By working collaboratively with staff across all organisations and grades, and bringing together our senior leadership, we want to strive to make improvements across the finance function and deliver the National Strategies in line with our regional vision.
Key areas of focus
Developing our people
The South West Finance Academy will promote NHS finance as a career, nurture talent and support growth in finance, innovation and leadership skills.
Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion
We will ensure that there is equality, diversity and inclusion in organisational culture and career development, as well as in recruitment.
Networking
We will increase the networking, sharing and collaboration opportunities across the region, and will focus on the health and wellbeing of our staff.
Regional Contact: Charlie Spicer – charley.spicer@hfma.org.uk
South West Finance Leadership Executive
Find out more information about the membership of the SW Finance Leadership Executive – responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of the South West Finance Academy.
- Chair – Sarah Brampton, Chief Finance Officer, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
- Vice-Chair – Simon Truelove, Director of Finance, Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Simon Gittoes-Davies, Chief Finance Officer, Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group
- Jeff Buggle, Regional Finance Director South West, NHS England & Improvement
- David Stacey, Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Chief Finance Officer, Torbay and South Devon NHS Trust
- Alison Henly, Director of Finance, Performance, Contracting and Digital, Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group
- Pete Papworth, Chief Finance Officer, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Andrew Rosser, Chief Finance Officer, South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Cath Leech, Chief Finance Officer, Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
- Johanna Bogle, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Padma Ramanan, Head of Finance, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
- Annika Carroll, Finance Director, Wiltshire Health and Care
- Cathy Costello, Head of Financial Reporting, NHS England and NHS Improvement
- Peter Fry, Head of Income and Costing, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
- Becky Vine, Senior Programme Manager (South West Academy), HFMA
- Tracy Smith, Learning and Development Manager, HFMA
- Natasha Plant, Programme Co-ordinator, One NHS Finance
