The Trust Board is led by the Chair and has executive and non-executive members.
The Chair and Non-Executives are appointed by the Council of Governors for a specific period of time. The Chief Executive and all Executive Directors are appointed on permanent contracts by the Remuneration Committee.
David Wakefield – Chairman
Date appointed: April 2025
David Wakefield has held previous chair roles at NHS Trusts, including Chair of the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. He is a qualified accountant and has held several senior executive posts, including Commercial Finance Director for Royal Mail. He has also held a number of non-executive directorships.
David also serves as chair of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, in a joint role that strengthens collaboration between the two organisations.
The Chief Executive and all Executive Directors are appointed on permanent contracts by the Renumeration Committee. The Chairman and Non-Executive Directors are appointed by the Council of Governors.
Karen James OBE - Chief Executive
Date appointed: October 2014
Karen James OBE is the Chief Executive of Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust and has also been Chief Executive of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since 2020.
Having started her career as a Registered Nurse, she has held a number of executive leadership roles in large acute tertiary providers. Karen has significant experience in managing large scale change across complex economies and has been successful in the delivery of improvements in organisational performance.
Jonathan O'Brien - Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Chief Executive
Date appointed: October 2023
Jonathan has worked in the NHS for almost 20 years having initially joined as an NHS General Management Trainee. In that time, he has worked in operations management across acute trusts and mental health providers, including North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, where he was Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive for four years. Prior to that role, Jonathan was Director of Operations at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for three years.
Jonathan joined Tameside and Glossop NHS ICFT in January 2022 as Director of Strategy and Partnerships before becoming Chief Operating Officer in October 2023.
Throughout his career, Jonathan has maintained a keen interest in furthering his academic knowledge; he holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Manchester Business School, an MSc in Healthcare Leadership and Management from the University of Birmingham and a BSc in Business Studies from Lancaster University Management School.
John Graham, Chief Finance Officer
Date appointed: July 2022
John is an experienced Chief Finance Officer who has worked for a range of organisations including, a Health Authority, the North West Regional Office, the Directorate of Health and Social Care North, the Department of Health, a Strategic Health Authority, a Mental Health Foundation Trust and a leading University Teaching Hospital.
His most recent post has been that of Executive Director of Finance and Deputy Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, an acute teaching hospital. Prior to this John was Director of Finance & IMT at Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust.
John has also been the Chief Finance Officer at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since May 2019.
Jacqui Burrow – Chief Nurse
Date appointed: March 2025
Jacqui began her nursing career at Manchester Royal Infirmary, training as a registered general nurse, before working within the accident and emergency department.
In 2000, Jacqui embarked on a different path and trained as a health visitor, working across East Lancashire.
In 2014 Jacqui took on a role at the Northern Care Alliance, moving into strategic nursing and quality roles. This led to Jacqui becoming Deputy Chief Nurse at the Northern Care Alliance before joining Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (TG ICFT) in 2025. Jacqui became the joint Chief Nurse with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and TG ICFT in April 2026.
Dilraj Sandher - Chief Medical Officer
Date appointed: June 2022
Dilraj joined the Trust in June 2022 as Medical Director and a Trauma and Orthopaedic Consultant. From October 2025, Dilraj took on a new role as Joint Chief Medical Officer for both Tameside and Glossop IC NHS FT and Stockport NHS FT. After training within the northwest, he started his consultant career at Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he also held the position of Associate Hospital Dean. Dilraj joined the Trust from Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, where he began employment in April 2015, progressing to Deputy Medical Director.
Amanda Bromley - Chief People Officer
Date appointed: September 2014
Amanda is a highly motivated HR/OD professional with extensive operational and strategic experience, which has been obtained from holding senior HR positions in a number of organisations in acute, community and mental health services.
Amanda commenced her career at Tameside Community & Priority Services NHS Trust before moving on to Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, Tameside Acute NHS Foundation Trust and the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. She returned to Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in June 2013 and has led the establishment of the Mass Vaccination Centre with Tameside & Glossop being the Lead Employer for Greater Manchester.
Amanda is passionate about putting staff and patients at the heart of everything she does and she firmly believes that the development of a culture built around engagement, inclusivity, continuous learning and shared values enables an organisation to be successful and sustainable.
Amanda has been the Executive Director for people & organisational development at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since November 2021.
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Jackie McShane is the Chief Operating Officer for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. Although she is not an Executive Director at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, she is a member of the Joint Board.
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David Wakefield - Joint Chair
Date appointed: April 2025
David is our Joint Chair appointed to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (TGICFT). The trusts run the respective hospitals of Stepping Hill Hospital and Tameside Hospital alongside community health services in Stockport, Tameside and Glossop.
David Wakefield has held previous Chair roles at NHS Trusts, including his most recent as Chair of the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. He is a qualified accountant and has held several senior executive posts, including Commercial Finance Director for Royal Mail. He has also held a number of non-executive directorships.
David Curtis - Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: January 2020
David is a mental health and general nurse, having had a 40 year full time career in the NHS. He has held senior clinical and managerial positions in mental health, acute and community services and in nurse education. His last NHS position was the Executive Director of Nursing and Integrated Governance in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. In 2008 David was awarded an MBE for his services to Nursing and Health Care in Greater Manchester. David has also previously served as a Non-Executive Director in a health and wellbeing NHS foundation trust.
David has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since August 2025.
Anthony Bell, Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: April 2026
Tony is a qualified accountant, beginning his career in the private sector, largely with the Lex Retail Group.
