Our Board
Our Board consists of:
- The Chair (Dr Linda Sheridan)
- Four voting Non-Executive Directors
- A non-voting Associate Non-Executive Director
- Our Executive Directors.
The Board is responsible for setting and developing the strategic direction of the organisation, sustaining business viability and holding the executive directors to account for all aspects of the organisation’s activities, including quality and safety of patient services, financial management and legal compliance.
The Board also seeks assurances from the Executive Directors that risks to the organisation are being appropriately assessed and managed.
The Board normally meets every other month, with briefings and development sessions held in the intervening months.
Board register of interests
Rukshana Kapasi

Rukshana Kapasi
Non-Executive Director (voting member)
Rukshana was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in July 2021. She is Barnardo’s first Director of Health, responsible for leading Barnardo’s transformation into a health and social care organisation. Barnardo’s delivers over 800 services nationally and has 158 health commissioned services from integrated child and family health hubs to early intervention community mental health services.
Rukshana is a nurse and has extensive expertise in transforming health services and leading equality initiatives in the NHS using patient/user/carer led coproduction whole system methodologies. Some of the outcomes of her research have led to PALS services being introduced in every hospital, Patient Choice in primary care and patient profiling to address health inequalities. She has experience of managing partnerships to improve healthcare and most recently was Chair of IBDUK, a collaboration of 17 professional bodies, such as the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, GPs, Physicians, Nursing, patient organisations and patients to coproduce Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) standards into a digital interface for multidisciplinary teams and patients to assess services independently to affect local change.
Committee membership and other responsibilities
• Member- Quality Committee
Appointment history
• Appointed from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2024
Board meetings
Members of the public are welcome to attend and observe meetings of the Trust Board. Currently Board meetings are held remotely by video conference.
Board papers and minutes of public Board meetings are published on this website in advance of meetings.
Meeting agendas include time for the public to put questions to the Board. If there is not enough time to respond to all questions, a response will be sent after the meeting. Questions from the public can be submitted by email either in advance or after the meetings.
Meetings start at 9.30am and end at 12.30pm (unless otherwise indicated). Dates of future meeting are below. This includes a Microsoft Teams link to join each meeting.
6 June 2023 - join the meeting
1 August 2023 - join the meeting
3 October 2023 - join the meeting
5 December 2023 - join the meeting
Board meeting papers 2023
This page features our Board papers 2023. Should you wish to receive papers from a meeting held before 2015 or require information about our Board and Board meetings please contact our Board Support Officer, Marina Sweatman at our headquarters or send an email, setting out details of the papers you require, to FOI@hchs.nhs.uk.
Board meeting papers 2022
This page features our Board papers 2022. Should you wish to receive papers from a meeting held before 2015 or require information about our Board and Board meetings please contact our Board Support Officer, Marina Sweatman at our headquarters or send an email, setting out details of the papers you require, to FOI@hchs.nhs.uk.
Board meeting papers 2021 - 2016
On this page you will find Board papers 2021 - 2016. Should you wish to see papers from a meeting held before 2016 or require information about our Board and Board meetings please contact our Board Support Officer, Marina Sweatman or send an email, setting out details of the papers you require, to FOI@hchs.nhs.uk.
Board papers 2021
- December 2021 Public Board papers
- October 2021 Public Board papers
- October 2021 Public Board supporting papers
- August 2021 Public Board papers
- August 2022 Public Board supporting papers
- June 2021 Public Board papers
- June 2021 Public Board supporting papers
- March 2021 Public Board papers
- February 2021 Public Board papers
Board papers 2020
- December 2020 Public Board papers
- December 2020 Public Board supporting
- October 2020 Public Board papers
- October 2020 Public Board supporting
- August 2020 Public Board papers
- August 2020 Public Board supporting papers
- June 2020 Public Board supporting papers
- June 2020 Public Board papers
- March 2020 Public Board papers
- March 2020 Public Board supporting papers
- January 2020 Public Board papers
- January 2020 Public Board supporting papers
Board papers 2019
- November 2019 Public Board papers
- November 2019 Public Board supporting papers
- September 2019 Public Board papers
- September 2019 Public Board supporting papers
- July 2019 Public Board papers
- July 2019 Public Board supporting papers
- May 2019 Public Board papers
- May 2019 Public Board supporting papers
- March 2019 Public Board papers
- March 2019 Public Board supporting papers
- January 2019 Public Board papers
- January 2019 Public Board supporting papers
Board papers 2018
- November 2018 Public Board papers
- September 2018 Public Board supporting papers
- September 2018 Public Board papers
- July 2018 Public Board papers
- July 2018 Public Board supporting papers
- May 2018 Board papers
- May 2018 Supporting papers
- March 2018 Public Board papers
- March 2018 Public Board supporting papers
- January 2018 Public Board papers
- January 2018 Public Board supporting papers
Board papers 2017
- November 2017 Public Board papers
- November 2017 Public Board supporting papers
- September 2017 Public Board papers
- September 2017 Public Board supporting papers
- July 2017 Public Board papers
- July 2017 Public Board supporting papers
- May 2017 Board papers
- May 2017 Board supporting papers
- March 2017 Board papers
- March 2017 Board supporting papers
- January 2017 Public Board papers
- January 2017 Public Board supporting papers
- AGM 2017 agenda and minutes
Board papers 2016
- November 2016 Public Board papers
- November 2016 Public Board supporting papers
- September 2017 Public Board papers
- September 2017 Public Board supporting papers
- July 2016 Public Board papers
- July 2016 Public Board Supporting papers
- March 2016 Public Board papers
- March 2016 Public Board supporting papers
- January 2016 Public Board papers
- January 2016 Public Board supporting papers