Management and trustees

Jim is a specialist in palliative medicine and the lead clinician for the inpatient unit at St Michael’s Hospice. He is involved in the delivery of the wider strategic management of palliative care provision for St Michael’s. Previously, he worked in various roles across the South West, including hospices, a specialist supportive care team for cancer patients in Cheltenham, and as a GP partner in North Somerset. No stranger to working for charities, Jim was formerly an RNLI lifeboat crew member and station doctor prior to moving away from the coast. In addition to leading the care of patients in the inpatient unit he holds regular outpatient clinics. Jim works closely with his colleagues in the community and county hospital to provide an integrated palliative care service across the county and neighbouring areas. Jim has a particular interest in the management of long-term medical conditions and medical education.

Having trained in the West Midlands, Maddy returned to Herefordshire to take up her consultant post which encompasses the strategic vision for community specialist palliative care across the county, with clinical practice within the hospice and the Wye Valley Trust specialist palliative care team. This way of working champions integrated care across settings, seeking continuity and seamless experience of services for our patients and those important to them. Living just over the border into Worcestershire, Maddy enjoys a busy life with her young family.

Catherine qualified as a nurse in 1986. She specialised in critical care nursing gaining clinical, management and education experience in London, Birmingham and Bristol. She was seconded to the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement which provided valuable project management and leadership experience. She returned to Wye Valley in 2003 where she held a number of senior positions including Nurse Consultant, Associate Director and Deputy Director. Catherine retired in 2021 but returned part-time to lead nursing digital project for the Trust.

Born just outside Leominster, Diana is a qualified chartered accountant with a degree in business studies and part of her early working life was in auditing and raising finance for small business’. Holloways, her family business which specialises in retailing furniture nationally, was set up with her farmer husband Edward over 30 years ago. She has and still is involved with several local schools as a governor and is trying to take more of a back seat now that her daughter Katie has joined the family business.

Gavin has lived in Herefordshire for the last 40 years. Gavin ran the Helping Hand Company in Ledbury until 2022. The company specialises in manufacturing products for the severely disabled a well as pressure sore prevention cushions for the NHS. He is an engineer by training having worked in Sydney, San Francisco and Toronto before returning to Ledbury to set up the Helping Hand company. He is a keen sportsman playing various racket sports including real tennis and is a passionate gardener.

Rebecca is a Partner at HCR Law specialising in Employment Law. Rebecca advises businesses and organisations of of all sizes with regard to people matters and has particular expertise in advising on issues affecting public sector organisations and those working with them, and issues which affect companies operating in the Defence and Security Sector, as Head of HCR’s Defence, Security and the Forces Sector. HCR is a top 60, full-service law firm with offices across the UK, including in the centre of Hereford and in Ross-on-Wye and Rebecca is a key member of HCR’s senior team. Rebecca moved to Herefordshire in 2014 and lives in Burghill with her husband and two young children.