Emerging Leader Members of the National Leadership Council

The NHS National Leadership Council was set up in April 2009.  As part of its membership five people were appointed as core council members to provide input on policy and direction from the perspective of emerging leaders. These emerging leaders have been involved in all aspects of the work of the National Leadership Council since its formation. Their biographies are printed below.

Richard Stubbs.

Richard is the Programme Director for the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes at the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.  His current role involves the creation of a national programme of competitions designed to uncover frontline innovation and improve the culture of innovation in NHS organisations. Richard is also working with the Department of Health on a new initiative which will support the NHS to engage with the global healthcare market.

 Prior to joining the NHS Institute in April 2010 Richard was Associate Director of Corporate Strategy at Derbyshire County PCT with the lead responsibility for delivering the World Class Commissioning agenda.  He was also a participant on the first cohort of the Top Talent Breaking Through Programme.

 Richard represents emerging NHS leaders as a core member of the NHS National Leadership Council and is also a member of the NHS Health and Well-being Scrutiny Panel.  

 Richard joined the NHS in 2002 through the national Graduate Management Scheme and has previously worked in numerous sectors, including the acute sector as Head of Business Development at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 

 Prior to joining the NHS Richard worked in the media, predominantly in TV and radio production at the BBC and Granada TV.   Richard lives in Sheffield.

Claire Marshall– Head of Professions, Scheduled Care, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Claire is a physiotherapist and has held many leadership positions including Head of Physiotherapy Services, and secondments to the leadership and management of other Allied Health Professions (AHPs). 

She has recently been appointed as Head of Professions in a clinically led organisational structure and is responsible for the professional leadership of nurses, midwives and operating department practitioners with a particular focus on patient safety, quality and risk.

She has been a participant on the Trust’s Future Leaders Development Programme, and was awarded ‘Leader of the Year’ at the 2006 Trust Staff Awards.  She has gained an MSc Management in Health and Social Care and is currently undertaking the Henley Certificate in Coaching.

She was appointed to the National Leadership Council (NLC) in April 2009 and has been involved in many national activities both for the NLC and with AHPs.  She was a judge at the AHP National Leadership Challenge in 2010 and has recently judged for the UK Advancing HealthCare Awards. She is a member of the Emerging Leaders National Stakeholder Group.

Emma Stanton
Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy

Currently a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice researching "Value in mental health care" in Boston, USA, Emma is former clinical advisor to the Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health, England. Emma is a core member of the NHS Leadership Council and is also recipient of the NHS London "Prepare to Lead" mentoring scheme. Emma is co-editor of Clinical Leadership: Bridging the Divide, as well as co-author of M.B.A. for Medics, and co-founder of Diagnosis, a clinical leadership social enterprise. Previously, she served as a clinical advisor to BUPA Health Dialog, and was clinically trained as a Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Stanton holds an Executive M.B.A. from Imperial College, London, a MRCPsych from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a bachelor of medicine from Southampton University.

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Oliver Warren MD MRCS
Specialist Registrar in General Surgery, North West Thames Rotation

Oliver Warren is a specialist registrar in general surgery in London and an honorary Fellow in the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London.  He is a member of the NHS National Leadership Council and Clinical Director of ‘Prepare to Lead’, a leadership development mentoring scheme for doctors, run by NHS London, which he established in 2007. He has an advisory role in the Strategy directorate at NHS London and is a member of the Provider Strategy Group for the North West Thames Sector.

He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and 4 book chapters on subjects including haemorrhage and inflammation in surgical patients, surgical education and training, mentoring and leadership development. In 2008 he was seconded to the Department of Health as Clinical Advisor to Lord Darzi and the Next Stage Review team. In 2010 Oliver was a finalist in the BMJ’s ‘Junior Doctor of the Year’ award and between 2007 and 2009 was a Leadership Fellow at the Health Foundation.

Carolyn Davison

Carolyn qualified in 1989 and held a variety of posts in general medicine, prior to spending 7 years as a nurse specialist and lecturer/practitioner in clinical nutrition.  In 1995, her work was recognised with a commendation award in the Nursing Standard Nurse of the Year Awards.  During the 1990’s, she held a number of national committee positions within the British Association of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition.

Appointed as Nurse Consultant in 2001, Carolyn has led GI nursing and endoscopy services.  She was the SHA lead nurse for endoscopy modernisation, and a member of the DoH National Endoscopy Leadership Group and other national groups contributing to the national endoscopy programme.

Since 2004, Carolyn has led the international development of training and education in capsule endoscopy.  She developed the first European training programme and has trained more than 500 doctors from around the world.  For her work on this programme, she won the Robert Tiffany International Award at the 2006 Nursing Standard awards.  She has studied capsule endoscopy in Germany and at the Mayo Clinic, USA and has lectured on this subject worldwide.

Appointed in 2009 to the National Leadership Council, Carolyn is involved in a range of NLC activities and is a member of the Emerging Leader National Stakeholder Group.