Abigail Jago
Director of Strategy and Partnerships (non-voting director)

Abigail Jago joined the Trust in February 2023 from East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust where she was Deputy Chief Operating Officer – Planned Care.
Prior to that Abigail was Director of Operations at Queen Victoria Hospital from May 2018 to March 2022 and has delivered strategic and operational senior roles at Barts Health NHS Trust including leading clinical strategy development.
Since joining the NHS in 2000, she has managed services across multiple sites and has led change programmes in both an acute setting and with multiple partners across health and social care systems including one of the national Vanguard programmes.
Abigail is passionate about the NHS and the delivery of partnerships and system wide improvement.
Board of directors
- Jackie Smith, Chair
- Tony Chambers, Interim Chief Executive
- Miss Tania Cubison, Medical Director
- Nicky Reeves, Chief Nurse
- Stuart Rees, Interim Chief Finance Officer
- Gary Needle, Senior Independent Director
- Paul Dillon-Robinson, Non-Executive Director
- Karen Norman, Non-Executive Director
- Kevin Gould, Non-Executive Director
- Shane Morrison-McCabe, Director of Operations (non-voting director)
- Lawrence Anderson, Interim Director of Workforce & Organisational Development (non-voting director)
- Clare Pirie, Director of Communications & Corporate Affairs (non-voting director)
- Abigail Jago, Director of Strategy and Partnerships (non-voting director)