The Christie NHS FT Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

Executive directors

his career has been spent in competitive industries with a focus on customer service. He has a degree from Leeds University and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Roger Spencer Chief Executive

Roger has been undertaking the role of Chief Executive at The Christie since December 2013. He has managed significant service developments including networked radiotherapy and chemotherapy centres across Greater Manchester, transforming the delivery of Christie services to an outpatient model. He directed the establishment of Christie partnerships for pathology, specialist diagnostic services and private patients, academic investment plan and the establishment of the first national proton therapy service in the UK. In 2016 he led the Trust to a CQC Outstanding rating, repeated again in 2018. Roger led for Greater Manchester on the National Cancer Vanguard developing and testing new models of care and was a member of the long term plan working group. He is the executive lead for Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. In December 2018 Roger was appointed to the Healthcare UK Advisory Board. The Advisory Board is accountable to the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) ministers.

Tarun Kapur CBE Non-executive director

Tarun was appointed from 1 st June 2016 and is a member of the quality assurance committee. Tarun is the CEO of The Dean Trust, comprising 10 schools across four local authorities. He was appointed as the first national leader of education (NLE) in the North West and since 2005 has led on many significant school to school support commissions. He has been an advisor to the Department of Education and speaks regularly on educational issues. Tarun, as the headteacher at Ashton on Mersey School, won secondary headteacher of the year 2007. He is chairman of the Football Foundation facilities panel (FA and Premier League), which is the largest sports charity in the country. He is a director of the Manchester United Foundation Board that is dedicated to community provision in sport, education and employability. Tarun was awarded a CBE in 2008 for services to education and in 2015 was nominated as one of 250 of the most influential people in Greater Manchester.

Roger holds an MBA, an honours degree in Nursing Studies and is a Registered Nurse.

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