Governors
As a public benefit corporation, we are owned by our 6,500-strong membership of patients, public and staff, who are represented by the governors' council. Our public governors are elected by the membership.
Our governors:
- provide a direct link to our local community
- represent the interests of members and the wider public in the stewardship and development of the Trust
- advise the board of directors, who have the operational responsibility for running the hospital.
In this way the population served by our hospital is directly involved in the governance of the Trust.
Role of governors
Governors are very important to ensure a link between the members of the NHS Foundation Trust, the wider community and those who run the hospital.
Roles
Governors have a duty to represent the interests of the members of the Trust and the interests of the public as a whole.
Governors are responsible for holding the non-executive directors individually and collectively to account for the performance of the board of directors.
Chair
Public governors
West Norfolk
Esme Corner
Prudence Fox
Gilli Galloway
John Greyson
Dr Julian Litten
Mike Press
Sara Shaw
Barbara Turner
Kenneth Wicks
Cambridgeshire/Fenland
Betty Lewis
Gary Monger
South East Lincolnshire
Chris Brewis
Alan Maltby - Deputy lead governor
Breckland, North Norfolk, and the rest of England
David Chittenden
Dr Antonia Hardcastle - Lead governor
Staff non-clinical governors
Sheena Johnson-Banks
Leanne Kendrick
Stewart Nimmo
Staff clinical governors
Three vacancies
Appointed governors
Jane Evans, West Norfolk Carers
Dr Sue Madden, University of East Anglia
Councillor Lesley Bambridge, Norfolk County Council
Andy Walder, Freebridge Community Housing
Councillor Peter Wilkinson, Breckland Council
Rachel Boast, College of West Anglia
Councillor Alexandra Kemp, Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk