Dr Abid Khan
Medical Director
Dr Abid Khan is the Medical Director of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. He is responsible for the professional leadership of all doctors employed within the Trust. He is the designated Responsible Officer for the purpose of revalidation by the General Medical Council (GMC) for doctors and is the Trust Caldicott Guardian for information governance purposes.
In addition to training medical students, junior doctors and peer students Abid is committed to training non-medical prescribers and the development of enhanced skills in other professionals.
Abid oversees the Research and Innovation Department and the Pharmacy services in this context and is Lead for the Medicines Optimisation Committee (MOC) that oversees prescribing practices and prescribing issues for our Trust in collaboration with community pharmacists.
Abid is supported by a Deputy Medical Director and Nine Associate Medical Directors.
Dr Jayanth Srinivas
Deputy Medical Director
Dr Jayanth Srinivas commenced in post as Deputy Medical Director in February 2022. This new role will involve him deputising for Dr Abid Khan, Medical Director and representing him at Integrated Care System forms such as the Clinical Senate. He will also support medical leaders in the care groups.
Prior to becoming Deputy Medical Director, Dr Srinivas has previously been a Clinical Director of Mental Health at NHSE/I, West Midlands, Clinical Director of Forensic Services at MPFT, where he was involved in setting up a Provider Collaborative across West Midlands. He has also held other portfolios within the Medical Directorate including being Associate Medical Director for Appraisal and Revalidation and Quality Improvement and the Mental Health Act (MHA). He is currently the Regional Advisor for the Royal College of Psychiatrists, West Midlands division.
Dr Muhammad Gul
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Accreditation of Trainers - Focus on CAMHS Mental Health / Director of Medical Education
Dr Muhammad Gul holds the portfolio for Accreditation of Trainers with a focus on CAMHS Mental Health. Over the last few years he has represented the directorate at different forums to ensure the Trust continues to provide evidence based quality care across all of its services.
As Director of Medical Education, Dr Gul has been working closely with Health Education England (HEE) and other partners in education to provide an environment which is conducive to education and training. The Trust has expanded its education and training portfolio in the recent past, offering training opportunities to more than 85 trainee doctors, Physician Associates from different Universities, as well as from the USA and medical students from Keele.
Dr Anwar Tufail
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Primary Care
Dr Anwar Tufail is the Associate Medical Director for Primary care within the Trust. He currently works one day a week for the Trust to provide professional and medical leadership under the direction of Dr Khan.
Anwar liaises with GP practices, Localities and CCGs for the Trust providing medical leadership, his role also includes close working relationships with Local Medical Committees in North and South Staffordshire. He is also responsible for reviewing incident reports involving primary and community care. Anwar represents the Trust attending internal and external meetings with a wide range of stakeholders.
Dr Amit Arora
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Intermediate Care
Dr Amit Arora is a nationally recognised and multi-award winning geriatrician. He joined the Trust in October 2018 as Associate Medical Director for Intermediate Care with the aim to develop community frailty and intermediate care services across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent and working collaboratively with the system partners to improve services.
He uses his experience in developing effective intermediate care services by collaborative working blurring the traditional boundaries between primary care, secondary care, ambulance services, social care, voluntary organisations, and housing agencies.
As the founding Director of the National Frailty Academy, he is keenly involved in workforce development. He also takes part in MPFT Quality Governance, Mortality meetings, Business Development, Research and a few other workstreams for MPFT including the development of Long Covid services and ICS wide Frailty Strategy.
Through his various roles of Clinical Director for Emergency Care Improvement Support Team, NHSI/E, Vice-President of British Geriatrics Society, and his roles in the NIHR and various national working groups and advisory bodies, he brings the wider national experience to the Trust.
Dr Jonathan Packham
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Leadership in Physical Health with Focus on MSK and related specialities
Dr Jonathan Packham is the Associate Medical Director for Leadership in Physical Health with a focus on Musculoskeletal and related specialities for the Trust. He provides medical leadership across the Trust, collaborating closely with both the Medical Director and the Head of Research and Innovation to ensure that research and innovation are core activities.
Dr Zafar Iqbal
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Public Health
The three domains of Public Health are Health Protection, Health Improvement and Health Care Public Health. Professor Zafar Iqbal is an experienced Public Health Consultant in all three domains and has held local Director of Public Health positions in his previous roles. Public Health is delivered by thousands of MPFT staff every day and this is recognised in the Trust Health and Wellbeing Strategy which he leads on. He supports many aspects of the Trusts work in promoting the Public Health of its workforce, patients and the local communities the Trust serves.
He provides support to the Medical Director in engaging local clinical leaders, Local Authorities and other partners. He also uses his expertise in epidemiology to support the Trusts strategy function, work on health inequalities and service development in Care Groups. He also has local system leadership roles on behalf of the Trust. Zafar has built a strong Public Health training function within the Trust.
