NHS Derby and Derbyshire appoints new Non-Executive Member

Nigel Smith has been appointed as a new Non-Executive Member of NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board.

The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for meeting local health needs, managing the local NHS budget, ensuring services are in place to deliver against ambitions and overseeing the delivery of improved outcomes for the population. 

Nigel will take up his appointment from 1^st January 2025. Non-Executive Members also have broader responsibilities to help develop strategy and hold the ICB’s Executive Directors to account.

Nigel is a qualified accountant who worked for the Post Office and Royal Mail for over 30 years in a variety of Finance, HR and Health & Safety roles. He has been involved with the NHS in a variety of Non-Executive Director (NED) roles for the last 12 years, across community and mental health services, is currently also a NED at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, is Associate Hospital Manager in Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber and a Trustee at Derbyshire Districts Citizens Advice Bureau.

Nigel is originally from Wolverhampton and lived in Nottinghamshire before moving to Matlock.

Speaking about Nigel’s appointment, NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB Chair Dr Kathy McLean OBE said: “I am delighted to have appointed Nigel as a Non-Executive Member of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Board. Nigel brings a wealth of accounting and health service experience into this key role on our Board, during a period where NHS finances and operational delivery are challenged, and where financial stewardship has never been of greater importance. Along with the wider Board, I look forward to welcoming Nigel into his new position in January.”

Nigel Smith said: “I am delighted to have been appointed to the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Board. Having worked previously in the Derbyshire NHS, it is great to be returning, not least given it is the county in which I live. There is undoubtedly a challenging period ahead to build on the work of my predecessors, and to ensure we continue to meet our aims to improve local health, shift our resources more meaningfully from treating ill health to prevention and to tackle the health inequalities which exist among our population.”