\n North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) now share a unified board of non-executive directors under the Bristol NHS Group, established in April 2025.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ingrid Barker, group chair of the Bristol NHS Group, said: “I\u2019m delighted to have appointed a single Board for our Group and look forward to working with them as we strive to achieve our vision for seamless, sustainable, high-quality care for the benefit of our Patients, our People, our Population, and the Public Purse.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Non-Executive Directors play a crucial role in the safe and effective running of the NHS and each appointee to our Bristol NHS Group Board brings valuable skills and experience from a wide variety of roles within the wider community to our two Trusts.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The new non-executive board members are Martin Sykes, UHBW vice chair; Sarah Purdy, NBT vice chair; Linda Kennedy; Marc Griffiths; Richard Gaunt; Roy Shubhabrata; Shawn Smith, NBT; and Sue Balcombe, UHBW.\n<\/p>\n
\n In July, the group announced plans to explore becoming a single organisation to achieve greater economies of scale.\n<\/p>\n
\n In the meantime, the boards of NBT and UHBW will continue to meet \u2018in common\u2019 as a single group board, working alongside the new single Group Executive team formed in the same month.\n<\/p>\n
\n Two organisation-specific Non-Executive Directors will provide an independent voice for each organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) now share a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115155924962881478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}