Our People

Dr Neil Paul
Neil is the co-Founder of Howbeck Healthcare Ltd and provides the clinical leadership to the company. His clinical work provides a lot of the inspira

Mike Pyrah
Mike left the NHS in 2012 after a 34 year career. For the last 17 years of those Mike was a NHS Chief Executive, undertaking this role in both a NHS T

Tina Cookson
Tina is a Registered Nurse with over 40 years experience and is Howbecks lead Freedom to Speak Up Guardian Tina is also a Nurse Director in a GP Fe

Lisa Taylor
Lisa is an experienced senior manager who worked within an NHS setting for over 20 years in a variety of corporate and clinical governance roles, form

Alison Yates
Alison works with Howbeck Healthcare as a Programme Manager leading on a range of projects for our GP Federation clients. She has 34 years’ exper

Sarah Laing
Sarah has worked for Howbeck since 2017, she set up, leads and directs the new Primary Care Networks across East Staffordshire and Tamworth (Mercian P

Lucy Minshull
Lucy is an experienced manager who has worked in the NHS for the last 30 years. Lucy has a varied career portfolio predominantly leading on the NHS w

Rachel Hatfield
Rachel is an experienced Programme and Project Manager and has spent the last 11+ years working in/with the NHS, both locally in Staffordshire and Che

Sue McDowell
Sue is an experienced ex-NHS manager that is currently contracted to act as the Business Manager for the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliances.

Abbie Donegan
Abbie has worked in the NHS for 15 years, beginning her career in Primary Care where she supported the Practice Manager and developed a strong underst

Andrea Foster
Andrea is an experienced communications professional with over 20 years’ experience in an NHS setting. Andrea has excellent experience developing an

Sharon Forrester-Wild
Sharon provides an independent DPO and IG service to over 100 health organisations over a wide geographical area in the North West and Midland areas.

Harriet Chandler
Harriet has over nine years of experience working within the NHS, where she has developed a strong foundation in healthcare operations and digital tra

Rachel Viggars
Rachel has worked as a GPN and ANP in North Staffordshire for over 20 years. Rachel is proud to be a Queen’s Nurse, this title is awarded for demons

Sarah Smith
Sarah has worked within general practice for over 4 years as an IT administrator and project lead. Sarah has over 15 years of varying administration,

Edy Hicklin
Edy is our Data Protection Support Officer, providing advice, guidance and training to our practices alongside our Data Protection Officer. Edy has p

Nicola Laurie
Nicola previously worked in Higher Education for 15 years and has been working in Primary Care for the last 5 years. In June 2023, Nicola started work

Joanne Goodwin
Joanne is a Clinical Pharmacist with over 20 years experience in primary care. After starting her career in clinical trial supplies for the pharmace
