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 who has recently left the NHS after almost 35 years. Her clinical experience is in community nursing and her management exp

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 32 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

Emma Colclough
Emma started work in the NHS back in 1999 and has since worked in primary, secondary, community and mental health services. Her expertise includes pr

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 12 years, starting in Primary Care. In 2017, Abbie came out of GP Practice to work for Howbeck, Managing the Extended

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

Kirsty Moore
Kirsty Moore is an experienced NHS Manager working in a variety of roles over the last 20 years both in Primary and Secondary Care where she has built

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 worked in primary care for the past 8 years in various admin and management based roles. Harriet has a wide range of knowledge in systems

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

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

Tracy Norton
Tracy is an experienced NHS manager having worked in Primary Care for 20 years, most recently as a PCN Business Development Manager. Tracy is passi

Nicola Laurie
Nicola has a 25 year administration background varying from office administration through to project support. Previously she worked in Education for
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