Our Trust Board

Murray, who lives near Louth, has served in a range of NHS non-executive roles across community health, commissioning, the East of England Ambulance Service, and the Lincolnshire ICB Finance Committee. He is also a highly experienced Chief Executive in the housing sector.

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Emma Sayner is a local resident and an experienced Chief Financial Officer having joined Humber Health Partnership in December 2024 following a successful and longstanding career in the local health care system (particularly across Hull and North Lincolnshire) having completed the NHS Graduate Finance Training Scheme in 2000.

Emma is passionate about all aspects of NHS finance and especially the role that it can play in enabling real change, by breaking down boundaries to achieve better outcomes for patients.

Emma continues to have a leading role in local estate strategy and delivery through her longstanding role representing the NHS interest as a Board member of Hull Citycare Ltd (LIFT), which has worked in partnership with the NHS to improve the health care estate across Hull.

Emma is Chair for the Yorkshire and Humber branch of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), the professional body for finance staff in the NHS.

In October 2026 Emma joined the NLaG board.

Dr Kieran Baker joined us in October 2026 following four years as Chief Digital and Information Officer at South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board. In this role, he led programmes that brought NHS and local government organisations together to improve services across the region. His work focused on modernising technology, making better use of information, developing digital skills, and ensuring digital services are inclusive, secure and connected.

Across almost 14 years, Kieran has held a number of senior leadership positions across the NHS, including roles within an ambulance service, acute hospitals and a national organisation. He is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield.

Julie has a strong passion for public sector services and believes they make a significant contribution to the happiness, health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

She has worked in the public sector for 40 years, fulfilling a broad range of roles within a single local authority, most recently serving as Chief Executive of a district council for 11 years.

Julie has been actively engaged with the health sector through a variety of platforms, including involvement in the development of an Integrated Care System. She believes this creates opportunities for new dialogues focused on the wider determinants of health and wellbeing. Julie is experienced in exploring stakeholder perspectives to achieve shared understanding and agreement on a way forward.

Jo is a registered nurse with a 39-year career spanning frontline healthcare, commissioning, NHS leadership and the commercial healthcare sector. She is currently a Clinical Non-Executive Director at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where she chairs the Quality Committee and is Maternity and Neonatal Safety Champion. Her previous roles have included Director of Clinical and Product Assurance at NHS Supply Chain and senior roles with NHS England covering improvement and digital primary care. A local resident and user of local health services, she has spoken of her commitment to ensuring the views of patients and families remain at the heart of Board decision-making.

Dr Ekta Elston is a GP partner at the Roxton Practice in Immingham. She is a former Medical Director of NHS North East Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group and former Clinical Director for North East Lincolnshire at NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board.
She has extensive experience of clinical leadership across the Humber health and care system and is particularly passionate about integrated models of care and empowering staff to lead improvement. She was a member of the NHS 10 Year Health Plan working group and has helped shape national thinking on integrated neighbourhood teams and outpatient transformation.