Cath Cooney is appointed as a non-executive board member from 1st July 2024 until 30th June 2028.
Cath brings many years of experience from senior programme and policy leadership roles across the public sector, public health, inequalities-sensitive practice, health and social care, as well as the voluntary sector in Scotland and the UK.
From her first role as an NHS Medical Laboratory Scientist, she has since held leadership positions across the NHS, and community and third sectors with a particular focus on working in partnership to address the causes and consequences of inequalities, fostering community and stakeholder engagement, and strengthening the voice of lived experience.
She recently completed her term as a member of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling of Great Britain with a focus on public health and lived experience-informed approaches to addressing gambling harms.
Cath currently works independently in supporting leadership development and strengthening capabilities in systems change.
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Hospitality
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Register of interest
Board Member, Advisory Board for Safer Gambling, Gambling Commission
Managing Director and Founder, Cath Cooney Consulting
Director, Scottish Leadership Institute CIC
Associate Director, The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland
Member, East Renfrewshire IJB
Member, Renfrewshire IJB
Trustee, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowment Fund
Brian Auld became a member of the Board on 1st July 2024.
Brian is a Chartered Environmental Health Officer and registered safety professional, and is currently Head of Health, Safety and Sustainability at Scottish Canals. He brings over 20 years’ regulatory, enforcement, and assurance experience gained within the public and third sectors across different industries in Scotland.
Brian was one of the first Inspectors appointed during the creation of the Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) and was responsible for the inspection of NHS services and the regulation of private healthcare. He is the former Director of Professional Development with the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) and Head of Safety, Risk and Compliance with the Church of Scotland General Trustees.
Brian is passionate about continuous improvement, organisational governance and risk management and looks forward to bringing his experience to Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board as the Whistleblowing Champion member.
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Hospitality
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Head of Health, Safety and Sustainability, Scottish Canals
Trustee and Council Member, The Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS)
Trustee, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowment Fund
Martin Cawley became a member of the Board on 1st July 2024.
Martin has worked in the health and social care sector for around 40 years. A learning disability nurse by profession, Martin worked in the NHS for the earlier part of his career before joining the third sector.
Martin has held senior positions in the voluntary sector as Director of Services with Quarriers and spent eight years as CEO of Turning Point Scotland. He also spent three years as Director for Scotland at the National Lottery Community Fund.
In his most recent role, Martin was CEO of Beatson Cancer Charity for five years. During his career he has held a number of non-executive roles and been involved in various national working groups and umbrella organisations.
Dr Lesley Thomson KC joined NHSGGC from NHS Lanarkshire where she served on the Board for 5 years as a Non-Executive Director and Vice Chair.
Lesley had a long career in Law and was the Solicitor General for Scotland from 2011 to 2016. Prior to that, she worked as a Procurator Fiscal in many locations across Scotland including serving as Area Procurator Fiscal in Glasgow. In 2016 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law by the University of Glasgow.
Lesley’s previous Non-Executive career includes sport on the Board at Scottish Rugby and Education as a Lay Governor at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Her other former roles include Commissioner of the Northern Lighthouse Board and member of the BBC audience council.
Lesley has wide ranging experience of strategy development, leadership and collaborative working with partners across the public and third sectors. She is committed to putting people at the heart of the NHS and contributing to improving lives in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
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Organisation: Scotland Committee EHRC Position held: Member
Portrait image of Dr Becky Metcalfe, Non-Executive Board Member
Non-Executive Member
Biography
Dr Becky Metcalfe is a Consultant in Sexual Health & HIV Medicine and has worked for NHS GGC since 2007, bringing a wealth of frontline clinical experience to the Board.
Becky is passionate about improving health inequalities and is an expert in HIV prevention and management in women, people who inject drugs and those who experience homelessness. She has experience in leading service redesign to improve the quality of clinical services delivered across NHSGGC and will continue to champion this in her new role.
Becky also has medical management experience and is enthusiastic about upholding the Board corporate objectives including, ‘Better Workplace’. She was elected to a trustee role on the British HIV Association (BHIVA) Executive Committee in 2020.
