The Council of Governors is made up of:
- Seventeen patient and public governor seats
- Five staff seats
- Seven nominated governor seats from partner organisations
Graham Worsdale
I have been a Governor of Barnsley Hospital for over 3 years. My family and I have been patients of the hospital on several occasions over the 20 years we have lived in the Barnsley area. I am also a volunteer at the hospital, a role I have undertaken for six years.
Through these experiences I have developed some understanding of the issues faced by patients, their families, staff and volunteers. I believe I have used this knowledge and the knowledge gained since becoming a Governor to further enhance the work of the Hospital by contributing to discussions and decision making as a Governor using the skills and experience I gained as a senior manager.
The majority of my working life was spent in Universities where as a senior academic I had responsibility for the recruitment, management and development of staff, the recruitment and management of students, the management of budgets, strategic development and the management of quality and standards. Since retiring from full time work, I have continued to undertake quality assurance work in the UK and overseas in relation to organisations having to meet statutory body and organisational requirements. My managerial experience builds upon my academic background and research in statistics and systems.
Phil Carr
I applied to become a governor of Barnsley Hospital Trust having lived in Barnsley all my life and used the hospital services.
After my retirement from being a Forman coach Builder I took on several volunteering roles to help my community and keep myself active. So being a volunteer now for South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue and South Yorkshire Police, then in the last twelve months for NHS Barnsley Hospital I thought I could contribute all my experience of this to the governor role.
Malcolm Gibson
I was born and bred in Barnsley and have lived here all my life. During my working life I was an electrical engineer specialising in controls applications and machine control software. I have travelled the length and breadth of the country and beyond during my career but I was always glad to get back “home”. In my personal life I have a wide range of interests including dancing, walking, reading and golf. I have always been a very sociable person, which is probably the reason I have served on numerous different committees. These range from various Institute of Advanced Motorists committees, school governor, PTA and the neighborhoods watch.
I was made redundant at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, after a little time re-evaluating my life, I was fortunate enough to start working part time at Barnsley Hospital as a bank porter. I enjoy my role tremendously as I feel like I am giving something back to my community by helping make a difference to both patients and visitors.
I enjoy being able to make a difference and be part of team, in my role as a porter I heard about the governors’ positions. This then spurred me on to look at the roles and see there was something that I could add value to. The answer was yes, so here I am.
Phil Hall
I have volunteered at Barnsley hospital for over forty-eight years, working with hospital broadcasting providing Barnsley FC commentaries from Oakwell and more recently as a volunteer in the Accident and Emergency department.I am a passionate supporter of the hospital and the NHS, who have provided great care for myself and my family over the years, and I really want to put something back in my role as a Governor of the Hospital Foundation Trust. I am also involved with Reds in the Community, the charitable arm of Barnsley Football Club, who do a lot of work to promote preventative health and fitness for Barnsley area residents.
As someone who has profound hearing loss, I am committed to ensuring that the hospital is fully accessible to people of disability.
Lisa Kelly
My background is health and wellbeing and I have a keen interest in healthcare and improving local services. I have worked in wellbeing environments for over 10 years, encompassing residential care and education at Barnsley College. Currently, I have the responsibility of coordinating and managing the colleges health and wellbeing provision. I have built knowledge and driven the college to lead on early intervention support, seeing the success the impact early of intervention has. I am passionate about early intervention for Mental Health support and how important this is for supporting the mental health service and its patients.
I have spent quite a lot of time at Barnsley Hospital and am keen to play an active role in Barnsley’s NHS future.
Robert Lawson
have lived in Barnsley most of my life and being retired I have time to devote to this important role within the local area. I am married with a son and I live near the hospital. My family and I have used local NHS services over the years and I would like to give something back. I care about the NHS and I am keen to help the Trust deliver high quality healthcare for the community.
I hope to see the Trust develop through partnerships with local medical providers and ongoing input from Trust members. Ensuring effective teamwork with the involvement of ALL healthcare people and partners is key to delivering the strategic goals of the Trust.
I worked for GPO Telephones/BT for 30 years in technical roles and my last few jobs were in management. I experienced many changes within a large complex organisation. I left BT on voluntary redundancy terms, retrained and succeeded in qualifying in training and QSE (Quality, Health & Safety/ Environmental management/auditing). In my last work role, I was Group QSE Manager for a national security company.
In view of my knowledge and varied experience I believe I can contribute and help the Trust succeed.
Chris Millington
I was born in Barnsley and still live in Barnsley with my wife. We have two daughters and four grandchildren.
My full-time career path saw me working in the retail motor trade, starting on the shop floor, rising to be Main Board Director.
I am passionate about customer care, and getting things done at pace, and I look forward to bringing care closer to home and reducing inequality of care across the whole of Barnsley.
We have a great local hospital and I want to contribute to making it better than the best. I am particularly excited about changing the way we deliver care through all of our health and wellbeing partnerships.
