NHS Hillingdon Board Members

Ian Hill has previously been a Consultant to North East London Strategic Health Authority and is familiar with working at a strategic level in the NHS. A qualified Accountant and Corporate Treasurer, Ian has a wealth of experience in both financial and operational roles. By bringing his commercial and financial experience to the PCT, Ian will assist the organisation in achieving financial stability.

Nigel Foxwell joined the PCT in May 2006 as Associate Non-Executive Director of Hillingdon Primary Care Trust.In April 2007, Nigel was reappointed as Non-Executive Director and chairs the Audit Committee.

Nigel is an experienced Commercial Manager with an MBA from Business Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Most recently he was Managing Director of Micro Warehouse and European finance director of AST Computers.

Shun Au is director of TCM HealthCare and Carbon Solutions.

Shun also works as a Management and Project Consultant specialising in Community Engagement and Diversity issues. He has managed and delivered many consulting projects with clients in the Voluntary and Statuary sector, which includes Deafblind UK, National Institute for Mental Health, the British Army, Department of Health and the Metropolitan Police Force in London.

Shun graduated from University with a BSc in Psychology. He additionally graduated from Cambridge University with a M Phil in Linguistics and a MBA.

Shun has been actively involved in community work specialising in race equality and mental health issues for many years. His career spans the NHS, the Local Authority, the Voluntary sector and the Private sector.
Shun was appointed an OBE for services to the Chinese community in the Queen’s 80^th Birthday Honours list in 2006.

Shun enjoys music and films, is married with two children and lives in Hillingdon.

Allison Seidlar has spent over 25 years in the private sector as a Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry working for BT. She has held a wide variety of roles from leading technology and mobile start-ups to running multi-million pound businesses. She has held board positions both within and outside the business. Her current role within BT is Head of Industry Liaison BT Wholesale.

Allison has spent much of her career working with customers and is passionate about customer experience and championing new ways of working to give customers a better service. She takes a keen interest in diversity and women’s issues and has won awards for team building.

Allison is a Chartered Marketer with the CIM, and a member of the Institute of Directors. She has degrees in Environmental Sciences from Birkbeck College and University of London. She also holds a MBA from Henley Management College.

Betty Arrol now works as a part-time Freelance Consultant focusing on Organisational and Personal Development and on support to Voluntary Organisations.Betty has a varied background spanning work within the Private, Public and Voluntary sector.Originally engaged in teaching and then personnel work, she joined the National Health Service in 1973 and worked in a variety of Operational, Planning and Commissioning roles.These included Manager of Services for Older People, Manager of Services for People with a Learning Difficulty, Director of Planning and Director of Commissioning. In 1997 Betty left the NHS to work for Age Concern firstly as Health Policy Officer for Age Concern England and subsequently as Director of Age Concern Harrow.She remains active within Age Concern circles and has recently undertaken several Commissions for Age Concern London, and supported Age Concern Hillingdon on a voluntary basis. She also works as an Associate of JGA, a Private-sector training Organisation based in Eastcote.

Betty graduated from Strathclyde University Glasgow with a degree in Business Administration, and subsequently obtained the Diploma of the Institute of Health Management.

Betty is married and lives in Ruislip.Her leisure activities include Scottish Country Dancing, walking, travel, and involvement in Hillingdon University of the Third Age.

Betty was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Hillingdon PCT in January 2008.

Yi Mien Koh was appointed Chief Executive of Hillingdon PCT in June 2007, following a period as acting Chief Executive from March 2007. Her previous roles have included being NHS London Lead for Clinical Benchmarking and Health Protection, Medical Director and Director of Public Health and Performance of North West London Strategic Health Authority and Director of Public Health for Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority.

Yi Mien graduated in Medicine from Melbourne University and trained in Paediatrics and Public Health Medicine. A Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, she is also a visiting Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an Honorary Consultant at the Health Protection Agency, and Clinical Adviser to the Healthcare Commission. She is a member of NICE topic selection panels for Public Health, Maternal and Child Health, and NHS Research and Development Health Technology Assessment public health panel. She is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

In her leisure, Yi Mien enjoys reading, walking and going to the gym. She is also a school governor. Yi Mien is married with three teenagers and lives in Hertfordshire.

Kevin Mullins has over 25 years experience of working within the NHS and across Health and Social Care and joined Hillingdon PCT in November 2006. Kevin’s experience has included General Management and Executive Director capacities in specialist and general acute hospitals, community health services, mental health and Primary Care Trusts.

Kevin has worked extensively as a Health and Social Care Commissioner and is currently Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning at Hillingdon PCT responsible for acute, community and non acute Commissioning and also Primary Care.

Chris Jowett was born in Hull and trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and qualified in 1977. He spent his three year GP training course in Maidenhead, Windsor and Slough in Berkshire and became a principal GP at West Drayton in 1981, where he has been a full-time partner for twenty-six years and Senior/Management partner for twelve years. Chris was Chair of the Uxbridge and West Drayton Primary Care Group in 1998 and sat on the PCT board a year later, leaving the board after two years. He is Medical Director for Urgent Care for Hillingdon Health Limited which set up the new Urgent Care Centre in Hillingdon Hospital.

Chris chaired the PCT's flu, smoking and palliative care groups, standing down when he became chair of the PCT's Professional Executive Committee in June 2007.Chris also co-chairs the Hillingdon Hospital/Mount Vernon/ Hillingdon PCT Cancer Strategy Group and chairs the PCT's Priorities Setting Committee.