17 March 2015
Press release
Trust appoints new chairman with strong local
ties to lead the trust
West London Mental Health Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of
Tom Hayhoe as chairman. He takes up his appointment on 1 April 2015.
Tom is well known to west Londoners from his time as chairman of West
Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust and before that as deputy chairman
of Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority.
Steve Shrubb, chief executive of the trust, said: “I am very pleased that Tom
is joining as chairman of the trust. We have a very full programme of work as
we prepare for Care Quality Commission inspection in June and complete the
redevelopment of Broadmoor Hospital and St Bernard’s in Ealing in the
coming two years.
“Tom has a great deal of knowledge, insight and influence within the local
health and social care community, having served on west London NHS
boards since 1985 and this will be a huge advantage to the trust.”
Nigel McCorkell retires on 31 March 2015 after six year as chairman of the
trust Board.
Commenting on his retirement, Steve added: “I want to thank Nigel McCorkell
for his outstanding leadership of the trust Board. The role he played in
securing public funds to redevelop our estates was critical to our future
success as a provider, and his compassion toward patients and service users
is well known and much admired.”
On joining the trust, Tom Hayhoe said: “I am pleased to be joining West
London Mental Health Trust as chairman. The profile of mental health care
has never been higher and there is a real passion across the health and care
system to transform how we care for vulnerable people, support them in their
recovery and improve their life chances. I am looking forward to joining the
trust, getting to know the staff, service users, carers and patients, and making
a real contribution to mental health care.”
The NHS Trust Development Authority has confirmed the appointment of Tom
Hayhoe as Chair of The West London Mental Health NHS Trust.
Non-executive appointments to NHS Trusts made by the NHS TDA are
subject to the Code of Practice of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
Tom’s term of office will start on 1 April 2015 and end on 31 March 2017 and
he is entitled to receive a remuneration of £35,000 per annum.
- ENDS Notes to Editors:
Biographical details:
Tom has served on NHS boards in West London since 1985, including as Deputy
Chairman of Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority, Chairman of the
West London Pathology Consortium, and Regional Chairman of the Advisory
Committee for Clinical Excellence Awards. Since 2005, Tom has been Chairman of
Building Better Health West London, the public private partnership company that
developed the award winning Heart of Hounslow Centre for Health for Hounslow
PCT. He has spent most of his career in the private sector: as a management
consultant with McKinsey & Company, the Brackenbury Group and The Chambers;
and in retailing with W H Smith and Gamestation. He is a former church warden and
school governor and current Vice Commodore of the Royal Ocean Racing Club.
Tom Hayhoe has lived in Hammersmith, West London since 1982. He is 59, is
married, and has a grown-up daughter. He is an experienced sailor, having
competed at national and international levels in a variety of dinghy, keelboat and
offshore classes. Further information about Tom appears on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hayhoe
About West London Mental Health NHS Trust:
West London Mental Health NHS Trust is one of the largest mental health trusts in
the country. It provides a full range of mental health services for children, adults and
older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and
Hounslow in addition to specialist and forensic mental health services, including high
secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Contact details: Helene Feger, Director of Communications 020 8354 8847,
[email protected]
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