Annual Report and Accounts - The Great Western Hospital

Lyn Hill-Tout, Chief Executive (until 12 June 2011)
Lyn was an Executive Director of the Trust from November 1997 and Chief Executive of the Trust
for nine years. Lyn’s background was in operational general management. Lyn was a graduate of
the Institute of Personnel and Development (1994) and held a HNC in Business Studies and Public
Administration (1988). Until March 2008 she was a Trustee of Age Concern (Swindon) and was
also Chair of NHS Elect.
Lyn left the Trust in June 2011 to take up the position of Chief Executive of Mid Staffordshire NHS
Foundation Trust.
Dr Alf Troughton, Medical Director (interim Chief Executive - 1 June – 30 September 2011)
Alf has been Medical Director at the Trust since 1 April 2006. He has been a consultant radiologist
at the Trust since 1994 and was the Clinical Director of Radiology for five years. He was the
Radiology President at the Royal Society of Medicine between 2003 and 2005. Alf obtained his
degree in medicine in 1978 from the University of Bristol and became a member of the Royal
College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1984. Subsequently Alf became a fellow of the Royal College of
Radiologists (FRCR) in 1989 and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCR) in 1997.
Despite his managerial commitments Alf continues to practice as a Radiology consultant part time
as this helps him to keep in touch first hand with the clinical services provided by the Trust.
During 2011/12 Alf Troughton was appointed interim Chief Executive following the resignation of
Lyn Hill-Tout who left the Trust in June 2011. He returned to his substantive post in October 2011
when Nerissa Vaughan joined the Trust as Chief Executive.
Maria Moore, Director of Finance
Maria was appointed as Director of Finance on 29 September 2008. She had previously held the
Deputy Director of Finance post at the Trust having joined in March 2003. Maria has over 18 years
experience in the NHS which she joined as a Regional Finance Management Trainee in 1994.
Since completing her training, she has worked in several acute Trusts. Maria graduated from
London University with a degree in Mathematics and is a member of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants (ACMA).
Oonagh Fitzgerald, Director of Workforce and Education
Oonagh joined the Trust in February 2008. Oonagh had previously worked as Director of Human
Resources and Organisation Development at Kingston Hospital, South West London and prior to
that she was Deputy Director of Human Resources at Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust in Croydon,
South London. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She
originally studied law at university and gained a Masters in HR Leadership in 2005.
Sue Rowley, Director of Nursing and Midwifery
Sue registered as a General Nurse in 1982, undertook her diploma of nursing, registering as a
clinical tutor in 1987. Sue specialised in trauma and orthopaedics as a Ward Sister and Senior
Nurse before moving into General Management. Sue was successful in applying for the Kings
Fund Leadership Programme (1999–2001) and studied leadership in healthcare nationally and
internationally spending time in both Hong Kong and China. Sue was appointed Director of
Operations in August 2003, then to Director of Nursing & Midwifery as a statutory Board member in
September 2006. Sue has recently achieved a MSc in Strategic Management at Bristol University.
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