Executive Directors

The following people are part of the Trusts Executive team:

	Chief operating officer and Deputy Chief Executive As chief operating officer and deputy chief executive, Hugh McCaughey oversees service planning, user engagement, performance management, reform, service improvement, operations, information management and information technology in the Belfast Trust. Hugh was deputy chief executive and director of performance and planning at the Royal until May 2006 when he left to take up the post of chief executive at United Hospitals Trust.
	Director of social services, family and child care As director of social services, family and child care Bernie McNally has responsibility for social service and social care for older people and in the areas of mental health and learning disability. She also oversees child health, maternity and women’s services. Bernie worked at North and West and was director of children, mental health, social work for three and half years.
	Director of mental health and learning disability Brendan Mullen is the new director of mental health and learning disability, he joined the health service in 1976. Brendan previously held posts of Senior Nurse CPN/CNLD Service, Locality manager, PAMs manager and Programme Head for Mental Health. He was for eight years Nurse member of the Mental Health Commission for Northern Ireland.
	Director of head and skeletal services Patricia O’Callaghan is director of head and skeletal services and as such oversees all related areas including neurosciences, ENT, dentistry, fractures and orthopaedics. Patricia was previously at Greenpark and held the post of director of nursing and clinical effectiveness and was responsible for patient services and professional nursing standards.
	Director of clinical service Patricia Donnelly was divisional director of clinical services at the Royal before being appointed as director of clinical service. She had previously been the clinical director for clinical professions, psychology services manager and a consultant clinical psychologist in the Royal, Belfast City and Craigavon Hospitals. Patricia is responsible for anaesthetics; theatres; critical care; sterile services, diagnostic services and therapy and therapeutic services.
	Director of planning and redevelopment services As director of planning and redevelopment services, Denise Stockman has responsibility for capital planning and business cases, capital redevelopment, PFI and estates. Previously she worked in the Royal as director of capital redevelopment and the City as capital development manager – overseeing the development of the new Oncology Centre.
	Director of specialist acute services Director of specialist acute services, Jennifer Welsh is responsible for acute services across the Belfast area. Jennifer joins the Belfast Trust from the Ulster Community and Hospitals Trust where she was director of capital development. She was previously a senior manager at Greenpark.
	Director of Medicine Tony Stevens, Medical Director of the Belfast Trust assumes responsibility for safety, quality and standards; public and occupational health; research and complaints and litigation. Tony was previously deputy medical director and director of risk and occupational health at the Royal before taking up post as medical director of the Belfast Trust.
	Director of finance Wendy Galbraith was director of finance at the Royal from March 2003 and has a wide range of experience from both the private and public sector having worked in audit and management consultancy with both PriceWaterhouse and Deloittes. As director of finance services, she has responsibility for accounting and financial services; financial management; commissioning; capital and investment for the Trust.
	Director of older people, medicine and surgery Valerie Jackson is taking on the portfolio of older people, medicine and surgery. As director she will be responsible for one of the largest service groupings in the Trust. Formally director of nursing for Ulster Community and Hospital Trust Valerie will continue to take responsiblity for carrying forward the structures of the directorate of nursing while a new director is recruited.
	Director of Human Resources Marie Mallon was previously director of Human Resources (HR) in the Royal and has been responsible for personnel services in a number of organisations within the Health Service and held the post of the industrial relations manager in the Eastern Board for five years. As director of HR in the Belfast Trust she is responsible for employment relations; resourcing, utilisation and productivity; learning and development and employment equality.