Annie Moody
I am retired from the Civil Service where I had a variety of roles, most recently managing a national project to improve the experience of customers who needed to contact my Government Department. Over recent years I have had back, neck and shoulder operations, and am therefore well placed to have a front-line view of what is great patient experience and what is less great! I am enjoying using this experience, together with skills from my working life, as Public Governor helping represent views of current service users.
I have been a Public Governor since January 2015, and it was my privilege to have been Lead Governor for three years from January 2017 to December 2019. It was a really interesting three years with lots happening, and was personally very rewarding. I stepped down as Lead Governor at the end of 2019, although I am continuing to be a Public Governor and I will use all my previous years experience together with my commitment and enthusiasm to help contribute to the success of the Trust.
Alan Parker
I’m 63 years old and was born and raised in Barnsley.
As a day job, I am a Director for a Gas and Electrical consultancy business and have experience in Auditing the processes and procedures in large companies including Local Authorities and Housing Associations.
I have also been a Magistrate (JP) for a number of years and served at Barnsley Magistrates Court.
I have always had an interest in local issues and thought that the Hospital Public Governor position would be a good place to have a say from a public point of view on how things are run at our local hospital and that’s why I applied.
I hope to bring my Consultancy and Auditing skills into the governor role in some way shape or form.
I’m also a professional ballroom dancer and dance teacher.
Adriana Rrustemi
I am committed to contributing to the work and future development of Barnsley Hospital to improve the quality of services and care for all patients, carers and other stakeholders.
I have first-hand knowledge of the needs and aspirations of Barnsley’s communities. I have developed valuable experiences and skills set through various roles in national and local government involving finance and governance.
I am an experienced board member with a proven track record in strategy, performance, risk identification and management, finance, as well as, operational and user relationship management
Margaret Sheard
I was born and brought up in Barnsley and have lived in Monk Bretton for most of my life.The majority of my working life has been in the NHS. I started Nurse training in 1975 and completed almost 40 years as a Registered General Nurse. I spent short periods working at Kendray and Beckett’s Hospital with the majority being at Barnsley District General Hospital, gaining experience across many different specialities.
Outside of the NHS I have held office as a Barnsley MBC Councillor with 20 years’ experience. During this time I was Chair of the Scrutiny Commission within the Council. I was honoured to be elected Mayor of Barnsley for 2010/11. I have held a number of positions in Barnsley including: President St John Ambulance and Chair of British Heart Foundation.
More recently, I have become a member of the Barnsley Patients Council and the White Rose Medical Practice patient group. I have vigorously advocated for improvements in Cancer Care for over 25 years and oppose privatisation of the NHS as I strongly believe the NHS belongs to the people.
Ann Wilson
I have worked for the NHS on a number of occasions. Initially as a volunteer in the 1970s and then as a nursing auxiliary. I thoroughly enjoyed this role and remained in this post for over 10 years. I then went on to work as a community based warden where I looked after elderly residents in their own homes. I was drawn back to Barnsley Hospital in 2014 as a volunteer and continue to be an active member of the group.
I have a great interest in the Trust, the people who work here and the community it serves.
I hope that my past and present experience within the Trust will help support and inform my role as Public Governor.
I look forward to serving the Trust and the community in my capacity as Governor.
Thomas Wood
My background is in medical devices and I currently work as a regulatory consultant in the medical device industry. Patient safety has been at the core of all my professional roles and I hope to bring this focus to my position as public governor.
I was raised in Rotherham before moving around the country for work. I finally settled in Barnsley over 6 years ago with my family where at one point or another we have been service users. Barnsley’s hospital and associated services is a key part of the community and I look forward to working with the other governors to secure the best future for the service.
Jon Maskill
I first came to Barnsley as a doctor in 1993 and worked here as a junior doctor for several years. I came back to Barnsley as a consultant between 2001 and 2010. After a spell in Doncaster, I returned, once again, in 2021.I have a law degree and am a research assistant in medical law at Northumbria law school in my spare time.
Joanne Smith
I have lived and worked in Barnsley all my life. I joined the NHS at Barnsley Hospital in 1999 as a Switchboard Operator and have continued with my career path at Barnsley for over 22 years. My current role is a new role for the Trust which sits within the Quality and Clinical Governance Team as Compliance Coordinator, working with the Trust’s CQC Inspector and senior team to continue to improve the quality of care we deliver to our patients.
I moved into my first management role in 2009 in the Corporate Division as Administration Manager and my portfolio grew and progressed to the Corporate Support Services Manager.
I wanted to continue to make a difference for patients but working more with the clinical teams. In 2016 I was successful in obtaining a Service Manager role in medicine covering a wide portfolio of services; endoscopy, gastroenterology, care of elderly and stroke. I worked in a triumvirate with clinical leads and matrons and felt privileged to do so. As teams we developed services and continued to make a difference to patient care.
