The THT Executive Board is made up of representatives from all seven partners of the organisation. Ultimately responsible for the work of the Tower Hamlets Together partnership, the Board supports the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board, which sits at the top of our health and social care partnerships, enabling it to carry out its statutory duties in joining up effective care services for residents.
The THT Executive Board has a leading role in promoting the health of the population of Tower Hamlets and oversees health and social care integration, including service redesign, transformation and innovation.
The ethos of partnership underpins all work areas, with the recognition that, on occasions, difficult decisions maybe required by partners in order to deliver overall improvements for the Tower Hamlets population.
Dr Ashman has been associated with The Royal London Hospital for most of his medical career. Before beginning his position as chief executive in September 2022, he was deputy chief executive from 2017-19 and group director of clinical transformation for Barts Health from 2019 – 2022.
Dr Ashman specialised at The Royal London before being appointed as a consultant nephrologist – specialising in diseases of the kidney – almost 20 years ago.
Since then he has held a variety of key roles including chair of the medicine board, national clinical advisor for the NHSE Renal Service Transformation Programme, and London clinical lead for outpatients within the elective recovery programme.
He was deputy CEO for the period in which The Royal London team achieved a Good rating from the Care Quality Commission, and was influential in setting up key partnerships in Tower Hamlets with community services, GPs and the local authority.
Richard joined the ELFT as Director of Integrated Care in June 2015. He was previously Director of Mental Health and Joint Commissioning at NHS Tower Hamlets CCG where he worked as part of the East London Mental Health Consortium commissioning mental health services across east London. Prior to that, he worked in a variety of commissioning and provider roles. He is a qualified social worker with a degree in English Literature from University College London and an MPA from the University of Warwick.
Warwick has worked in the public sector for over 30 years and is a qualified social worker.He began his career working with young people in youth justice and then spent many years working as a community based social worker with young people and their families. Warwick has also spent time working in a community mental health team for adults, and on a young person’s inpatient mental health ward.
Prior to joining Tower Hamlets in May 2018, he led the joint commissioning arrangements for children in Lewisham, which was a joint team across the local authority and the CCG, working across the children’s partnership and across SE London. Warwick champions good quality services and effective commissioning as he has seen the real difference this can make to people’s lives and experiences.
Zainab was appointed as Tower Hamlets GP Care Group Chief Executive in April 2023, prior to this she was the Care Groups Chief Financial Officer since August 2018.
Before joining GP Care Group Zainab worked as Divisional Head of Business Transformation at Central and North West London Mental and Community Health Trust. Prior to working within the National Health Service, she worked across a range of private sector organisations from property and hotel development to chemicals and scientific research.
Zainab is a qualified chartered accounted with a degree in Chemistry from Kings College London.
In her spare time Zainab is a keen endurance cyclists and volunteer as a trustee for a Muslim Women’s Cycling Charity called Cycle Sisters breaking down barriers for Muslim women to take up cycling.
Somen is Co-Director of Public Health. He has lived and worked in Tower Hamlets while completing his specialist registrar training in public health in Oxford. During his training, he gained experience working in public health with the World Health Organisation, Department of Health, NICE, Public Health observatories and the British Heart Foundation Academic Unit in Oxford University as well as working across a number of primary care trusts (PCTs) in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. He also has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a Masters in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Vicky Scott is Chief Executive of Tower Hamlets CVS. She joined in January 2023 from neighbouring Hackney CVS where she was Head of Operations and helped to steer the organisation through COVID. During the pandemic she was inspired by the powerful leadership of community groups and is an advocate of equitable partnership working.
She believes in the crucial role of the CVS to empower the hundreds of local charities and community groups to create real and radical change and to reduce health inequalities. With many years experience of charity governance, both in the arts and the voluntary & community sector, her experience includes all aspects of running charities including creating organisational change and building engaged and enthused teams. She is also Interim Chair at Lewisham Refugee & Migrant Network.
Prior to joining Healthwatch, Matthew worked for a Housing Association and various local and county councils including Newham, Essex, Lewisham, Hackney, and Oxfordshire.
He has a background in leading, developing and implementing changes in the areas of complaints management, service improvement, training, operational and business processes. Matthew also worked as an independent investigator and panel member for children’s complaints for an independent company some years ago.
Roberto is a local General Practitioner in Tower Hamlets, and is Clinical Director for Tower Hamlets Together. He has worked across North East London across hospital and community settings for many years, and has led on transformation programmes at national and local level since 2018.
He is also a Clinical Advisor at NHS England. He has completed the Health Education England Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership. He is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and a Member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.
Dr Khyati Bakhai has been GP Partner in Tower Hamlets since 2013, at Bromley by Bow health, centre which looks after over 10% of the Tower Hamlets population and has 2 CQC ‘Outstanding’ rated practices. Here, amongst other things, she takes a lead on organisational development, quality improvement and teaching and training.
Khyati enjoys working in diverse teams to address health system problems and has developed the 'DIY Health' programme, bringing together general practice teams with children's centres, schools, health visitors and patients, to empower parents by giving them confidence in managing minor ailments in their young children.
She works with the Royal College of GPs in developing e-learning material and works with the Tower Hamlets training hub to develop and deliver training to clinical and non-clinical staff across North East London. Khyati is a GP trainer and a director for the education and training arm of Greenlight@GP, which supports practice pharmacists.
She has previously worked as a governing board member for Tower Hamlets CCG, leading on 'Primary care transformation' and 'Prescribing', and as Primary care clinical lead for Tower Hamlets.
Steve is currently interim Corporate Director for Children’s Services at Tower Hamlets Council having previously held this role in South Tyneside, Liverpool and Warrington Councils. Steve has followed a non- traditional career path having worked in criminal psychology and offender profiling, also spending time with Lancashire and Merseyside constabularies before taking on roles in local government.
Whilst working for Warrington Council Steve was Director of People Services – Adults, Children’s, Public Health and Neighbourhood Services, and was the Council Deputy Chief Executive. Steve has chaired the Northwest Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) Group and sat on several national groups for the ADCS. Steve is passionate about creating the right conditions for all our teams to do their best work and equally passionate about children and young people’s voice influencing everything we do.
