Dr Kathy McLean, OBE

Dr Kathy McLean is chair of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB cluster. Kathy has decades of experience in clinical and system leadership in the East Midlands and nationally.

She was executive Medical Director at the former Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for over six years. Before that she was also a consultant physician at the trust from 1994 until 2009.

Dr McLean was the Medical Director at the former NHS Trust Development Authority for three years up to 2016 and prior to this she was the Clinical Transitions Director, helping to build the NHS Commissioning Board, which is now NHS England.

Her work has focused on improving quality by building clinical leadership and expertise across the system, supporting the most challenged organisations and leading change.

Dr McLean was chair of University Hospitals Derby and Burton and a non-executive director at Barts Health and Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS Trusts until becoming chair of NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board. and the NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board and Integrated Care Partnership. She is also chair of the NHS Confederation’s Integrated Care System Network board.

Dr Amanda Sullivan

Amanda Sullivan has almost four decades of experience in clinical practice, commissioning, and system transformation. She is currently Chief Executive of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB cluster, before which she was Chief Executive of NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), a role she formally assumed in July 2022. Her previous roles include:

• Accountable Officer for Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) between 2020 – 2022 where she oversaw the merger of 6 CCGs and the development of integrated system working. She was the Interim Accountable Officer for the 6 CCGs between 2018 – 2020.

• Accountable Officer at Newark and Sherwood CCG and Mansfield and Ashfield CCG between 2012 – 2018, supporting the development of a health and care alliance across Mid Nottinghamshire.

• Chief Operating Officer at Newark and Sherwood CCG and Interim PCT Cluster Director of Nursing for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire PCT Cluster from 2011 – 2012, leading the establishment of a new organisation and overseeing service quality.

• Director of Nursing, Quality and Governance at Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust from 2007 – 2011, where she was awarded a prestigious Florence Nightingale Scholarship.

• Acting Director of Nursing and Emergency Planning Lead, then Interim Deputy Director of Nursing at Nottingham University Hospitals Trust from 2005 – 2007, where she developed a new model for nursing and midwifery practice across the whole trust.

• Staff Nurse, Midwife and Consultant Midwife from 1988 – 2005.

Clair Raybould

Clair Raybould is the Executive Director for System Delivery for NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board. She brings over 30 years of NHS experience to the role, with a strong commitment to collaborative leadership, system transformation, and delivering better health outcomes for the people of Lincolnshire.

In addition to her system delivery and operational responsibilities, Clair continues to serve as the ICB’s Accountable Emergency Officer, ensuring robust emergency preparedness, resilience, and response across the system.

Clair has supported the ICB as Interim CEO previously and also acts as the Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for Planned Care, Cancer, and Urgent and Emergency Care and Women’s Health Champion.

Her leadership journey includes time as Director of Operations at NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), and Chief Operating Officer at NHS Southwest Lincolnshire CCG. Clair’s operational and strategic expertise spans strategic service redesign, emergency planning, and clinically led transformation.

She is known for her practical, people-focused leadership and her ability to foster strong partnerships with clinicians, system partners, and local communities.

Martin Fahy

Martin has an extensive background in nursing and leadership, and before joining the Lincolnshire system four years ago he was the Director of Nursing in Birmingham & Solihull CCG, prior to that he was Director of Nursing and Quality at Bedfordshire CCG, and before then he was the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality for the NHSE Central Midlands Team.

Martin is an experienced Senior Nurse Leader with over 35 years’ experience in a variety of settings across provider and commissioning organisations.

Executive Lead for the following areas;

• Downs syndrome
• Learning Disability and Autism (all-age)
• Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
• Safeguarding
• Local Maternity and Neo-natal Services
• Continuing Health Care

Dr Sunil Hindocha

Sunil qualified in 1986 at Manchester University and worked in the North West before completing vocational training for general practice and moving to Lincoln in 1991 as a GP principal. Sunil is still a partner at the same practice in Lincoln city centre and has a close connection to the area and Lincolnshire as a county, having lived and worked here for more than 30 years.

Sunil has Board level experience at the highest level, as Chief Executive Officer of Lincolnshire West Commissioning Group. This has given him over 15 year’s Board level experience including roles as an Executive Board Member for the Out of Hours co-operative and Chair of the Practice Based Commissioning group. Alongside this he was an integral founder member and subsequently Chair of a federation of GP practices in Lincolnshire called Optimus, and more latterly the Primary Care Network Alliance in the county.

Between 2013 and 2019, he was the Accountable Officer for NHS Lincolnshire West Clinical Commissioning Group, whilst maintaining his position as a GP partner at Portland Medical Practice in Lincoln. Other senior management positions have included Executive Member of the Lincolnshire Sustainability and Transformation Plan, with Senior Responsible Officer roles in the Integrated Community Care and General Practice Forward View programs.

Sunil’s current executive role is as Medical Director for the ICB, and he clinically led the re-design of the colorectal pathway. He is Chair of the Clinical and Care Directorate, a body he helped establish for the Lincolnshire system. This is a forum where clinicians from all professions meet to look at evidence based, data driven, clinically led re-design of pathways.

