme for the Integrated Care Board.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative for primary care

*On a rotational basis with Peter Gregory

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Lindsey brings a senior clinical view of primary care (general practice, dentistry, pharmacy and optometry) to the partnership and is a frontline clinician working in general practice in Lancashire and brings her knowledge of current clinical care and the wider system to the meetings.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

The development of a strong clinical and care professional voice within the partnership and across the Place to take forward and enable the work in community transformation.

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Associate medical director for Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

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Provides clinical leadership and advice to the Integrated Care Boards primary care team, especially relating to quality improvement, service development and transformation.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative for primary care

*On a rotational basis with Lindsey Dickinson

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Peter feels he is a credible witness to, and advocate for, all pillars of primary care, but most strongly for general practice.

He has experience in partnership working and development, having chaired the West Lancashire Partnership, and strongly believes that collaborative working between health care, social care, local councils and the voluntary sector is essential for keeping pace with health inequalities.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Relationship development, understanding all the community assets and enabling collaborative working.

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Chair, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

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Shazad Sarwar joined the ELHT Trust Board as chair on 5 December 2022. Shazad has an extensive amount of experience both in the NHS and externally, as well as a wealth of Board and senior management expertise in community engagement, corporate governance, performance and risk management.

Shazad has previously been a non-executive director (NED) on the ELHT Trust Board. He is a former deputy chair of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, where he led the CQC Board assurance committee, following their Care Quality Commission inspection. He has also been a NED at neighbouring mental health and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) since December 2018, where he was the chair of the finance and resources committee and Board lead for equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI). Shazad was most recently appointed as NED on the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board (ICB) in February 2022 and chairs both the remuneration committee and the people committee and is the Board lead for net zero.

Living with his family in Pendle, he has a passion for change and innovation and is an advocate of asset-based community development and making sure that services are informed and developed in collaboration with service users.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative for the Lancashire and South Cumbria Provider Collaborative Board

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Shazad brings the view of the providers and their role as being significant anchor institutes and the role they have in the integration agenda. Raise awareness of the issues and challenges being faced by providers and how we can work together to overcome those. Opportunities for collaboration and joint working, for example community services / workforce; insight into current collaborations between providers.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Focus on delivering the 2024/25 Lancashire plan, outcome focused, deliver value for money through focus on collaboration / transformation, support in closing the health inequalities gap and joint working between the Lancashire place partnership and the Lancashire health and wellbeing board.

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Corporate services director, Queenscourt Hospice

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Debbie is the executive director and part of the executive leadership team with the director of clinical services and medical director, with whom the management and oversight of Queenscourt and its activities is equally shared.

She is also company secretary, for Queenscourt Hospice and each of its subsidiary companies.

In addition, she is responsible individual for the purposes of the regulatory body, the Care Quality Commission and requirements.

Senior information risk owner (SIRO) as required by the information governance toolkit.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative for the Lancashire and South Cumbria hospice collaborative.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Debbie brings a perspective of charitable and independent providers who offer specialist support that support the strategic objective of Dying Well.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

To continue to embed meaningful partnerships and move from design of systems and process to delivery of priorities.

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Skills for Care, locality manager for Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Lancashire, Westmorland & Furness, Cumberland

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Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future. Skills for Care has six area teams covering England. Locality Managers offer workforce support to the adult social care market, have close working relationships with a wide range of ICSs, ADASS programme offices, local authorities, adult social care provider organisations, networks and those in receipt of personal budgets (individual employers).

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative from the care sector.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Through this role as locality manager Matthew brings insight via his regular contact with leaders involved in delivering social care through our registered manager and deputy manager networks covering all local authority areas, our registered manager membership, our nominated individual and CEO networks and work with other key local, regional and national stakeholders.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

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Chief executive officer for Lancaster District Community and Voluntary Solutions

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Yak contributes the concerns, priorities, and aspirations of the sector to ensure their voices are heard and considered in discussions and decisions related to local initiatives and policies and to foster strong relationships, trust, and collaboration between the partnership board and local communities, ensuring that decisions are informed by grassroots perspectives and experiences.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Nominated representative for the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise Sector in Lancashire.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

With over 35 year’s experience working in the VCFSE sector and with our communities, in partnership, Yak has been part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria VCFSE alliance since it began and has a collaborative mindset toward achieving the same shared goals and objectives.

