The DHU Health Care Board of Directors and Non-Executive Directors bring together a wealth of experience and knowledge with many years working within the NHS, NHS provider services, Local Authorities and other public and private sectors.
Dr Bhatti has been with the company for 10 years and has been a practising GP since 2010.
He has overseen the growth of DHU from its roots of being an out of hours provider for Derbyshire (where he was the Clinical Director for 8 years) to becoming the Medical Director 2 years ago where he has a more strategic/governance role in developing the forward view of the organisation across the Midlands.
His interests revolve around improving access to primary/urgent care, the use of digital transformation to improve health, developing a sustainable primary care strategy along with understanding preventative health dynamics using best evidence.
She comes to DHU from Orbis Education and Care, where she was its first-ever Chief People Officer. She is a qualified Executive Coach and holds a Chartered Fellow Membership in Personnel Development (Chartered FCIPD).
Non-Executive Directors
Passionate about improving care and services for patients, she is a well-regarded representative of the patient voice both on national and international platforms and sits on a number of NHS England committees.
Gillian is also a Non-Executive Director at the Academy of Healthcare Science.
Phil Cox has been Senior Partner in Tideswell, Derbyshire for 21 years and has special interests in rural health and occupational health. He has an active research interest and has published on issues of rural health and healthcare in farming communities. He joined the Board of Derbyshire Healthcare in 2004, was appointed Medical Director in 2005 and was elected as Vice-Chairman of Derbyshire Health United in 2006.
For many years he was the Chair of Hardwick CCG before taking up the role of Executive Medical Director of Derby and Derbyshire CCG. It was in this role that his portfolio included primary care commissioning and quality, medicines management and clinical policy, strategic long term conditions commissioning and GP IT infrastructure.
He was System Senior Responsible Officer and architect of the covid vaccination programme and covid treatments programme. He also led system transformation programmes within Derbyshire, contributing to and chairing a number of work streams at regional and national level, particularly within urgent and emergency care.
Michele also holds regional roles – including Chair of the Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network, partner representative on the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and lead for the Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Collaborative.