Abigail Jago
Acting Chief Executive
Abigail Jago became Acting Chief Executive in February 2025, having been Chief Strategy Officer since February 2023.
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 has held a number of strategic and operational senior roles including at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and Barts Health NHS Trust.
Abigail is passionate about the NHS and the delivery of partnerships and system wide improvement.
Page last updated: 7 February 2025
Board of directors
- Jackie Smith, Chair
- Abigail Jago, Acting Chief Executive
- Jane Dickson, Interim Deputy Chief Executive
- Tamara Everington, Chief Medical Officer
- Edmund Tabay, Chief Nursing Officer
- Jon Bell, Interim Chief Finance Officer
- Paul Dillon-Robinson, Non-Executive Director
- Jo Emmanuel, Non-Executive Director
- Russell Hobby, Non-Executive Director
- Peter O'Donnell, Non-Executive Director
- Shaun O'Leary, Non-Executive Director
- Vivek Chaudhri, Associate Non-Executive Director
- Aleema Shivji, Associate Non-Executive Director
- Kirsten Timmins, Chief Operating Officer
- Helen Edmunds, Chief People Officer (non-voting director)
- Leonora May, Company Secretary
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