Last updated: 3 July 2025

Name

Interests Declared

Suresh Ariaratnam

Non-Executive Director

  • Director, Sprung Sultan
  • Director, Norland College
  • Non-Executive Director, NHS Somerset
  • Trustee, The Trussell Trust
  • Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
  • Member, Advisory Council of The British Library
  • Trustee, Literature Works South West
  • Trustee, Theatre Royal Bath
  • Deputy Lieutenant, Somerset Lieutenancy 

Matthew Bryant

Joint Chief Executive

  • Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Chair at Haselbury Plucknett Parish Council
  • Trustee at The Jared Gear Almshouses Charity  
  • Trustee at Haselbury Plucknett Village Hall Trust
  • Visiting Specialist at Plymouth University Medical School
  • Senior Independent Trustee, Hospiscare and Hospiscare Exmouth and Lympstone
  • Member of the Dorset Integrated Care Board (Mental Health Partner Representative)

David Clayton-Smith

Joint Chair and Non-Executive Director

  • Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Chair, Unity Insights (Health Analytics, CLG)
  • Trustee, National Centre for Creative Health

Dawn Dawson

Joint Chief Nursing Officer

  • Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Uncle Elected Kingston and Borough Committee GP and Clinical Lead, Deputy Medical Director (NHS England) and Co-Chair London Mental Health Strategic Clinical Network
  • Daughter, Interim Associate Director of HR in Somerset ICS
  • Daughter’s husband, is Registered Nurse degree apprentice on Waterston Ward
  • Son, registered nurse and theatre lead with SpaMedica
  • Son is a sales representative for Stryker IVS South & Southwest
  • Son’s wife, Assistant Divisional Management Accountant at Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust

Kristin Dominy

Chief Operating Officer/Deputy Chief Executive Officer

None

Andreas Haimboeck-Tichy

Non-Executive Director

  • Director, Harbour View (Swanage) Management Company Ltd
  • Managing Director and shareholder of Accenture Plc
  • Wife is HR Director for DJO Ltd, a Medical Device Company

David Haslam

Non-Executive Director

  • Chair of Trustee Board – Young Lives vs Cancer
  • Senior Advisor, Kaleidoscope Health and Care
  • Professor of General Practice, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Member of Faculty of Healthcare Leadership Academy
  • Patron: The Louise Tebboth Foundation
  • Daughter, Dr Kate Haslam is a General Practitioner and a GPwSI in Dermatology

Jenny Horrabin

Joint Director of Corporate Affairs

  • Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Independent Audit Committee Member - Citizen Housing
  • Trustee of Coventry Sports Foundation

Chris Hearn

Joint Chief Finance Officer

  • Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Partner a Trustee at Coastal Learning Partnership

Nick Johnson

Joint Chief Strategy, Transformation and Partnerships Officer

  • Board member of Dorset HealthCare
  • Board member of Dorset County Hospital
  • Director for Dorset County Hospital Subco Ltd
  • Director for Dorset Estates Partnership LLP
  • Director for Health Innovation Wessex Ltd
  • Partner, employee of Skills for Care

Eiri Jones

Joint Non-Executive Director

  •  Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Non-Executive Director (SID) Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

Lucy Knight

Chief Medical Officer

Nil

Claire Lehman

Non-Executive Director

Non executive directorships – Southwest Ambulance FT (since July 2024); Great Western Hospital FT (April 2023-April 2025).  Advocacy for Parkinson’s disease, including but not restricted to Cure Parkinsons, Parkinson’s UK, Critical Path for Parkinson’s

Steven Peacock

Non-Executive Director

  • RNLI College Ltd
  • RNLI Trading Ltd

Tristan Phillips

Non-Executive Director

  • Chief Executive Officer, Poundstretcher
  • Director, O&O Holdings Limited
  • Director, Creeds Design & Print Ltd
  • Director, Roberts Flooring Contractors Ltd
  • Director, Lazy Yak Investments Ltd
  • Lazy Yak DM Ltd
  • Director, Andy Newell Limited

Nicola Plumb

Joint Chief People Officer

  • Role is a joint role with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Volunteer with the British Red Cross

Faisil Sethi

Chief Medical Officer

  • Trustee and Board Member, Hospital Rooms (Registered Charity)
  • Medical Advisory Group Member, NHS Professionals (NHSP)
  • Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University
  • Member of the National Retention Advisory Board, NHS England and NHS Improvement

Rachel Small

Interim Chief Operating Officer

  • Magistrate in HM Courts and Tribunals Service
  • Sister-in-Law works as a district nurse in Bournemouth team

 

Dave Underwood

Joint Non-Executive Director

  • NED at DCH
  • Chair of Royal British Legion Club West Hill Ltd Registered IP23677R on the FCA Mutuals Public Register
  • Associate of Exeter College - College of Further Education
  • Policy Board member of the SW Business Council - The economic partnership for the South West of the UK
  • Chair of the West Country Computing Hub
  • Member of the University of Exeter Digital Advisory Network

Frances West

Non-Executive Director

  • Non-Executive Director, Tricuro Support Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director, Westward Housing Group
  •  Non-Executive Director – Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust