Our Board and members

Find out about the role of the NHSCFA board and its members.

The NHSCFA board is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the organisation and ensuring we are able to account to Parliament and the public on how we deliver our functions. Information on our objectives and the services we provide can be found on the What we do page, and you can find more details on how we lead the fight against NHS fraud in our 2023-2026 strategy.

The board currently consists of a Chair, five Non -Executive Directors (one of whom also chairs the Audit & Risk Committee), a Chief Executive Officer, a Director of Finance and Corporate Governance and a Director of Performance and Improvement.

Declarations of interests for board members can be found in the declaration of interests register. To find out more about each board member please see below.

The board is supported by the Finance and Corporate Governance Unit and the Board Secretary is Ann Sturgess.

Further details regarding the role of the board can be found in the governance code for central government departments.

  • Image of Tom Taylor (Chair) NHSCFA Board of Directors

    Tom Taylor

    Tom has more than 33 years’ experience working at Board level in the public, private and third sectors as well as being a dual qualified accountant – find out more

  • Image of Alex Rothwell, Chief Executive Officer

    Alex Rothwell

    Alex worked for more than 30 years in the Metropolitan and City of London Police Services and has extensive strategic, operational and investigative experience of tackling fraud and financial crime.

  • Image of Matthew Jordan-Boyd, Director of Finance and Corporate Governance

    Matthew Jordan-Boyd

    Find out about our Chief Finance Officer.

  • Image of Tricia Morrison - Director of Performance and Improvement

    Tricia Morrison

    After 23 years in local government Tricia decided to embrace a new direction in public service and moved into the National Health Service

  • NED Alyson Coates

    Alyson Coates

    Trained as a molecular biologist Alyson has a strong commitment to public services and has held a number of non-executive roles across the sector – find out more

  • Image of Gaon Hart, Non-Executive Director

    Gaon Hart

    As a dual qualified lawyer Gaon has focussed his career fighting corruption, fraud, and unethical behaviour – find out more

  • Image of Andrew Flanagan, Non-Executive Director

    Andrew Flanagan

    A former Chief Executive of Scottish Television, Andrew now concentrates on his Non-Executive Director roles and is particularly interested in counter fraud – find out more

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