More recently he has worked in organisations providing public services and with a social value, including as Director of Finance at City College Manchester. There he was responsible for finance, estates and commercial contracts, and much of his work was focused on prison education as the college was the country’s largest provider of prison education.
In recent years he has developed a portfolio career as a Non-Executive Director in the NHS and social housing, most notably on the Audit and Risk Committee on the Guinness Partnership, a national provider of social housing with 60,000 homes and a turnover of £300m, and Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee of its largest subsidiary (Guinness Northern Counties).
He is also a Board member and Chair of the Audit Committee at Wythenshawe Community Housing Group, and ForHousing in Salford.
Tony has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since May 2021.
Louise Sell, Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: April 2026
Louise is currently working part-time as a consultant liaison psychiatrist with Bury integrated pain service operated by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.
A highly experienced psychiatrist, Louise was previously the Executive Medical Director at North West Boroughs NHS Foundation Trust, a post she held for seven years.
Other roles have included consultant addictions psychiatrist and service director at Greater Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and a clinical lecturer in addictions at the University of London.
Louise has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since October 2020.
David Jago - Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: February 2026
David’s career has been in the NHS for over 35 years working with NHS organisations in the North West.
He started his career as part of the NHS Financial Management graduate scheme in 1989 with the then Mersey Regional Health Authority. David qualified as a CIPFA accountant in 1991 and has worked in finance roles across a number of trusts within Cheshire and Merseyside and Greater Manchester. He has extensive experience in senior finance and director roles and is passionate about the role digital can play in transforming healthcare.
David has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since February 2026.
Michael Forrest - Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: March 2022
Michael’s experience includes working for nine years at North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) undertaking roles including Deputy Chief Executive, Director of Workforce and Interim Chief Executive. Michael is also a Non-Executive Director at BARDOC, which provides GP and dentistry out-of-hours services across Greater Manchester.
Michael began his career as a trainee at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council and went on to be Assistant Executive Director of People and Performance. Michael has also previously held the position of school governor for 11 years at two Tameside schools.
Michael is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.
Michael has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since April 2026.
Peter Blythin, Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: April 2026
Peter has over 50 years NHS experience across a variety of clinical and leadership roles including Trust, regional and national board director positions. He held the Chief Nurse post at the Trust Development Authority and prior to that was the Director of Nursing & Workforce at the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.
Peter also spent time at the Department of Health working on policy matters which included liaison with professional and health regulators. His most recent post was as Executive Director of Workforce & Corporate Business at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Peter is a Care Quality Commission Executive Reviewer and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Peter has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since April 2026.
David Coorey, Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: April 2026
David started his career as a commercial banker for several years before completing a B.Sc in nursing and post graduate renal qualification at the University of Sydney in 1990. David moved to the UK in 1991 and worked briefly for the NHS in Scotland before moving into industry.
A highly experienced commercial leader, his early career spanned Pharmaceutical, Clinical Nutrition & Medical devices both in secondary and primary care before gaining a post graduate qualification and Fellowship in marketing and running his own strategy consultancy for 5 years. Moving into Life Sciences in 2011, he has served in senior roles up to most recently Global Senior Vice President spanning discovery research, translational medicine, genomics and diagnostics. David was an advisor on the National Service Framework for Renal in the North West and has previously sat as a Non-Executive Director for the NHS in East Cheshire as well as mentoring young managers in the NHS for the North West mentor programme.
David has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since April 2026.
Farooq Hakim, Non-Executive Director
Date appointed: April 2026
Farooq is a seasoned executive with 30+ years of experience leading large-scale business and technology transformations. As part of Oracle Services’ executive leadership team, he has global responsibility for delivering services across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Multicloud solutions with Microsoft, Google, and AWS.
Previously at BT, he served as Chief Information Officer, Group Services, leading global digital transformation and contributing to major UK programmes including London 2012 and the NHS IT initiative. He has also held a range of civic and non-executive roles, including Chair of the University of Sunderland, and was appointed High Sheriff (2021/22) and Deputy Lieutenant of Tyne & Wear.
Peter has also been a Non-Executive Director at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust since April 2026.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (TGICFT) have been working collaboratively for several years. Both Trusts have committed to strengthen this collaboration and develop a joint organisational strategy to improve healthcare services for people in our communities and the staff who work in our organisations.
While both Trusts will legally remain separate NHS Foundation Trusts, our Trust Boards have agreed to align governance arrangements and delegate authority to a Joint Board Committee (known as the Joint Board) from 1 April 2026. The Joint Board includes the Board of Directors for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust. It will provide unified oversight of both organisations’ performance and our strategic ambitions, allowing the Trusts to work together to take decisions.
Members of the public are welcome to attend the public part of the Joint Board meetings. The meetings will be accessible via MS Teams. If you would like to observe a meeting, please email corporatemeetings@tgh.nhs.uk. Your request should be received before 12 noon on the Wednesday prior to the meeting.
Public Joint Board meetings are held every two months from 9.30am and the schedule of meetings is set out below. Meeting papers will be available prior to the meeting.
- 4 June 2026
- 6 August 2026
- 1 October 2026
- 3 December 2026
- 4 February 2027
A small number of matters have not been delegated by the statutory Board of Directors of Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust to the Joint Board. When a meeting of the Board of Directors is required to consider these matters, the meeting dates and any papers for items to be discussed in public will also be published on this page.
- 25 June 2026