1. NHS England Yorkshire and The Humber

2. North Regional Team
Richard Barker Regional Director
Helen Dowdy Head of Intervention & Support
Sally Baines Regional Director of HR & OD
Julia Hickling Regional Director for P&I
Damian Riley Regional Medical Director
Gill Harris Regional Director of Nursing
Tim Savage
Regional Finance Director
Jon Develing Regional Director of Ops and Delivery
Julie Higgins Regional Commissioning Director
Embedded teams. Also report to relevant National Director

3. Medical Directorate – Mike Bewick
providing regional clinical leadership for domains 1-3 of the NHS Outcomes Framework;
supporting the regional and area teams to provide clinical input to direct commissioning and CCG oversight;
supporting the Medical Director to undertake the statutory Responsible Officer (RO) role in the Region and for medical staff employed by the regional team;
providing professional and clinical leadership including: across the AT medical director network;
establishing, developing and managing clinical senates and clinical networks;
providing and quality assuring clinical advice; and
addressing professional performance issues (responding to service failure, complaints, untoward incidents and poor performance in primary care).
Nursing Directorate – Gill Harris
providing regional clinical leadership for domains 4 and 5 of the NHS Outcomes Framework;
providing professional leadership for nursing and midwifery within the health and social care system
supporting regional and area teams to provide nursing input to direct commissioning and CCGs oversight;
leading assurance of quality and safety including:
convening risk summits where appropriate;
through reconfigurations, including working with LETBs on workforce planning; and
oversight of serious incident reporting and learning.
lead on patient and public involvement, acting as champion for patients and their interests and involving the public and patients in the work of the NHS England.
Commissioning Directorate – Julie Higgins
lead Direct Commissioning for the Region, including identifying needs, contracting, development, assurance and intervention for numerous services including NHS primary medical care services, specialist services, Public Health services (screening), military health services, offender health services, dentists, optometrists and pharmacies.
Operations and Delivery Directorate – Jon Develing
Strategically leading, supporting and holding to account CCGs in their commissioning of high-quality, safe, patient and client-centred services within the framework of the NHS England’s single operating model;
Setting and implementing the planning framework for CCGs, ensuring agreed Mandate priorities are planned for, and delivered;
Implementing and leading an effective emergency planning and resilience system for the NHS in the Region;
leading in managing national predictable events (i.e. ‘Winter’) and other less predictable events such as industrial action;
co-ordinate single, coherent relationships with all key external stakeholders.

4. Finance Directorate – Tim Savage
providing strategic financial leadership for NHS England across the Region, including co-ordination and oversight of area teams;
designing and implementing a clear financial strategy for the Region consistent with the NHS England’s clinical strategy, investment priorities and resource assumptions – covering £5-6bn of direct commissioning funding and £15bn+ allocated to CCGs;
assuring and supporting the effective financial performance of CCGs
overseeing and assuring the financial planning and re-design of services, particularly large scale and complex service reconfigurations, working in partnership with CCGs, HWBs, area teams, NTDA and other stakeholders;
Patients and Information – Julia Hickling
Assure / support local commissioners and directly commissioned providers;
Excellence in use of data, intelligence and transparency
Putting patient and public voice and insight at the heart of service delivery
Making best use of technology to improve customer service and outcomes
Improving local communications between the NHS and communities we serve
Champions / ambassadors for national programmes – extension of the national team;
Potential to lead on key strategic programmes / functions.
Human Resources and Organisational Development– Sally Baines
Strategic HR&OD support to Regional and Area Teams
Implementation and management of outsourced operational HR services for the Region
To ensure NHS England (North) meets employment related statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements
Leaders / ambassadors of national HR & OD programmes – extension of the national HR&OD team
Intervention and Support & Business Office Teams – Helen Dowdy
I&S - small team to provide flexible resource during the early part of NHS England’s operations. Also supports matrix working and coherent delivery across the regional teams and the area teams, in line with the single operating model.
Business Office - small team to support the RD in leading and organising NHS England across the region, liaising with key external stakeholders, and supporting key briefing and (internal) communications requirements.

6. YORSHIRE & THE HUMBER Director of Commissioning Operations
(Yorkshire and the Humber)
Moira Dumma
Director of Nursing and Quality
Margaret Kitching
Medical Director
David Black
Paul Twomey
Director of Finance
Jon Swift
Locality Director
(West Yorkshire)
Brian Hughes
Locality Director
(North Yorkshire & The Humber)
Julie Warren
Locality Director
(South Yorkshire)
Alison Knowles

8. Director of Nursing and Quality
Margaret Kitching
Deputy Director of Nursing Carole Lavelle
Deputy Director of Nursing
Geraldine Sands
Deputy Director of Nursing
Zena Robertson
Deputy Director of Nursing
Julie Finch

9. Head of Co-Commissioning Head of Ops and Delivery
Locality Director
(West Yorkshire)
Brian Hughes
Head of EPRR
Adam Bland
Head of Co-Commissioning
Kathryn Hilliam
Head of Ops and Delivery
Lou Auger

10. Locality Director (South Yorkshire)
Alison Knowles
Head of Health and Justice
Christopher Jewesbury
Head of Co-Commissioning
Emma Wilson
Head of Co-Commissioning
Karen Curran
Head of Ops and Delivery
Katrina Boffey

11. Head of Co-Commissioning (1 WTE x Band 8d) Emma Wilson
Screening & Immunisation Lead
Screening & Immunisation Manager
Public Health Nurse
Screening & Immunisation Co-ordinator
Public Health Nurse

12. Locality Director (North Yorkshire & the Humber)
Julie Warren
Head of Co-Commissioning
Geoff Day
Head of Ops and Delivery
Mark Janvier
ARMED FORCES
Manager
Jim Khambatta