Angela is the Group Chief Executive of two NHS Trusts who provide Mental Health and Community health services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust) and Northamptonshire (Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust). She was appointed to LPT in July 2019, when NHFT provided a buddy trust support relationship to LPT. In April 2020 both trusts formed a group model recognising mutual opportunities to continue to learn together whilst maintaining separate organisations.  

Angela’s NHS career spans 36 years, starting initially as a Speech & Language therapist, before holding a variety of leadership positions.  Angela has been listed in the HSJ Top 50 rated CEOs five times in the past seven years, named as number one in 2023. In July 2019 Angela was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Northampton for her leadership contribution and in 2023 was recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List, receiving a CBE for her contribution to healthcare.

Angela’s ethos is in her commitment to upholding the highest values, listening and learning, and developing compassionate cultures for those we work with and for those we care for. Co-production and involvement with patients, service users and carers are a priority, particularly in relation to tackling health inequalities and reaching out to local communities to transform mental health and community health services together for the best patient and service user outcomes.   

Mandy worked in the NHS for 31 years and has a first-class BA (Hons) in Health Studies and an MSc in Managing Change. She is a qualified performance coach and as passionate about nursing as the day she set foot in the Leicester Royal Infirmary as a student nurse!
Mandy has worked in many key nursing positions in England – from a ward sister in Gynaecology and Women’s Health to key leadership and Board positions: responsible for leading nurses and midwives during the creation of University Hospitals of Leicester and then as Deputy Chief Executive, NHS Leicester City. 
She also worked as a nurse researcher and nurse leader in Labrador and Uganda with the Grenfell and Mildmay charities respectively, with articles published in key nursing journals. After a visit to Cuba she developed professional links with nursing colleagues – sharing ideas and innovations. Mandy believes nursing and midwifery are global professions and works hard to see the leadership links across the world that bind us all together.
The recipient of many awards, she is a Florence Nightingale Scholar and most notably received her OBE for services to healthcare and nursing (2010). Mandy continued to immerse herself in the health quality and improvement agenda during her appointment in 2011 as Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean for the Faculty and Health and Life Sciences at De Montfort University, Leicester; she has recently been appointed as Pro Chancellor.
Mandy founded her own company in September 2014 and is the Managing Director of Mandy Ashton Consultants Ltd; a values-based company in south Leicestershire. She works alongside policy makers and leaders, care givers, patients, and families. Mandy gives some of her time and experience to local charities in Leicester and has recently completed a six year tenure as a Trustee within the Housing Association sector. 
Mandy is a mother and wife, has a wicked sense of humour, enjoys playing tennis and swims every other day.

Mary is a Partner at Capsticks, a leading law firm to the public sector.  Mary leads the procurement team and advises clients across the public sector on a range of public procurement matters from day to day issues through to complex and strategic processes and procurement challenges.  Mary regularly delivers training to clients and speaks at conferences on procurement.  Mary is the Deputy Head of Healthcare at Capsticks and examples of her NHS work include advising NHS Trusts on procurement processes for Managed Equipment Services for Pathology, Electronic Patient Records, Virtual Wards, Community Diagnostic Centres and Translation Services.  Mary also supports clients when they are challenged by bidders – Mary is part of the team currently acting for the 22 Integrated Care Boards being challenged by a clinical waste provider, SRCL.
Mary is passionate about supporting women in the legal profession and through her work.  Mary is a Chair of Capsticks Women’s Network (OWN) and also leads the firm’s relationship with the Healthcare Supply Association Women’s Network. 
Capsticks’ purpose is to deliver results that matter, putting people first, doing the right thing and at all times forward thinking. Capsticks aims to be the firm of choice for organisations who work to make a difference.  
With over 40 years’ experience across the full range of legal services, Capsticks has resolved some of the most ground-breaking, high-value and politically sensitive cases in the UK and delivers commercial, market-driven solutions that reflect the unique pressures faced by its chosen sectors. 

Ruw is University Hospitals of Leicester's (UHL) Director of Health Equality and Inclusion. In this role, Ruw is accountable for the trust’s approach to understanding and addressing health inequalities within the local population. This includes improving access to elective and non-elective care, ensuring that restoration of services is inclusive and equitable. Recognising that understanding the role that acute providers have to play in population health management and prevention is key to addressing health inequalities, Ruw works with colleagues across the Integrated Care System, Local Government and the Voluntary and Community Sectors to ensure that the services at UHL meet the needs of the local population. Ruw is also a practising consultant in Geriatric and General Medicine, with an interest in front-door frailty and admission avoidance.  

Laura, joined University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) as Chief Executive on 1 October 2024 from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), where she was Director of Strategy for seven years. 

Laura leads UHN across its two hospitals, working closely with Richard Mitchell, the Joint Chief Executive of UHN and University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) to deliver improvements to patient care, employment, research, education and finances.

Laura has delivered many achievements across her NHS career. At UCHL, she was responsible for the build and commission of two major new hospitals, including the commission of a proton beam therapy (PBT) service (one of only two for NHS patients in the UK). Laura has extensive experience in service redesign, business case development and project management. Prior to moving into strategy in 2014, she held several senior operational roles at UCLH, including the management of stand-alone sites. 

Laura is a Northamptonshire resident and has three primary-school aged children who were all born at University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Ann Jackson has been a registered nurse (RMN) for 41 years, starting and ending her formal career within Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Her academic interests and roles at the RCN and DH focused on practice development in mental health, women’s mental health and violence against women and girls.  She was Director of Nursing for St. Andrew’s Healthcare and Deputy Director of Nursing at NHSE.

Ann’s current leadership facilitation and coaching with clinical nurse/AHP leaders is focused on compassionate approaches to wellbeing, burnout and suicide prevention. She has recently authored a book chapter about ‘deep wellbeing’ in a post-covid world.

Nicola Poulter is a Client Partner at NTT DATA with a focus on strategic healthcare partnerships and large-scale digital transformation. She has over six years’ experience working in healthcare with major acute NHS trusts and NHS England.  Through NTT DATA’s long-standing partnership with University Hospitals of Leicester, Nicola supports the delivery of digital and data services to the Trust.  Nicola was a finalist in Tech Professional at the 2025 Women in Tech awards.

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