Meet the team

John spent 42 years in health services in the NHS and Civil Service.  He originally trained as a nurse and also held chief executive posts in NHS Trusts and a PCT.  John received the CBE in 2007 for leading national prisoner healthcare reforms and was Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for prisons and public health in Europe. In 2014 he became Chair of Bury GP Federation and in 2017 of Primary Care Sheffield.  John was  Vice Chair at NHS Sheffield CCG, chairing the Primary Care Commissioning Committee until joining PCS.  Born and bred in Sheffield John has always lived in the city and remains passionate about the place, its’ people and one of its’ football teams!

Nicki joined PCS in July 2020 and is a member of the Executive Team. She is the Deputy Chief Executive and the Director of Strategy and Operations. Nicki has over 20 year’s NHS experience  in primary care, secondary and tertiary hospital care organisations as well as in commissioning

Steve is a member of the Executive Team at PCS and is the Commercial Director for the company.  He is also the Executive Lead for the Primary Care Work Stream of Sheffield’s Accountable Care Partnership. Steve formerly managed GP practices and prior to entering primary care was commissioned in the Royal Navy.

Chris is the Practice Manager at Grenoside Surgery and represents the practices in this part of the city in his role as a Non-Executive Board Member. Chris has been involved with Primary Care Sheffield from its very inception.  He has worked in the NHS in Sheffield for over thirty-six years largely in senior Human Resources roles in both the Acute and Community healthcare settings. He chairs Primary Care Sheffield's Remuneration Committee.

Andrew is Practice Manager of The Mathews Practice and a member of the PCS Board representing the Central locality.

Fleur is a practising GP partner at Hackenthorpe Medical Centre and a member of the PCS board representing Hallam and South locality. Her interests include sexual and reproductive healthcare and care of the elderly, particularly care home residents.

Emma joined PCS in July 2015. Emma has worked in communications and marketing roles for 15 years, including roles in national NHS communications, Higher Education marketing and Account Management at a creative agency. She studied Journalism at the University of Sheffield and has a Masters in Professional Communication. At PCS Emma leads on all communications and marketing activity and strategy.

Georgia joined the team in January 2018 as Primary Care Resource Manager where she was responsible for maximising value and buying power for shareholding practices. More recently, Georgia has taken on the role of Commercial Development Manager to support the delivery of PCS' overarching Commercial Strategy.

Sue joined PCS in October 2018 as Executive Assistant to the CEO and Executive Team.  She previously worked at Sheffield CCG as PA to the Accountable Care Partnership Programme Director prior to which she spent 30 years as a Senior Personal Assistant in Central Government in London, working for senior Civil Servants and Ministers in a variety of departments including, Employment, the Cabinet Office, Government Office for London and, latterly, the Department of Transport.

Martin joined PCS in August 2017. His previous roles include Assistant Chief Finance officer at North Derbyshire CCG and roles within Sheffield PCT, Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, Sheffield West PCT and the former Health Authority. He began his career as an accountant in local government in Essex in the 1980s and joined the NHS in 1990. He has also been a Governor at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and spent many years as a Board member on Voluntary Action Sheffield.

Chris joined PCS in June 2018 and is responsible for PCS’s ‘at scale’ services portfolio, which includes Extended Access to General Practice, Sexual Health Sheffield, CASES and NHS Health Checks. He has a commercial operations background and has held senior leadership roles in national and multi-national organisations, most notably as commercial executive and assistant company secretary for Olympus Corporation in the UK and Ireland and regional director for St John Ambulance where he was responsible for over 3500 people. Chris is a member of the Fitness to Practise Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, a Chartered Manager and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He also volunteers as a trustee/director of the Sheffield Wednesday FC Community Programme.

Haseema joined PCS in June 2018, working across both the elective and urgent care teams as an administrator for CASES, ECGs, Vasectomies and Hub services. Before joining PCS,  Haseema spent six years as an Administration and Finance Manager in a secondary Islamic school where she supported the executive team and trained admin apprentices. She also worked in partnership with Universities and other organisations to run successful projects within the school. Haseema is happily married and in her spare time loves baking cakes and spending time with family and friends

Lucy is currently Clinical Director for Primary Care across the seven GP practices that PCS runs. Prior to this Lucy had been a GP partner for 15 years in the North of  the City and was also a member of the PCS Board representing the practices in the North. Lucy is a GP trainer and has sat on the Mental Health and Learning Disability Delivery Board representing PCS. She has recently taken up a new role as a trustee of St Luke's.

Jon is a GP and a clinician-scientist.  His academic research focuses on neurological disorders especially epilepsy and seizures, he is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield where he is an investigator on a number of large grant-funded projects, and is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. Within the Primary Care Steering Group (PCSG) of the NIHR CRN Y&H he guides and advises on how to optimise integration of primary care research with hospital specialities.  And he leads the Sheffield Primary Care Research (SPCR) cluster which is a collaboration of eight GP surgeries who deliver complex academic and commercial research studies. He is the Clinical Lead for our Research Office