Jon is the South East Wales Regional Planning Programme Director. Jon's post is hosted by Cardiff UHB, but he is jointly appointed by ABUHB, CTMUHB, CAVUHB and VUNHST and has responsibility for leading the planning and implementation of the South East Wales secondary care regional planning agenda.
James is Head of Regional Communications and Engagement for the South East Wales Region. He is hosted by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s Planning and Programme team, but works on behalf of all four regional partners, including CAVUHB, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Velindre NHS Trust.
James oversees all communications and engagement activity for five regional programmes, which include cancer, diagnostics, ophthalmology, orthopaedics and stroke, as well as the emerging regional clinical services strategy and the Llantrisant Health Park programme.
Hannah started working in the NHS in 2002 as a General Management Graduate trainee in Gwent. She subsequently undertook a number of operational roles before moving into strategic and operational planning.
Her experiences in planning led her to a role in Welsh Government where she introduced the first planning framework in NHS Wales that was aligned to the Financial Act Wales 2014.
Hannah’s passion for service transformation and improvement and organisational excellence was developed in her roles as Director of Planning and Performance with the Welsh Ambulance Services Trust and as Director of Transformation in Swansea Bay LHB. She has gained a keen interest in learning from other systems through her work as a Gateway Reviewer, contributor and lecturer for other sectors.
She moved back into an operational leadership role as Director for Planned Care, Cancer and Tertiary Services at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, where she led the recovery of services following the Covid-19 pandemic, before joining Aneurin Bevan University Health Board in 2023 as Executive Director of Strategy, Planning and Partnerships.
Christopher is a GenerationQ Fellow and Deputy Director of Planning at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. He is responsible for the Board’s Integrated Medium Term Plan, which brings together all of the activity of the board into a coordinated process and, if approved by the Welsh Government, enables financial flexibility.
Christopher spent 10 years in Welsh government, working directly with health ministers developing health policy and accountability frameworks. He was a member of the Welsh Government Board and UK civil service shadow board, helping to support the development of the civil service at a Welsh and UK level.
In his last role as Associate Director of Planning and Performance for Velindre NHS Trust, he led an initiative to improve their approach to performance monitoring.
Marie joined CAVUHB in February 2014 having joined the NHS Wales in Wales in 1992. She has previously held regional lead and health board director and deputy director roles in strategic planning in the previous 10 year and, before that, senior planning and operational management roles in acute and community services across Health Boards in SE Wales.
Marie has a bachelors degree in Law and holds a masters in Public and Health Services Management and is committed to delivering strategic health and care system transformation with our communities and partners.
Vicky Joined CAVUHB in 2019 having worked in NHS England in a number of operational management and corporate roles during her career.
Vicky holds a Masters in Human Resources Management, is PRINCE2 and MSP qualified and has experience in large scale complex clinical redesign, regional planning, and operational service delivery and engagement.
She is responsible for CAVUHB's strategic clinical redesign portfolio, which includes the development of our longer-term clinical services plan, and has led the redesign of a number of services including Major Trauma and Vascular. During the pandemic, she led the programme of work to transform the Principality Stadium into a field Hospital.
Rhi has been a member of the strategic planning team in CAVUHB since November 2022. She provides administrative support, project management support, and secretarial assistance to both core strategic planning team colleagues, and regional team colleagues.
Rhi has a degree in English with Creative Writing, a CIPD Level 3 accreditation in Human Resources, and a PRINCE2 foundation certificate in Project Management. Rhi has a particular interest in project and workforce planning, and outside of work she enjoys gaming, art, writing, theatre, and spending time with her husband, two cats, and three miniature dachshunds!
Linda is an experienced NHS executive having worked at a senior level in many sectors of the NHS and in partnership organisations. This includes a Local Authority and the Voluntary Sector as well as Chief Officer of a Commissioning organisation.
A trained Physiotherapist specialising in Stroke care, Linda took on General Management roles in Medicine, Ophthalmology and Community services before her career took her into commissioning in various organisations in the South West of England and eventually to NHS England. Linda previously held the post of Chief Officer of Wiltshire CCG for two years where she led significant work in primary care development and integration of health and social care services.
More recently Linda has undertaken consultancy assignments including at CTM where Linda has been working on the Urgent Care Improvement Programme. Linda has a good understanding of the NHS, public sector in general and the wider political context.
Vicki is a GenerationQ Fellow and Deputy Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. She leads on the long term strategic planning for the health board, with a key focus on the reconfiguration of clinical services to ensure sustainability, transforming the way health care is provided and reducing inequalities across the patch. She does this in conjunction with the local population and staff members to ensure they meet the outcomes that are important to people.
Vicki also has a key focus on working in partnership with partners within CTM and also more widely across our region and nationally.
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Lauren is the Interim Executive Director of Strategic Transformation, Planning and Digital. Lauren joined the Trust in 2019. Prior to this, Lauren’s career was in banking and finance industry, where she most recently led departments to design and deliver innovative risk and governance solutions to industry-wide challenges. Lauren has also led teams to support turnaround of companies, led on retail customer strategy initiatives and was Chief of Staff to the Chief Risk Officer.
Currently as part of Lauren’s wider portfolio, she is a Non-Executive Director and Trustee of Cardiff & Vale Citizens Advice and also a Governor of Holy Family RC Primary School. Lauren read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, where she won the Lynda Grier Prize for Economics.
She loves a challenge and in recent years has climbed Kilimanjaro and completed five half-marathons in five days along the Great Wall of China. Lauren has two little girls, Mari and Gwen. Outside of work, she most of all enjoys spending time with them – with any additional on reading, running and adventures.
Nick is the Regional Programme Manager for Stroke within the South Central Wales Delivery Network. His responsibilities include developing and implementing regional stroke service solutions with an aim to establish a long-term, sustainable, and clinically effective stroke care model for the populations served by the Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg university health boards.
Jo is the Programme Manager for the South East Wales Orthopaedic Programme, which aims to deliver high quality, equitable care and interventions with the best outcomes and experience for patients, whilst balancing orthopaedic demand, capacity, productivity and efficiency in a sustainable way across Cardiff and Vale UHB, Aneurin Bevan UHB and Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB.
Jo has an extensive background in quality improvement work and service redesign, which includes the Surgical Same Day Emergency Care Unit, the Protected Elective Surgical Unit, and the implementation of Board Rounds to improve patient flow.
Mr Huw Pullen qualified from Cardiff Medical School in 2000. He commenced his specialised orthopaedic training in 2004 on the All Wales Training Programme. During this time he undertook two fellowships. His first fellowship was in the Perth Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic in Australia. This fellowship specialised in all aspects of shoulder and knee surgery including joint replacement and arthroscopic/key hole joint reconstruction. Second fellowship was in the Swansea Shoulder and Elbow Unit concentrating on all aspects of shoulder and elbow surgery including upper limb fractures.
Mr Huw Pullen is Clinical Director Trauma and Orthopaedic Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and has been a Consultant since early 2011. He treats general trauma but has a special interest in Shoulder and Knee Surgery including Joint Replacement and Arthroscopic procedure.
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