Board members up to 30 September 2025

Social justice and improving inequalities have been the golden thread in Manjeet’s career. She has served as an NHS non-executive director in both mental health and acute trusts and currently she chairs the Audit Committee at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Manjeet is the ICBs Deputy Chair and also Chairs the ICB’s Finance and Investment Committee and the Strategic Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Forum.

She has been a chief executive in local government and served on the West Berkshire integrated care board in 2017. In her local government career, Manjeet developed neighbourhood working and multidisciplinary teams in Lincolnshire. Nottingham and Northampton. This included strengthening the voluntary sector voice, with sustainable funding and infrastructure strategies. Manjeet, who lives in Hertfordshire, has also been a national advisor to government on housing, social justice, health and care policies.

Felicity was appointed as Executive Lead for the BLMK Integrated Care System in September 2020, Accountable Officer for the BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group in February 2021 and in November 2021 was appointed Chief Executive (Designate) for the new BLMK Integrated Care Board, becoming Chief Executive in July 2022 when the ICB was created.

Felicity is a qualified and registered Pharmacist and maintains her clinical roots through her continuing professional development.

Previously she was the Director of Quality, Transformation and Delivery in the National Specialised Commissioning Team of NHS England and NHS Improvement. She has held senior leadership positions in the NHS over many years, including other Chief Executive Officer CEO roles and Director of Commissioning Operations for NHS England.

Dean held the Chief Finance Officer role at BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group. He was previously Director of Capital Planning and Estates for Herts and West Essex Integrated Care System and has held Director of Finance roles within the NHS for a number of years.

Dean is a Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies qualified accountant and has had an extensive career in finance.

Dr Andrew Rochford – Chief Medical Officer and Caldicott Guardian

Dr Rochford joined the ICB in March 2025 from the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, where he was a consultant gastroenterologist. He has previously held senior clinical positions at Barts Health NHS Trust and NHS England. His work to deliver urgent and emergency care improvements has earned him recognition both in the UK and abroad.

Sarah’s extensive portfolio covers all aspects of quality improvement, patient and resident safety, equity and safeguarding issues. Her passion to improve our healthcare provision also sees Sarah offering her services as an Improvement Advisor (Institute of Health Improvement (IHI) trained).

Sarah began her career training as a nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in London, where she went on to work as a consultant nurse in intensive care and a surgical ward sister for over 15 years. Sarah’s career has seen her work as divisional medical director for both Barnet Hospital and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. She has worked with many large organisations such as Google Health and Deepmind on Acute Kidney Injury application and on many critically important causes which has seen her publish papers on sepsis harm reduction and working for the High Security Infectious Disease Unit treating patients for Ebola and Lassa Fever. Sarah has worked in Malawi and Australia in critical care units.

Vineeta is Chair of the ICB’s Audit & Risk Assurance Committee. She brings strong commercial, change management and financial skills from her executive career in investment banking where she led international teams with responsibility for delivering profitability, and grew businesses through joint ventures, mergers and organic growth.

She has held non-executive and audit committee chair roles over the last ten years in the public and voluntary sectors including at Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group, local authorities, adult and children’s social care, and education.

Shirley is a Non-Executive and Senior Independent Director of bpha, a housing association providing social housing primarily across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. She has also held non-executive roles at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Whitehall and Industry Group.

A Milton Keynes resident, Shirley’s career has been as a people and change professional working initially in financial services before joining the Civil Service, where she held senior leadership positions in several government departments, including the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health.

Lorraine has a background in healthcare. A board director with over 20 years’ experience in the NHS and voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and is Chief Executive of a dental social enterprise.

Lorraine brings a wealth of senior leadership experiences within healthcare in both secondary care and primary care.

Alison has lived in Bedford for over 25 years and has had a long career in retail. She worked at Marks & Spencer and most recently for John Lewis Partnership as Retail Manager at Waitrose’s Bedford store.

Alison was previously Vice Chair of the BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group’s Governing Body as well as Chair of two committees of the Governing Body.

Alison Chairs the BLMK ICB Primary Care Commissioning and Assurance Committee and is Deputy Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee. Alison is also Our Senior Independent Director and Freedom to Speak up Guardian.

David is the Chief Executive Officer of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and has over 25 years’ experience as a Board director in the NHS for mental health, community and primary care Trusts as well as the acute sector.

David’s background is in finance and before joining the NHS worked in audit and consultancy for KPMG in London.

Ross is Chief Strategy and Digital Officer at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) and is the Executive Lead for CNWL’s services in BLMK.

Ross’s career has spanned strategy and transformation roles across healthcare providers and commissioners as well as the private sector. He is a partner member of the BLMK ICB representing the community and mental health sectors.

Joe Harrison joined Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH) in 2013, turning around the hospital’s quality, performance and finances and overseeing the extensive expansion and development of the hospital estate. Under his leadership MKUH has gained teaching hospital status and pioneered digital advances that have transformed patient care and experience. Alongside this, Joe has delivered wide-ranging initiatives to improve the working lives of the thousands of people who work at MKUH.