He is a visiting Professor at Staffordshire University and holds two international Honorary Professorships. He has a number of national roles including being a member of the Faculty of Public Health Global Health Committee.
Dr Lisa Goodall
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Leadership and Research / Innovation - Focus on Sexual Health
Dr Lisa Goodall was appointed to the role of Associate Medical Director for Leadership and Research Innovation, with a focus on Sexual Health in 2018. In this role she provides clinical leadership in Sexual Health across the Trust and promotes involvement in research, innovation and audit across all of the Sexual Health teams.
Lisa also supports the AMD for Doctors with Concerns and is the Freedom to Speak Up representative for the medical directorate.
Dr Rano Bhadoria
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Appraisal and Medical Job Planning
Dr Rano Bhadoria is a Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry in South Staffordshire. She has worked in the Trust since 2010. Since December 2019 she has been the Associate Medical Director for Appraisals and Medical Job Planning. In 2020 she led on the implementation of a new electronic system of annual job planning for doctors and remains closely involved in the future development of this system. She works closely with Dr Khan, the Medical Director / Responsible Officer, along with Medical Staffing to ensure cohesion between the governance and structures for Appraisals, Revalidation & Job Planning in the Trust.
As part of her role, she also delivers annual training sessions to provide updates on appraisals and job planning to both doctors and managers.
Dr Rashi Negi
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Quality Improvement and Mental Health Act
Dr Rashi Negi holds the portfolio for Quality Improvement and Mental Health Act and started in post on the 1st March 2022. Quality, for Rashi, is something that she has always believed in, and she sees it as a 'habit, not an act'. She has led, contributed and successfully completed many Quality Improvement (QI) projects over the years and hopes to bring this experience to her new role, and to influence, engage and inspire her medical colleagues to take up these initiatives and help them to embed these into their day to day practice.
During the first 12 months in this new role, Rashi hopes to take a few initial steps by setting up a few focus groups with the help of her enthusiastic colleagues, where open discussion about quality initiatives can take place. This will give them an opportunity to explore ideas and set up some realistic outcomes, which would be a first step. Rashi hopes to build on this work further by exploring other initiative tools, such as quality dashboards, forums etc. Her aim is to triangulate QI's to appraisals, job planning, and service line objectives in order to fully embed them into our clinical practice.
Rashi will continue to undertake the role of College Tutor - South Staffs until this post is backfilled.
Dr Kieran Fernando
Associate Medical Director (AMD) - Doctors with Concerns
I have been a Consultant in Sexual Health & HIV Medicine in MPFT (formerly SSOTP) since 2013. I have also had a lead tutor / governance role for the MPFT physical health specialties contributing to the education strategy 2016 - 2022.
I took up my new role as AMD - Doctors with Concerns on 1 March 2022. I am keen to ensure we have impartial and fair processes which also support and protect both those raising concerns and those subject to investigation. My role will include liaising with partner organisations, including the Practitioner Performance Advice (PPA) service, and the GMC / GDC to ensure MPFT is managing investigations appropriately.
In my first 12 months in post I would like to achieve the following:
- To continue to maintain and optimise standards in investigative processes
- To offer training for new case investigators and refresher training for existing ones
- To formalise and facilitate links with relevant support agencies for practitioners undergoing investigation e.g. mental health / psychosocial and financial (both NHS and charitable organisations).
- By monitoring and reporting on recurrent themes we will look to identify learning opportunities for the organisation and preventative approaches.
Dr Matthew Tovey
Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO)
Dr Matthew Tovey qualified from the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2008, before undertaking his Foundation Years and deciding to undertake specialist training in psychiatry, and ultimately forensic psychiatry. He was appointed as a Consultant in 2016, and in 2018 was appointed as the medical lead for prison psychiatry. Matthew is passionate about improving the quality of mental healthcare, particularly in prisons and is a strong believer that staff wellbeing must be at the fore to achieve this.
Dr Tovey is responsible for the clinical leadership within the Trust's digital transformation agenda and is passionate about the use of technology to improve the working lives of staff and outcomes for patients.
Ben Hollands
Health and Wellbeing Strategy Manager
Ben Hollands is the Trust's Health and Wellbeing Strategy Implementation Manager. He is responsible for working across the Care Groups to achieve the objectives and ambitions set out in the Trust's Health and Wellbeing Strategy, particularly in relation to improving outcomes for patients, service users and their communities through healthier behaviours and better lifestyle choices.
In addition to the public health aspects of the Trusts strategy Ben will support work in relation staff health and wellbeing.