Dr. Kevin Thomas

Kevin qualified as a GP from the University of Leicester in 2008 and completed his vocational training in General Practice in 2013 in Lincoln, working as a GP in the same practice since. He completed his postgraduate qualifications in Medical Education in 2017 and is a GP trainer. He was the Training Programme Director for the International GP Programme and led on the GP expansion pilot along with the Lincolnshire Local Medical Committee.

Following the advent of Primary Care Networks, he was elected as the Co-Clinical Director of East Lindsey PCN, and his main areas of interest are workforce development, training and research. He chairs the Primary Care People Group and is the Deputy CEO of the Lincolnshire Primary Care Network Alliance.

He also works for the Lincolnshire Training Hub as the Workforce Transformation Lead GP and has responsibility for the GP Fellowship Programme in Lincolnshire.

Mr Martin Samuels

Professor Karen Dunderdale

Karen became substantive Group Chief Executive Officer for Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group on Monday 1 July 2024. She previously held board level roles in Lincolnshire as Chief Nurse and Deputy CEO, as well as board-level roles across the Midlands and North regions as Chief Nurse, Chief Operating Officer, Deputy CEO and acting CEO, as well as having worked in the national nursing team at NHS England. In addition, she held the role of vice chair of her local hospice for a number of years.

Karen qualified as a registered nurse in 1991 and her clinical experience has been in cardiology. She became a cardiac nurse specialist developing cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure services. She has a PhD in Health Related Quality of Life in Chronic Heart Failure from York University, has contributed substantially to the development of cardiac nursing, and raised expectations nationally within the nursing profession. In 2023 she was conferred as a Visiting Professor of Nursing for the Faculty of Health & Social Care at the University of Lincoln.

Karen sees her role as a privilege and is passionate about the delivery of high quality care and services for the people of Lincolnshire.

Sarah Connery

Sarah is Chief Executive of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, the main provider of mental health services in Lincolnshire. She was appointed in September 2021, having acted into the role since October 2020.

Sarah has worked in the NHS for 19 years in various senior finance and leadership roles, and has wide business management experience from working in the retail and audit sectors.

A keen advocate for mental health, learning disability and autism services, as well as being passionate about improving health outcomes for the most vulnerable in our population, Sarah leads our system Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism alliance – bringing together system partners in collaboration to enable people to live well in their communities.

Sarah is also passionate about the sustainability of services and is the system executive lead for estates and also the NHS Green agenda.

Dawn Kenson

Dawn has an executive background in financial services, predominantly with Barclays, and extensive Non-Executive experience in public sector bodies within HMRC, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Transport, and the Northern Ireland Office.  Dawn has also served as a Non-Executive Director in a care services company, a housing trust, and from 2015 with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.  Dawn’s lead Non-Executive responsibilities in the ICB will be as Chair of the Service Delivery and Performance Committee.

Dawn lives on the rural outskirts of Lincoln.

Sharon Robson

Sharon has been a registered nurse for 42 years and is an experienced senior NHS leader, having held a wide variety of clinical leadership positions including Board level Executive and Non-Executive roles across the East Midlands.

Sharon is recognised as a collaborative and inclusive leader with a focus on person-centred care and population health management, who brings an extensive knowledge and experience  of frontline clinical services to the ICB Board and a track record of improving the quality, safety and experience of healthcare services. Sharon was appointed to the ICB Board in August 2023 and chairs the Integrated Care System Quality and Patient Experience Committee.

Anita Day

Anita is  a Chartered Accountant, NHS Chair and Non-Executive Director, and executive facilitator and coach, with an international people strategy consulting background and UK board experience in the private, public and third sectors.

Her NHS career has included stints as a non-executive director at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and as Chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. She is currently Chair of East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.  Her portfolio as a Non-Executive Member of NHS Lincolnshire ICB includes being the lead for Workforce Strategy, Health Inequalities and Digital Transformation. She lives in South Lincolnshire.

Julie Pomeroy

Julie is an experienced finance director of quoted and private companies. She graduated with an honour’s degree in Physics from Birmingham University and is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Director. She also holds tax and treasury qualifications.

Julie worked in the accountancy profession for several years before joining East Midlands Electricity plc, where she progressed to Director of Corporate Finance.  Subsequently, as Finance Director/CFO, Julie has had a key role in two main list flotations and also led a reverse onto AIM.

Julie is a Non-Executive Director at Dillistone Group Plc, an AIM quoted software business, where until September 2021 she was the group Finance Director and Company Secretary, having joined in 2010.  She was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies Holdings Plc, which listed on the London Stock Exchange in May 2021.  In February 2022 she became Non-Executive Chair.

Julie also spent over 12 years as a Non-Executive Director of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.  She chaired the Audit Committee at both Trusts.

Julie’s lead Non-Executive responsibilities in the ICB are for Finance and Resource.

Dr Phillip Earnshaw

Dr Phillip Earnshaw is Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Primary Care Commissioning Committee.