Joe was appointed as the National Director for Digital Channels in January 2023, overseeing the development of the NHS App. During his time in this role, the NHS App has seen a resurgence – one in five of the population aged 13 and over now log in monthly – with the ambition that a third of all interactions with the NHS will be delivered digitally within five years.

Joe was awarded a CBE for services to healthcare in the 2025 New Year Honour

Dr Tayo Kufeji is an enthusiastic and innovative GP partner at Newport Pagnell Medical Centre, a large GP practice in North Milton Keynes. He is the GP lead and the Clinical Director for The Bridge Primary Care Network (PCN) in Milton Keynes and covering over 29,000 residents. Dr Kufeji is Director of the Milton Keynes Primary Care collaborative, Primary Care Alliance:MK, and is also a board member of the out of hours provider organisation, Milton Keynes Urgent Care Services (MKUCS).

He previously served as a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) GP board member.

He also serves on the Board of Trustees for a local charity in Milton Keynes, helping to serve the community with his skills and experience.

Dr Swain is a GP at Blenheim Medical Centre, Luton. As a long serving GP he is passionate about the NHS and particularly about reducing health inequalities, combating social isolation and promoting population health by prioritisation and innovation.

He was a member of Luton Clinical Commissioning Group and has worked in a variety of portfolios including prescribing, prevention, health inequality, research and patient reference groups.

He has acted as the lead clinician for providing medical cover for intermediate care for patients discharged to nursing homes with provision of multi-disciplinary rehabilitation service.

Laura joined Bedford Borough Council as the Chief Executive in October 2021. Starting her local government career as a trainee planner, her main experience has been in “place” related responsibilities with a particular focus on town centres, neighbourhood regeneration and economic development.

Laura has always had outward facing responsibilities engaging with key partners including with the business community and on wider regional partnerships including working with the government to support the retention of the Vauxhall Van plant in Luton.

Laura’s last corporate director role was to take responsibility for adult social care, public health and housing during the COVID pandemic. A key area of focus for Laura has been children’s services with an OFSTED inspection in her first few months, achieving a good outcome and now providing support across the sector on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

Laura is leading the Bedford “place” work.

Marcel has been the Chief Executive of Central Bedfordshire Council since November 2020, and was the council’s Director of Place and Communities for the previous seven years.

Alongside his experience in local authorities he has worked in a range of roles throughout the UK and abroad, in the private sector and for government agencies.

Vicky has been Director of Public Health for Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes since 2020.

She has a background in analytics and demographics and has over 20 years’ experience across a range of local authority and NHS roles. She trained in public health in the East of England.

Michael joined Milton Keynes City Council in 2009. He was formerly responsible for children and adult services before being appointed Chief Executive in 2018.

The city council operates a large and diverse range of services and is a social housing landlord with 11,000 homes.

Michael has held non-executive director roles across a number of public and voluntary sector organisations. One of his areas of professional interest is youth and community work.

Maxine has led Healthwatch Milton Keynes since 2017 and was appointed as a Participant Member of BLMK ICB in 2023 for local Healthwatch under a collaborative agreement with Healthwatch Bedford Borough, Healthwatch Central Bedfordshire, Healthwatch Luton and Healthwatch Milton Keynes.

She has worked in leadership roles in healthcare related charities since 2007 championing the involvement and participation of people who use health and care services.

She has previously been a parent governor for the Inspiring Futures through Learning Trust (IFtL) until 2024, and is currently a parent governor for the Kingsbridge Educational Trust (October 2024 – present) . Both in Milton Keynes.

Maria has worked as a director in the BLMK system for over 16 years and prior to that has worked in Local Government and for NHS Direct, English Heritage and the CQC. Her Integrated Care Board role includes strategy, planning, performance, communications, transformation, mental health, learning disabilities and autism services and working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector. Maria is also the Link Director for Milton Keynes, and the ICB’s Deputy Chief Executive.

Maria was previously deputy Chair of Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, a community and mental health NHS trust.  She was chair of MK Arts for Health for eight years and is a member of Inspiring Futures Through Learning, a Multi-Academy Trust working in MK and Northamptonshire.

Martha has 30 years’ experience working in all areas of the NHS, joining as a national fast stream general management trainee.  Having specialised in organisation development (OD) she worked in national turnaround teams, based in failures in clinical governance.  Using that OD expertise Martha worked as corporate lead in NHS England in its early days.  Before the ICB was established, Martha was the Director of OD in the CCG and was appointed to Chief People Officer in the ICB in July 2023.

Martin Towler is an elected Councillor for Bedford Borough Council, first elected in 2015.

Councillor Towler was appointed as a Co-Chair of the Health and Care Partnership with Councillor Khtija Malik in October 2023.