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Michelle Wailes

Non-Executive Member

Michelle Wailes is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, with over 18 years’ experience in the professional and financial services industries and the public sector.  

She started her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, working in the Government and Public Sector team.  During this time she was engaged on the delivery of statutory audit services, internal audit services and specialist advisory projects across a wide range of Public Sector Bodies in Scotland and the South East of England.  

She then spent 10 years working at the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank Group where she gained extensive experience in internal audit, risk and corporate governance.  

Michelle Wailes is currently a Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee at Scottish Canals, and a member of the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner Audit and Accountability Committee.

Other information

Expenses claims

No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

Board Member, Scottish Canals

Board Member and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, SQA

Member of the Audit and Accountability Committee, Police Investigations and Review Commissioner

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Charles Vincent

Non-Executive Member

Biography

Charles Vincent is appointed as a non-executive member from 1st February 2020 until 31st May 2025.

Charles is a highly experienced corporate board member, working in highly regulated industries and their accompanying governance.

He has also been a Children’s Hearing Scotland panel member for a number of years making complex decisions about the futures of vulnerable children in partnership with the various agencies involved in their lives.

He brings to the board his vast experience of developing high performance cultures that are able to continuously improve through supportive self-analysis. This includes managing the complex disagreements that inevitably occur when there are conflicting priorities within an organisation.

Charles Vincent has lived his whole life in Glasgow and is committed to ensuring that its residents get the very best healthcare possible.

Other information

Expenses claims

No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

Managing Director, Life Enhancing Automation Ltd

Director, Young’s Hospitality Ltd

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Dr Lesley Rousselet

Non-Executive Member

Biography

Dr Lesley Rousselet is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st July 2021 until 30th June 2023.

Lesley works as a community based, independent prescribing optometrist, having qualified in Optometry from Aston University in 1996, with a PhD in Vision Sciences in 2013.

Within NHSGGC, she currently holds the position of Chair of the Area Clinical Forum.

Dr Lesley Rousselet is joint Programme Director for Optometry in NHS Education for Scotland, and is driven by a passion for accessible and excellent patient care.

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Expenses claims

No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

Programme Director Optometry, NHS Education for Scotland

Locum Support, Locum Optometry Supply

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Ketki Miles

Non-Executive Member

Biography

Ketki Miles is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st June 2020 until 31st May 2024.

Ketki has 32 years’ experience working for a global financial services organisation.

She has worked in a wide range of senior leadership roles in the UK, Europe, Asia and the US, with experience in working with diverse and dispersed teams.

Ketki brings strengths in operational leadership, strategy, and change management.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science.

Ketki Miles has an appreciation of the challenges the NHS faces nationally and in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and is looking forward to making a contribution.

Other information

Expenses claims

No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

No interests declared.

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Professor Iain McInnes

Non-Executive Member

Biography

Professor Iain McInnes is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st April 2021 until 31st March 2025.

Iain is Vice Principal and Head of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, Muirhead Chair of Medicine and Versus Arthritis Professor of Rheumatology at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is also Director of the Versus Arthritis Centre of Excellence for Inflammatory Arthritis, led from Glasgow and including Universities of Oxford, Newcastle, and Birmingham.

He is immediate past chairman of the FOREUM (Foundation for European Rheumatology Research) Scientific Committee, leads the European Roadmap programme that is defining the research agenda for European rheumatology for the next decade, and is currently President of EULAR (European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology), the leading trans-national society for rheumatology across Europe. Under these auspices, he is creating the first pan-European Rheumatology Research Centre, launching in 2021.

Over two decades, he has led numerous clinical trials and pathogenesis investigation programmes in inflammatory arthritis at an international level. His work is focused on understanding the pathogenesis of immune mediated inflammatory diseases and encompasses basic discovery immunology through phase 1 and proof of concept experimental medicine clinical trials to leadership of pivotal phase 3 trials in immune biology. His original discovery work has led to the therapeutic targeting of several inflammatory cytokines. More recently, he has focused on the biology of myeloid cells in the pathogenesis of a number of immune diseases. He has published >400 peer-reviewed original and review articles with an h-index >100.

