Non-executive directors
Peter Catchpole
Peter joined the Board on 1 April 2004.
He has worked as a senior executive in the NHS for 30 years, 20 of them as a Chief Executive.
He has also been a Non-Executive Director for organisations in the not-for-profit and charity sectors.
He is currently a County Councillor in West Sussex and a Fellow of the Faculty of Health, and teaches at the University of Brighton Business School and Post-Graduate Medical School.
He also has number of appointments in the professional regulatory sector, and is an independent healthcare consultant and a business advisor to the independent health sector.
Luisa Dillner
Dr Luisa Dillner joined the Board on 1 February 2010.
She qualified in medicine from Bristol University and trained in surgery gaining her FRCS in 1991. She is Head of New Product Development at the BMJ Group and has launched some of their most successful online products such as BMJ Learning and BestHealth, the BMJ Group's online consumer health resource.
Most recently she launched doc2doc, an online international global community for doctors and healthcare professionals. Luisa also spent two years as Health Editor at the Guardian and has written three books and numerous health articles for consumer publications.
Steve Duncan
Steve Duncan joined the Board on 1 October 2010.
A pharmacist by training, Steve has a track record of leading transformation and driving performance in complex multi-national, multi-site environments.
He was awarded a place on the prestigious three month Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School before going on to hold a number of leadership roles at Moss Pharmacy, Alliance Pharmacy, Alliance UniChem and Alliance Boots. He recently retired as Executive Chairman of Boots.
Steve will remain an advisor within Alliance Boots for the next two years, alongside his role at NHS Direct, which is initially for the next four years.
Tim Heymann
Tim Heymann joined the Board on 1 February 2010.
He is a consultant physician at Kingston Hospital, specialising in gastroenterology and liver disease. He was also responsible for developing Kingston Case Notes, an award-winning electronic patient record pilot. He has also provided the clinical lead for major projects that have helped redefine the way in which services are delivered.
Tim has been a consultant for McKinsey and Booz Allen. He also works at Imperial College Business School and is responsible for much of the development and delivery of health management courses for undergraduate medics, post graduates and senior health service managers in the UK and abroad.
Sue Hunt
Sue joined the Board on 1 April 2007.
Sue currently holds an Appointed Trustee position at CfBT Education Trust.
She is a chartered accountant who spent 18 years with global accountancy and business advisory firm KPMG, both as a Consultant and Director.
During that time she worked with a range of clients from the public and private sectors, both in the UK and internationally.
Sue was instrumental in establishing a multi-disciplinary healthcare group at KPMG and advised 16 trusts on all aspects of their Foundation Trust application process, either directly or on behalf of the Department of Health NHS Foundation Trust Implementation Unit (NHSFTU).
Trevor Jones
Trevor joined the Board on 1 April 2007 and is an accountant with 29 years’ experience in the NHS.
He is the former Head of the Scottish Executive Health Department and Chief Executive of NHS Scotland, working with Scottish Ministers to establish NHS 24 and to introduce the ban on smoking in public places.
More recently he was Chief Executive of a Strategic Health Authority and a member of the NHS Leadership Forum advising the Secretary of State on health policy. He currently has a number of Non-Executive Director roles in both the public and private sectors.
Tim Walton
Tim joined the Board on 1 April 2007.
He is an independent consultant and non-executive director on the Operating Committee of the Department for BERR.
His last post was as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for CLM, the Olympic Delivery Authority delivery partner for London 2012.
His career has included executive and non-executive roles spanning operational, commercial, financial, e-business and IT assignments in civil and military aerospace, construction and design engineering.
A Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Chartered Engineer, Tim has been a member of various steering boards for industry initiatives and is also a guest speaker at Warwick and Oxford MBA Courses.