John Dunstan

John is an experienced CFO / Finance Director and a qualified chartered accountant. With FTSE100 and major accounting firm experience, John has held executive roles in SME companies and Non-executive roles in Charitable trusts in the education sector. John’s experience ranges across strategy development, financial management and decision making, audit and financial compliance, legal and taxation, data protection and compliance, operational planning and delivery, and process development.

John Qualified with Ernst and Young before holding a number of financial, operational and strategy roles in The Boots Company plc. Following four years with a retail start up, John completed 15 years as Finance Director with Interflora.

Concurrently, John spent over 15 years involved with the Greenwood Academies Trust, a Multi-Academy Trust and its predecessor entities, and was latterly the Chair of The Audit Committee. John now serves as Non-Executive Director at Our Learning Cloud, a wholly owned IT services spin off from that organisation.

John’s lead Non-Executive responsibilities at the ICB will be to Chair the Audit and Risk Committee on behalf of the Board.

Councillor Steven Clegg

Professor Derek Ward

Professor Derek Ward is the Director of Public Health for Lincolnshire County Council, and is currently covering the same role for North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire Councils. He is also a visiting Professor of Public Health at the University of Lincoln.

Derek is the Public Health Clinical Research lead within the East Midlands Clinical Research Network (part of the NIHR) and has been on the board of trustees for the Royal Society of Public Health, and a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) public health advisory committee.

Prior to his current roles he held a dual role within academia and the NHS. He was Director of the Health and Social Care Research Centre and a Professor of Public Health at the University of Derby, and provided professional public health advice into the four Clinical Commissioning Groups across Derbyshire. Prior to taking up this joint role he was Director of Public Health for Derby City for five years, firstly as an Executive Director within NHS Derby City Primary Care Trust and then latterly as a Chief Officer of Derby City Council.

He also has significant experience of national and regional policy work, having been a Consultant in Public Health and a Senior Civil Servant in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Sarah-Jane Mills

Sarah-Jane first joined the NHS in 1987 when she qualified as an Occupational Therapist.

She has over 27 years senior manager and leadership experience in NHS provider and commissioning organisations, and in the Third Sector.

Sarah-Jane is the lead for developing integrated primary care and community services, and works with her colleagues from across primary care to support the development of local services that enable access and continuity of care.

She is passionate about supporting people to live life to the full and works with partners from the Integrated care system to promote delivery of proactive care which people can access to help them improve their overall health alongside managing a long term condition.

Sandra Williamson

Sandra is Executive Director for Health Inequalities, Prevention and Regional Collaboration, a role she has undertaken since the establishment of NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) in July 2022.   In addition, she is the lead for developing Community Pharmacy, Optometry and Dentistry services for Lincolnshire following delegation of commissioning from NHSE to the ICB in April 2023.

Prior to this, Sandra was Chief Operating Officer – East Locality, and Executive Lead for reducing health inequalities at NHS Lincolnshire CCG, following several years as Chief Finance Officer at NHS Lincolnshire East CCG.

Sandra feels privileged to have worked for the NHS since 1993 in various senior finance and leadership roles.  She is passionate about improving health outcomes and working with partners across the Integrated Care System – including local authority and third sector partners – and using data and insights to support targeted intervention in reducing health inequalities for the most disadvantaged communities and vulnerable population groups across Lincolnshire.  With a focus on ‘prevention is better than cure’, Sandra is determined to support Lincolnshire people to spend more of their lives in good health.

A qualified accountant, Sandra lives in Boston with her husband and has family who also live in Lincolnshire.

Navaz Sutton

Navaz is the Chief Executive Officer for HWLincs, the charity that delivers Healthwatch Lincolnshire. The purpose of Healthwatch is to understand the needs, experiences and concerns of people and to advocate that those running services put the people of our communities at the heart of what they do.

Navaz has a wealth of experience and knowledge of local communities, infrastructures, organisations and sectors, and has spent two decades working within Lincolnshire and with local and national charities. He has held delivery through to strategic leadership roles during that time, as well as having experience on national advisory panels and charity boards.

With Healthwatch Lincolnshire being the independent champion for people who use health and social care services, Navaz is committed to influencing change across the system for the benefit of local communities.

Michele Jolly

Anne Lloyd

Anne became Director of Workforce Transformation in January 2025, after spending 25 years working across the public sector on local, regional and national footprints in the Civil Service, Local Government and the NHS. Anne is passionate about transformation, and understanding what truly drives and motivates people, organisations and culture, crossing organisational boundaries and enhancing performance.

Previously Anne has served in key leadership roles, including as Director of Human Resources, primarily focussed on advising board, and leadership teams on all aspects of workforce, people and culture while leading teams across Human Resources, Traded Services, wider Corporate Services, and leading Joint Negotiating Committee arrangements.

Anne holds a Master of Arts in Human Resource Management and is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. In addition to extensive workforce and human resources experience, Anne is a trained and passionate advocate of coaching and mentoring.