Non Executive Board Members
Ken Corsar
Ken Corsar, Chairman, NHS Lanarkshire, is a graduate of St Andrews University (M.A.) and Glasgow University (M.Ed). He is a qualified secondary school teacher and taught in Uddingston Grammar School before entering educational management in Strathclyde Regional Council. Latterly he was Director of Education in Glasgow City Council.
Ken has also worked as a Scottish Director for the National Deaf Children’s Society and has a special interest in new-born hearing screening and early intervention. He has been a non-executive member of the NHS Lanarkshire Board since April 2003, and was appointed as Chair of NHS Lanarkshire Board in November 2005.
John Anning
John Anning was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2005. John retired from full time employment as a Senior Civil Servant with the Department for International Development in August 2006.
His career in the public service has included a wide range of jobs including project and programme management and management review for various aspects of the UK’s development assistance programme and financial and human resource management for the department as a whole. John worked in DFID’s headquarters in Abercrombie House, East Kilbride from 1991 until his retirement, where latterly he held the position of Head of Corporate Human Resources. He is a HR professional and Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.
John Chairs the North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership Operating Management Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee. John lives in Lanark.
David Clark
David Clark was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2005. After graduation and qualifying as a secondary teacher, David taught in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand before taking up a research and teaching fellowship at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and working for the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company. Returning to the UK, he spent 15 years in the field of housing and care for older people in Scotland, specialising in the development of services for those affected by dementia, and was appointed Chief Executive of Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland in 1994.
David is a member of the Minister’s National Advisory Committee on Stroke and serves on several Managed Clinical Networks for Stroke, Coronary Heart Disease and Respiratory Illness. He has served on a wide range of local and national planning groups and review bodies, including the NHS QIS Project Board for Stroke and the SIGN Guidelines Development Group for CHD.
David is a member of the Health and Clinical Governance Committee, the Acute Operating Management Committee and the North Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership Operating Management Committee. He lives in East Kilbride.
Terry Currie
Terry Currie was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2004. Terry’s early employment history includes 15 years with British Steel. Since 1983 his career has been in the Business Development sphere, involving appointments as Director with: Monklands Enterprise; Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire and Scottish Enterprise National. He is currently Director, Growing Business with Scottish Enterprise National.
Terry holds Board Member positions with Scottish Business in the Community and New Lanarkshire Limited. He is Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Lanark. Terry is Chairman of the Acute Division Operating Management Committee, and is a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee. Terry lives in Motherwell.
Neena Mahal
Neena Mahal was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in April 2004. Neena is a freelance training consultant specialising in the fields of equality, personal and organisational development. As a qualified careers adviser she has a background in education and community development work and has served on a number of committees promoting social inclusion and initiatives for young people.
Neena is a former member of the Broadcasting Council for Scotland and founder member and former Director of Scotland’s first information and resource centre for Black and Minority Ethnic women. Neena is a Trustee of the BBC Children in Need Appeal and a Trustee of National Museums Scotland.
Neena is currently Chair of the South Lanarkshire Community Health Partnership and was also Chair of the Board’s Equality, Diversity and Spirituality Committee until 2007. She is also a member of the Health and Clinical Governance Committee, the Staff Governance Committee and the Remuneration Committee. Neena lives in Cumbernauld.
Eddie McAvoy
Eddie McAvoy was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in September 2001. Following a career working for Hoover, Cambuslang for 27 years, he was elected to South Lanarkshire Council in 1995 and took up the position of Depute Group Whip, then Depute Group Leader. Eddie was re-elected to the Council in 1999 and elected as Leader of the Council. He was re-elected to the Council in 2003 and re-elected as Leader. He was re-elected to the Council in 2007.
Eddie is a member of the Equality, Diversity and Spirituality Committee. He lives in Rutherglen.
Jim McCabe
Jim McCabe was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in 2001. Jim commenced his working life as a miner, followed by spells as a fitter erector and work offshore. He worked with Strathclyde Regional Council’s Social Work Department from 1985 – 1987. In 1992 he was elected as a District Councillor with Motherwell District Council where he served as Vice Convener of Environmental Services. Following Local Authority reorganisation in 1996, he became Depute Leader of North Lanarkshire Council and was appointed Leader in 1998. He has recently been re-appointed as Leader of North Lanarkshire Council, following the Local Authority Elections in May 2007.
Jim is a member of the Committee of Regions in Europe and Leader of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) Labour Group. Jim is a member of the Equality, Diversity and Spirituality Committee. He lives in Uddingston.
Sandra Smith
Sandra Smith was appointed to the Lanarkshire NHS Board as a Non-Executive Director in August 2006. Sandra’s background is in community development and social housing. Formerly depute director of a housing association, she has extensive experience of regeneration, community controlled housing services, and organisational management.
Sandra was previously practice teacher in a community development training unit and a detached youth worker. She now provides consultancy services in the voluntary sector and is a member of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland.
Sandra is a member of the Audit Committee, the Staff Governance Committee and the Equality, Diversity and Spirituality Committee. She lives in Dalserf.