Yak is passionate about making a positive difference and committed to the partnership's mission and values and is keen to inspire others with his enthusiasm and dedication, driving collective action and achieving impactful outcomes.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

In the heart of Lancashire, our Place-Based Partnership stands as a beacon of collaboration, innovation, and hope. We are architects of change, weaving together health, community, and well-being. Together, we work tirelessly to improve outcomes for our residents—breaking down barriers, bridging gaps, and leaving no one behind and our commitment is heard in our neighbourhoods and in every service.

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Chief executive, People First, Delivering Healthwatch Lancashire

High level summary of role responsibilities

David is responsible for the overall leadership of People First, setting the strategic direction. In Lancashire he is particularly focused on Healthwatch Lancashire and supporting stakeholders to consider the experience and views of citizens

He is also a member of the Lancashire Health and Wellbeing Board and the Integrated Care Board.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Chief executive, Healthwatch.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

David brings his expertise in engagement and co-production, check and challenge, and tries to He is a firm believer that nothing should be done without people being fully involved.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

There is a lot that we need to change in the coming months and years to make sure that our citizens live healthy and happy lives, we must fully include people in the places we work, putting them firmly in the driving seat.

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Chair of the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Marie brings with her over 25 years of leadership experience from health services and the charitable sector, including NHS executive and non-executive roles with responsibility for performance and governance. Prior to this she was a registered nurse.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Non-executive director

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Marie has a wealth of expertise and understanding regarding the importance of joined up care for people and communities across all health and social care sectors, which includes being the independent chair of the Central Lancashire Integrated Care Partnership since 2018. Other roles include being a guideline committee chair for NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence). Marie is also the chair of Pennine Multi-Academy Trust of Schools in Pendle giving her large insight into the needs and wellbeing of children in Lancashire.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Visibility of delivering at Place relating to key objectives set that local residents can see or indeed experience. Continuing to bring challenge to the discussions within the Lancashire Place Partnership to ensure that we are achieving the best outcomes for the Lancashire resident.

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Associate director of finance place and programme Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

High level summary of role responsibilities

Advising on and supporting the financial implications of the community transformation programme.

Supporting the strengthening of financial governance arrangements at Place level, including budget delegation where appropriate.

Leading on aspects of the financial integration agenda with local government including Better Care Fund and discharge funds.

Supporting the efficiency programme of the Lancashire and South Cumbria system and helping to facilitate the opportunities at Place level.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Lancashire Place finance lead.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Having worked in the Lancashire and South Cumbria system for 16 years (including 10 years as a Chief Finance Officer in West Lancashire) Paul feels he can bring a good knowledge and understanding of ‘whole system’ working and how effective collaboration can help to solve some of the financial challenges present in the Lancashire and South Cumbria system and is also able to bring a strategic view of NHS finance, at national, regional and local level.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Optimising the role of the Lancashire Place in LSC system financial recovery and identifying win/win opportunities with partners to get better value  for Lancashire patients/citizens from the money we currently spend. Being clear on what we can deliver in the short/medium/long term and executing a delivery plan that has ‘buy in’ from all participants.

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Deputy executive director of adult services, Lancashire County Council

High level summary of role responsibilities

The service comprises of social work, safeguarding, and commissioning teams as well as the leadership of a range of in-house regulated care provision, for older people and adults with learning disability, autism and mental health.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Chair, senior operational delivery group for integration.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Senior leadership experience and knowledge of adult services.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

It is vital that the partners linked to Lancashire Place Partnership start to think about the high-level outcomes that we are trying to achieve – most of which link to enabling independence, staying well, and Lancashire residents living in a place they call home.

As chair of the delivery group for integration, Elaina is interested to see how Lancashire Place can encourage joint working between Lancashire County Council; the district councils; the NHS; the Voluntary, Community, and Faith Sector and the care market which builds on some good work that is already in place as well as plotting out practical steps in how we enhance this to support  people within the community they live whilst delivering value for money and a coordinated approach to managing the care sector.

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Director of Public Health, Wellbeing and Communities, Lancashire County Council

High level summary of role responsibilities

Creating a collaborative culture and a joined-up plan for promoting health, preventing disease and protecting lives to support Lancashire as a better place to live, work, visit and thrive.

Capacity in which you attend Lancashire Place Partnership

Chair, senior operational delivery group for prevention and inequalities.

What you feel you bring to the Lancashire Place Partnership

Enthusiasm, cross sector innovation, ownership and accountability.

What you view as important to the Lancashire Place over the next 12 months

Authentic leadership, listening to our communities and workforce, focussed action on reducing unwarranted variation in practice and outcomes.