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Executive DirectorsJohn Rogers - Chief Executive
He has worked in the health sector for the last 16 years, during which time he has been involved in national workforce development as a Director at the NHS Training Authority and at a national level with the Department of Health. Brian Payne - Executive Director of Strategy
Brian has over 35 years experience of healthcare management in the public and private sectors. Brian joined the NHS in 1972 on the national graduate management entry scheme before managing hospitals in the North West and West Midlands before spending six years as Chief Executive of a Health Authority in East London. He moved from there to the National Audit Office where he was Director of Health for a number of years before moving into the private sector as Managing Director of ATM Consulting, a management consultancy company specialising in healthcare management. Sam Gallaher - Executive Director Local Workforce Solutions
Sam has held a number of senior positions in both the public and private sectors mostly working in and with health sector organisations. From a background in construction, capital planning and investment, Sam progressed from positions in health estate management to leading major organisational change. In the early 1990s Sam was involved with The Resource Management initiative leading a major IT and OD programme in a large teaching hospital. From 1996 Sam was Regional Director with the specialist health intelligence and benchmarking consultancy, CHKS with responsibility for most of the UK and Ireland. Christina Pond - Executive Director Policy & Skills Development
Christina qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1980 and practiced clinically for ten years before moving into the first of a series of operational management posts and strategic leadership roles in the Health Service. In January 1998, she became Chief Executive of East Berkshire Trust for People with Learning Disabilities and moved to the Department of Health in September 2000 as Head of Learning and Performance Processes. From 2001 to July 2005 she worked for the NHS Leadership Centre initially as a National Programme Director for Team and Network Leadership and subsequently as Acting Director of the Centre. |
John Rogers has been the Chief Executive of Skills for Health since its establishment in April 2002. Prior to this John was the Chief Executive of Healthwork UK, the national health training organisation, between 2000 and 2002.
Brian Payne joined Skills for Health in 2004 and has responsibility for strategy and business planning, marketing and communications, HR, labour market intelligence, research and the national networks based in N Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Sam Gallaher heads the Local Workforce Solutions Directorate focused on supporting local health employers with skills development and workforce redesign to improve productivity and effectiveness.
Christina Pond joined Skills for Health in 2005 and has responsibility for the development of SfH position on, and response to, Health, Education and Skills Policy through the development of national occupational standards, qualifications and apprenticeship frameworks that support learning supply and facilitate skills.