Over the years I have worked with many teams of staff in clinical and non-clinical roles/departments. I have a good understanding of how hard staff work and how important it is to support them to deliver safe patient care.
As a newly appointed governor I hope to be able to contribute by giving staff assurance that they are considered when decisions are made which will impact them and the care they provide to our patients in the future. I am excited about working with my fellow governors.
Nigel Bullock
Nigel has experience working in Leeds, Pontefract and Sheffield as an Acute Pain Nurse Specialist and also worked in New Zealand for 5 years. He also served in the British Army as a Nursing Officer with tours of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nigel has 16 years’ experience solely in Acute Pain Management, 30 years in total nursing and is a non-medical Prescriber.
He has been the Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Acute Pain since October 2020.
David Akeroyd – Barnsley College
David Akeroyd is the Vice Principal for Technical and Professional Education at Barnsley college having joined them in August 2019. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the curriculum delivery and has specific responsibility for managing the preparations for delivery of T Levels from September 2020.David’s background is originally Financial Services working in this sector for almost 20 years before joining the Further Education sector in 2008 – initially as a maths teacher. He progressed quickly to management positions and has been a senior manager in his last three colleges leading significant improvements across all aspects of education.
He is keen to become active across the Barnsley community and sees the opportunity to be a member of the Council of Governor’s a privilege and looks forward to helping in any way that he can
Paul Ardron – Sheffield Hallam University, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing
I am a Partner Governor for Sheffield Hallam University. At the university we educate and train a wide range of health and social care staff including Nurses Midwives, Social Workers, Bio scientists and Allied Health Professionals for the health and social care economy, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Many of the staff employed at Barnsley Hospital will have studied at Sheffield Hallam University and its predecessor Sheffield City Polytechnic.My role is that of Head of Health and Social Care Partnerships within the College of Health Wellbeing and Life Sciences. I work with partners around England in order to develop strategic partnerships, business development and educational packages including Government Departments and Bodies, Acute Trusts, Community Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Primary Care, and a wide range of private independent and voluntary organisations.
I have worked in this field for more than 30 years including working alongside Barnsley Hospital.
I represent the university on a range of bodies including advising NHS Local Workforce Action Boards in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Martin Jackson – Representative Joint Trades Union Committee
I have worked at Barnsley Hospital for 30 years and have been a union representative for 28 of those years. In my day job, I am a charge nurse on the coronary care unit, where I have worked for the last 20 years. I am in the very fortunate position in that I really enjoy both of my roles within the organisation. I know what it is like to have a job that you do not like and this makes me really appreciate that looking forward to coming to work is very important in life.I have always felt that our hospital absolutely delivers the best possible patient care, often under very difficult circumstances. In my view our most important asset is our staff, who work extremely hard to ensure that the care that we deliver to the Barnsley population is of the highest quality. I strongly believe in our values and behaviours, policies and statements and hope to contribute to our hospital becoming an even more attractive a place to work and be cared for.
As a governor I hope to contribute by giving a staff view to what is happening in the hospital, in the hope that our staff are considered when we make decisions about our hospital’s future. I really enjoy working with my fellow governors to ensure that this happens and hope to continue working with them for some time.
Professor Michelle Marshall – Sheffield Medical School
I represent the University of Sheffield as Partner Governor and began my term in 2018.I am the interim head of the Academic Unit of Medical Education at Sheffield Medical School and work closely with local hospitals and general practices across South Yorkshire where our medical students, physician associates and other healthcare students from the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health are based during their training. Many of them stay to work in the region once they qualify.
I previously trained as a nurse and worked at the Northern General Hospital before moving to work at the University. My research was in the area of stroke rehabilitation and interprofessional education and involved working with all members of the healthcare team, prior to my focus on medical education. In my current role, I work locally and nationally with organisations responsible for the governance and regulation of medical training to ensure that we deliver the highest quality training for our students.
My experience and background mean that I am well placed to contribute effectively to the governance of Barnsley Hospital to ensure that the Trust provides the best service possible for the people of Barnsley.
Councillor Jenny Platts, Barnsley MBC
Migration, Libraries, Customer Services, Anti-Poverty, Independent Living at Home, Equipment and Adaptations, Carers Support, Drugs and Alcohol Services, Domestic Violence/Victim Support, Gypsies and Travellers, Community Safety, Registration Services, Area Councils, Ward Alliances and Adult Social Care.
I am a partner Governor at Barnsley Hospital and a member of the Barnsley Health and Wellbeing Board.I have been a member of the Governing Council at the hospital for 9 years and have been involved with interview panels and CQC inspections and regularly attend the Quality and Governance Sub-Group. I have also been involved in many inspections and ward visits, speaking with patients about their personal experiences as an in-patient.
I have considerable knowledge and experience of listening, working with and representing residents of Barnsley.