Dr Rob Dennis
Undergraduate Tutor - Consultant Psychiatrist / Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Rob Dennis is the lead clinician for the Eating Disorders Service. The service offers inpatient and out patient treatment to people suffering from Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
Dr Dennis also acts as the undergraduate lead for education, Stafford site. He takes overall responsibility for the pastoral care and delivery of the Keele curriculum to Year 4 medical students whilst they are on their psychiatry placement. This includes ensuring that students learning objectives are met through a range of seminars, workshops, and clinical 'bedside' teaching.
Dr Rajesh Sulake
Undergraduate Tutor - Shropshire
Dr Rajesh Sulake has worked for the Trust since 2006. He has worked across both Shropshire and Staffordshire. He is currently based at Pine Ward, Redwoods Centre working as the Responsible Clinician since November 2016. Pine Ward is the only female acute psychiatric ward across the Trust.
Dr Sulake has been working as an Undergraduate Tutor (Honorary Clinical Lecturer) at Keele University for the last 3 years. He is one of the medical appraisers, is keen on teaching, and one of the designated medical practitioners for training NMP's. He is a keen photographer.
Dr Nick Swift
Specialist and Associate Specialist (SAS) Tutor
Dr Nick Swift has been an Associate Specialist in adult psychiatry from 2004. He is based in South Shropshire. Nick is the SAS Tutor, helping the Staff and Associate Specialist doctors develop as educators, leaders, and highly valued members of the medical workforce. The Trust values this group of doctors with a wide diversity of experience and skills.
Nick has a special interest in postgraduate medical education and occupational health issues. He is also trustee of a charity providing education and development in rural Africa.
Dr Abhinav Rastogi
College Tutor for Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin
Abhinav is a Consultant in General Adult psychiatry for Telford Community Intervention Pathway. As the College Tutor for Shropshire, he is involved in delivering high quality postgraduate training to junior doctors placed in the region. He is also a Support Tutor for the Keele Medical School and is a CASC examiner for the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Dr Ravinder Hayer
College Tutor - South Staffordshire
Dr Ravinder Hayer is a Consultant in Older Adult Psychiatry for the Burton and Uttoxeter locality within East Staffordshire.
As College Tutor in Psychiatry for Staffordshire, Ravinder is responsible for the development and delivery of high quality Core Psychiatry, Foundation Programme, and General Practice training placements in this region.
Ravinder also leads the ‘Introduction to Psychiatry’ module for the Keele Cluster Core Psychiatry programme and supports with the organisation and delivery of the West Midlands School of Psychiatry Leadership course.
Dr Amandeep Gill
Lead Undergraduate Support Tutor - Physical Health and College Tutor / Educational Supervisor for Postgraduate Physical Health Training
Dr Amandeep Gill was appointed to the role of Physical Health Undergraduate Lead Tutor and commenced in post in July 2022. As part of this role she hopes to provide continued support to undergraduate physical health tutors across the Trust in ensuring robust governance and safety mechanisms are in place, allowing for continued provision of high quality education and training of medical, dental and physician associate students.
Dr Vinod Kumar
Medical Education Locality Lead for Leicester Sexual Health
Dr Vinod Kumar (MBBS, PhD, MFSRH, PGA, DipGUM), consultant in Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, has been appointed as the medical education locality lead for Leicester sexual health. In this role, he aims to work in collaboration to develop, co-ordinate and deliver high quality teaching and training to medical students and postgraduate trainees.
He has been working as a consultant at MPFT providing sexual health care across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) since 2015.
Dr Kumar is a member of the Examination Committee of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH). He is also a FSRH and BASHH registered trainer and regularly delivers FSRH Diploma, Letter of Competence and STIF competency training.
Dr Anita Suthanthira-Singh
Physical Health - Postgraduate Lead Tutor
Dr Anita Suthanthira-Singh is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine based at the North Staffordshire Rehabilitation Centre at Haywood Hospital since 2016. She has a special interest in Medical Education and holds a postgraduate diploma degree in Medical Education from Keele University. She is passionate about working with the wider team to ensure that the learning environment provided at MPFT meets the expectations of the training programme and MPFT continues to be a centre of excellence for providing postgraduate training.
Dr Andrew Campbell
Director of Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation
Andrew Campbell is the Director of Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation (Chief Pharmacist). Andrew leads and manages the Trust pharmacy services as well as three dispensaries. He is responsible for the strategic leadership in medicines optimisation and oversees the development and implementation of medicines-related Trust policies, procedures and guidance. Andrew is also responsible for assuring compliance with local and national drivers such as CQC-related standards of best practice in relation to the management of medicines.
Ruth Lambley-Burke
Head of Research and Innovation & Senior Management Support to Medical Director
Ruth Lambley-Burke is the Head of Research and Innovation for MPFT, where she provides leadership and is responsible for developing the Trust's vision for research and implementing the Trust strategy. Drawing upon her 20 years' experience and expertise in Research, Ruth ensures that research thrives across the NHS, academic and industry sectors, and is active in developing partnerships and collaborations to enable easier, faster research delivered and disseminated across the NHS and health and social care systems.