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Hospitality
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Consultant in Sexual Health and HIV Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
As a data controller NHSGGC are required under Article 35(1) of the UKGDPR to complete a data protection impact assessment for all processing which may result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals. This may include e.g. the use of new technologies, the processing of high volumes of special category data or data processing involving data from vulnerable groups. The table below provides a summary of the most recent data protection impact assessments we have completed.
Completed Data Protection Impact Assessments
My Asthma Biologics
Purpose
The purpose of the app is to facilitate the appropriate exchange of data to support close monitoring of patients receiving biologics to track their clinical course and continue to justify eligibility for biologics. Patients are prompted to enter information on their asthma control and exacerbation history to facilitate clinical review. It will enable clinicians to manage patients remotely at scale.
Patients also benefit from digital tools that can improve their compliance with asthma medication and self-management on a continuing basis out of hospital, using features such as inhaler technique videos, personalised asthma action plan, peak flow monitoring and steroid weaning plan.
Date Approved 21.12.2022
Review Date 21.12.2024
On appointment, Non-Executive Board members are issued with an induction pack, containing information useful for new colleagues about NHSGGC’s governance structures, details on existing Board members and their biographies. The pack will also include further helpful information to assist our Non-Executive Board members to settle into their role.
The personal development needs of individual Board Members is also supported by NHS Education Scotland Board Development | Turas. New Board Members are required to register on TURAS and should make full use of this resource.
The induction programme also requires Board Members to familiarise themselves with the key documents that explain who we are, what we do and how we work together to deliver our roles and responsibilities.
Staff Engagement Session: Sustainability and Value Programme
As of 2023 the Financial Improvement Programme (FIP) was relaunched as the Sustainability and Value Programme.
Join Paul McKenna, Head of Sustainability and Value to learn more about the re-launch, ask any questions you have about financial sustainability and improvement and find out how you and your team can get involved in the programme.
Check back here soon for links to our training and resources
Types of Sustainability and Value projects and benefits
Sustainability and Value provides tactical support and through the Project Management Office (PMO) oversees 100s of projects a year that range in scale and duration. Each Project can be accounted for on a Recurring and Non-Recurring basis.
Examples of various Projects:
Recurring savings from changes in drug prices.
Recurring savings from the change of consumables used in clinical procedures.
Non Recurring savings in the reduction of agency staff used in a department.
Recurring savings delivered through service redesign.
Cost avoidance through the use of alternative methods of service delivery to manage increased demands.
Waste Projects
The waste policy has been revised to reflect the commitments NHSGGC is making to meet legislative obligations and targets as a key part of our Scope 3 emissions towards Net Zero and Climate Change. This is a change of direction from the previous policy and focuses on the environmental impact of waste and our ambitions to reduce that impact.
NHS Scotland is committed to meeting the requirements of Scotland’s Zero Waste Plan through the Policy and Waste Management Action Plan as well as through short-term, medium-term and long-term projects to increase resource use efficiency and improve sustainability practices.
Our Future Waste Management Model
Prevent and Reduce – Through our sustainable procurement and clinical sustainability group we will work to prevent, reduce and reuse waste.
Reuse and Recycle – Implementation of waste segregation within clinical settings to increase segregation of non-contaminated waste into recycling stream and move away from single use items.
Recover / Dispose – Implement recycling facilities at source for general waste in public and staff non-clinical areas.
There have been various projects and initiatives involving waste minimisation in order to be more sustainable. Clinical waste segregation is a significant and on-going project, as well as improving recycling facilities across all GGC sites.
Mehvish Ashraf MRPharmS is a community pharmacist who brings a wealth of patient facing and management expertise to the Board. Having served for over a decade in some of the most deprived areas in and around Glasgow, she has a deep understanding of health inequalities. In particular, ethnic minority communities and supporting those with addictions.
Mehvish has worked at the Head Office of an independent chain of pharmacies spread across Scotland.
She also served as an Associate Member of Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) Lanarkshire Committee and is a Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Ms Ashraf’s appointment is for four years, from 9th January 2023 to 8th January 2027.
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Hospitality
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Trustee, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Endowment Fund
