The chief executive of NHS Tower Hamlets is Alwen Williams. She has overall responsibility for the day-to-day running of our organisation and is supported by a senior management team.
Board of directors
The NHS Tower Hamlets board is the governing body of our organisation and has corporate responsibility for all of our activities. It aims to provide leadership, to look ahead and set the strategic aims, and to identify and maintain our values.
Membership of the board
The board team is made up of part-time non-executive directors drawn from the local community and full-time executive directors (NHS staff).
The board members are set out below.
- Chair: Stephen O'Brien
- Chief executive: Alwen Williams
- Director of finance: Stuart Saw
- Director of public health (joint appointment with London Borough of Tower Hamlets): Dr Ian Basnett
- Medical director: Dr Douglas Russell
- Director of quality development: Caroline Alexander
- Joint chairs of the professional executive committee: Dr Sian Howell and Lucy Marks
- Non-executive directors: Taric Ahmed, Marion Ford Hutchinson, Denise Jones, Nurjahan Khatun, Geoffrey King, Judith St John, and Ala Uddin
- Staffside representative: M Benkharmaz
- Local authority co-opted member: Cllr Anwara Ali
- THINk representative: Peter Cobb
Other directors
Other directors who don't sit on the board are listed below.
- Deputy chief executive: Andrew Ridley
- Director of corporate development and performance: Martin Cusack
- Director of primary and community care commissioning (interim): Jane Milligan
- Director of capital development, estates and facilities, and ICT: David Butcher
- Director of human resources and organisational development: Deb Clarke
- Managing director of community health services: Steve Rowlands
Commissioning executive committee
One of the main sub-committees of the board of directors is the commissioning executive committee. Its role is to work closely with the NHS Tower Hamlets board and management team to help develop and plan the future direction of health services in Tower Hamlets.
