Lay members
The lay members of the governing body are key appointments for the CCG. They will have excellent leadership skills and be able to establish credibility with all stakeholders and partners. It is important that the lay members of the governing body bring different perspectives to the CCG, drawn from their different professions, roles, background and experience. These differing insights into the range of challenges and opportunities facing the CCG will ensure that it can take a balanced view across the whole of its business.
Lay member with a lead role in overseeing key elements of governance
The role of this lay member is to bring specific expertise and experience to the finance and governance work of the governing body. Their focus will be strategic and impartial, providing an external view of the work of the CCG that is removed from the day-to-day running of the organisation. Their role will be to oversee key elements of governance including audit, remuneration and managing conflicts of interest. They will also chair the audit committee.
The CCG has appointed Teresa Hensman to this role.
Teresa is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and a member of the Association of Fraud Examiners.
Teresa qualified as an accountant in 1996 while working for the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust. She has more than 13 years' senior management experience within housing associations and local government with revenue budgets in excess of £250 million.
Teresa is vice Chair of the PCT Cluster Joint Integrated Governance Committee and a nominated governor for SWAST.
Lay member with a lead role in championing patient and public involvement
This lay member brings specific expertise and experience about involvement, as well as their knowledge as a member of the local community, to the work of the governing body. This person helps to ensure that, in all aspects of the CCG’s business the public voice of the local population is heard and that opportunities are created and protected for patient and public empowerment in the work of the CCG.The CCG has appointed two people to this role - David Jenkins and Jacqueline Swift.
David is currently Chief Executive of Dorset County Council a post he has held since 1999. He is Clerk to the Dorset Lieutenancy, Secretary to the Dorset Strategic Partnership, Chair of the Dorset Youth Offending Team Board, and a member of the Board of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He has chaired the Dorset Connexions Company, and is a past Chairman of the Association of County Chief Executives. He also chairs the Executive Board of the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership for the South West of England. David has chaired the Dorset Working Group for the 2012 Games since its inception in 2003. He has previously worked in teaching, as a solicitor with a number of County Councils, and with the Local Government Ombudsman Service.
Jacqueline is was appointed Chair of NHS Dorset in April 2009 and of NHS Bournemouth and Poole in September 2011. She has considerable experience of working in the NHS having previously been Chair of North Bedfordshire Health Authority, Bedfordshire Family Health Services Authority and Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust. She was appointed Chair of Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust ahead of its formation in 2000 and was responsible for bringing together the Primary Care Group and the Community NHS Trust into a single organisation. She was a non-executive Director at Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust until her appointment to NHS Dorset. Jacqueline worked as a management consultant in organisational development, specialising in the automotive industries, and has been Head of Corporate Affairs at Whitbread plc and Boots plc.
