Watch: Putting health at the heart of your local economy
This webinar, the first in a new series, looked at the local growth agenda, the role of acute trusts, and how they can influence local leaders.
Speakers
The new government is now focused on its central mission of economic growth. A key part of delivering this is the Local Growth Agenda – stimulating local economic development and rebalancing the UK economy at large.
We are supporting members to position themselves as central to boosting productivity, addressing inequalities, spreading opportunity, and restoring pride to local areas. This webinar, the first in a new series, looked at the local growth agenda, the role of acute trusts, and how they can influence local leaders. Contact Michael Wood directly to learn more.
Speakers
For the first session Michael Wood was joined by the following guest speakers:
- Kathryn Lavery is chair at Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) on 1 December 2022. Kathryn, previous chair for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, has a wealth of knowledge and experience. She was first appointed to an NHS board in 1998 and since then has also served as the chair of West Hull Primary Care Trust and NHS Hull. As well as her post as chair of RDaSH, she is currently the audit chair at Locala (a CIC in West Yorkshire) delivering community and social care services, and the chair of the advisory board at Space2BHeard, a CIC in Hull which delivers talking therapies.
- Peter O'Brien leads the Yorkshire Universities’ (YU) Executive Team. With over two decades’ experience, as both a senior practitioner and academic, Peter has driven YU’s increasing and influential policy engagement and activity in Yorkshire. He has worked extensively at a senior level across the north of England, and he has published widely on a range of matters relating to local and regional development. Peter is a commissioner on the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission, and he also represents YU and the higher education sector on many high-level regional groups and committees.
- Mark Rogers is chief executive of the Leadership Centre. He has extensive leadership experience across education, children’s services, local and national government. As a teacher and head teacher, Mark worked in a variety of special schools between 1985 and 2000. He joined local government in 2001, working in inclusion services, becoming a director of children’s services (Solihull MBC 2006-09) and twice a chief executive (Solihull MBC 2007-14 and Birmingham City Council 2014-17). Following a period of consultancy work with CollaborateCIC and KPMG, in May 2018 Mark became director general for Children, Young People, Education and Skills for the Government of Jersey.