Ruth also provides direct senior management support to the Medical Director, building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, senior staff management, budget management, HR and other managerial aspects of the medical directorate. She holds portfolio responsibility for research, medical education, and Library & Knowledge Services.
Lisa Collins
Business Support Manager to the Medical Directorate
Lisa Collins works within the Medical Directorate Team supporting the delivery of service improvement projects, working with and supporting colleagues.
She provides effective administrative support, supports project management and ensures project governance is embedded and maintained. Her administrative duties include the co-ordination of report submissions from the Medical Directors' office.
Sarah Bromley
Executive Assistant to the Medical Director
Sarah Bromley joined the Medical Directorate in 2021. Sarah works as an Executive Assistant to the Medical Director. In this role she helps to co-ordinate and organise the work and diary of the Medical Director, arranging meetings and visits as well as undertaking administrative duties.
Shaiseta Khaliq
Office Administrator / Secretarial Support
Shaiseta Khaliq works within the Medical Directorate Team providing secretarial support to the Associate Medical Directors of Public Health, Intermediate care and Primary care.
Shaiseta provides effective and efficient secretarial support ensuring the smooth running of AMD’s diaries and coordination of all administrative projects and tasks assigned to her.
Dr Adeniran Adedoyin
Staffordshire Representative
Dr Adeniran Adedoyin joined the Trust as part of the West Midlands Core Psychiatry Training Programme in September 2020. From September 2021 Dr Adedoyin now forms part of the Junior Doctor Forum as CT Rep and is the point of contact for Junior Doctor related matters.
Dr Ben Clavey
Shropshire Representative - CT2
Dr Ben Clavey joined the Trust as part of the West Midlands Core Psychiatry Training Programme in August 2020. Dr Clavey now forms part of the Junior Doctor Forum as CT representative for Shropshire and is the point of contact for Junior Doctor related matters.
Dr Bhamini Patel
Dr Patel joined MPFT as an ST4 in General Adult Psychiatry in February 2022. She has very recently become the MPFT’s Higher Trainee BMA / LNP / JDF Representative and continues to receive training from the BMA for this role. Dr Patel hopes that she will successfully represent the higher trainees of the Trust with regards to contractual issues.
Louise Pope
Medical Staffing Manager
Louise Pope leads the Medical Staffing team within the Trust, which ensures that the Trust has the correct number of appropriate trained and qualified medical staff in post to provide effective and safe clinical services to our service users.
A few of the teams key roles include supporting the recruitment process for medics, sourcing locum medical staff, coordinating the rotation of junior medical staff 4 times a year along with production of their rotas, administration of the Trust's appraisal, revalidation, and job processes, recording sickness and advising on annual leave entitlements.
Louise and her colleagues provide support and advice to all medical colleagues within the Trust around terms and conditions of service, contract and pay queries.
Siân Shingler
Medical Education Service Lead
Siân Shingler joined the trust in May 2022. Siân's role is to shine a light on medical education at MPFT in collaboration with multidisciplinary education providers. Siân is working closely with the Director of Medical Education and Head of Research and Innovation to develop the medical education strategy in line with the Trust's vision. She also works alongside SAS, postgraduate and undergraduate clinical tutors to ensure effective delivery of medical education and supervision of SAS doctors, postgraduate trainees, medical students and Physician's associates, whilst leading the medical education administration team. Siân also works closely with the medical staffing team.
Caroline Simmons
HR Manager
Caroline Simmons is a HR Manager within the Trust, working with the Medical Directorate, the Quality and Clinical Performance Directorate, and Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Unplanned Care Group. She leads the provision of an operational and business-focussed HR service to these groups providing expert and dedicated operational HR support.
She manages and leads elements of the Operational HR function and is responsible for supporting the delivery of key projects in the Workforce Strategy, working collaboratively and in partnership. Caroline provides highly specialist and professional HR advice and coaching support to managers within the Trust.
In her role she will propose changes to and implement Trust HR policies and interpret employment legislation and case law and implement the required changes to Trust wide practices as required.
Claire Charnley
Library and Knowledge Services Manager
Claire has led and managed the Trust Library and Knowledge Services for more than ten years, and has managed library services in community and mental health organisations for over 20 years. The library service's vision is ‘Connecting knowledge and people, Informing outstanding care, Enabling innovation and learning’.
Most library services are now virtual but the service has physical library sites at St. George's and Redwoods. It provides a range of specialist library services while also collaborating with other Trust teams to promote evidence-based practice and access to high quality resources beyond the library. It works closely with other health libraries in the West Midlands and beyond.