Professor Iain McInnes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is the recipient of several prestigious prizes in recognition of his work, including the Sir James Black Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2017, the Heberden Medal of the British Society for Rheumatology in 2018, and the Carol-Nachman Prize for Rheumatology, Germany (the highest international award in rheumatology) in 2019. He was awarded a CBE for services to medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2019.

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No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

No interests declared.

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Margaret Kerr

Non-Executive Member

Biography

Margaret Kerr was appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st April 2019.

Margaret brings significant financial expertise to the Board having accumulated more than 20 years’ experience from auditing and advising private companies, listed corporates and large public sector organisations. As a qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAS), Margaret has extensive financial reporting, internal control and corporate governance experience and has worked with a wide range of stakeholders including clinicians, academics, senior management and non-executives to develop and improve governance.

Margaret Kerr is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (CMIIA) and has performed the Head of Internal Audit role for a number of public sector organisations, including NHS Boards.

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No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

Organisation:
Renfrewshire Integration Joint Board
Position held:
Member

Organisation:
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
Position held:
Member

Organisation:
Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors
Position held:
Member

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Non-Executive Member

Biography

Councillor Jacqueline Cameron is appointed as a non-executive board member from 21st June 2022 until 30th April 2027.

Other information

Expenses claims

No expenses claimed.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

Elected Member, Renfrewshire Council

Member, Renfrewshire HSCP Integration Joint Board

Non-Executive Director, Public Health Scotland

Trustee, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowment Fund

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Simon Carr

Non-Executive Member

Biography

Simon Carr is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st September 2015 until 31st August 2023.

Simon has over thirty five years’ experience working in the voluntary sector, most of which has been spent as a senior officer in the social care and housing sector.

With a track record of developing innovative solutions to complex problems, he looks forward to bringing that experience to NHS Glasgow and Clyde. He has developed and led complex transformation programmes to help ensure organisations remain focused to meet the changing needs of the people that use their services.

Simon Carr understands the challenges the NHS faces nationally and in Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and he looks forward to making a contribution.

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Expenses claims
Hospitality

No hospitality declared

Register of interest

Organisation:
Inverclyde Integration Joint Board
Position Held:
Chair

Organisation:
Glasgow City Integration Joint Board
Position Held:
Vice Chair

Organisation:
HealthCare Improvement Scotland
Position Held:
Independent Contractor

Organisation:
Simon Carr Consultancy and Interim Management 
Position Held:
Owner

Organisation:
SFHA/HIS
Position Held:
Housing Advisder

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Photo of Jane Grant in blue circular frame

Chief Executive

Biography

Ms Jane Grant is appointed in her capacity as Chief Executive of Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board from 1st April 2017.

Jane was previously the Chief Executive of NHS Forth Valley for a period of three and a half years. Prior to joining NHS Forth Valley Ms Grant spent four and a half years as Chief Operating Officer for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

She joined the NHS in 1983 as a Management Services Officer within Highland Health Board, and also worked in Stobhill Hospital as Deputy Administrator in her early career.

In the early 1990s, Jane moved to Lanarkshire Health Board as Hospital Administrator within Hairmyres Hospital. This was followed by a variety of posts within Lanarkshire, culminating in her appointment as General Manager of Hairmyres Hospital in 1999.

Ms Grant moved back to Glasgow in 2000 to become the General Manager for Surgery in North Glasgow. She was appointed as Director of Surgery and Anaesthetics for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in early 2006 and became the Board’s Chief Operating Officer in 2009. She was appointed as Chief Executive of NHS Forth Valley in October 2013.

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Expenses claims

No expense claims have been declared.

Hospitality

No hospitality declared.

Register of interest

Organisation: MiP Trade Union
Position held: Member

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Contact

Visit

Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Corporate HQ
J B Russell House
Gartnavel Royal Hospital Campus
1055 Great Western Road
GLASGOW, G12 0XH

Access to the building

Access during core business hours is via the front door on the 1st floor, from 8.30am to 5.15pm. This also provides disabled access.

Secondary access, plus extended hours access, is via the rear door on the ground floor, from 7.00am to 7.00pm. This also provides disabled access. This door has security code entrance.

There is one lift, which is primarily intended for disabled visitors use.

All visitors must sign in at the reception desk which is located at the front entrance.