Professor Azhar Farooqi OBE
Chair and GP
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Our governing body
Learn about our governing body who are responsible for leading the organisation and ensuring patients receive the best possible healthcare and lead healthy lives.
Governing body
Leicester City CCG, like all clinical commissioning groups, is a GP-led organisation. GPs are in close contact with patients on a daily basis. They understand what communities and patients need because they hear about it first-hand as they treat and care for them. They are therefore best placed to make decisions about healthcare in Leicester to meet the needs of our uniquely diverse population.
The Leicester City CCG governing body consists of 8 GPs (including the chair and co-chair) a hospital consultant, a nurse, independent lay members supported by a management team responsible for the day to day running and development of the CCG.
We also have in place four Health Need Neighbourhood Chairs, focussing on the Central, South, North and East, and North and West of the city. We have recently appointed two new GP integration leads, Dr Tun Than and our first female Board GP, Dr Sulaxni Nainani.
The GP members of the governing body are all elected by member GP practices. The current members were elected in April 2016 for a period of three years.
The governing body (board) is made up of the following. Click on the pictures to learn more about each member:
Chris West
Director of Nursing and Quality
Ivan Browne
Deputy Director in Public Health
Dr Avinashi Prasad
Co-Chair and GP
Dr Tony Bentley
Health Need Neighbourhood Chair (North & East) and GP
Dr Rajesh Kapur
Health Need Neighbourhood Chair and GP
Dr Umesh Roy
Health Need Neighbourhood Chair (North & West) and GP
Dr David Shepherd
Health Need Neighbourhood Chair (South) and GP
Sue Lock
Managing Director
Richard Morris
Director of Operations and Corporate Affairs
Sarah Prema
Director of Strategy and Implementation
Michelle Iliffe
Director of Finance and Performance / Deputy Managing Director
Nick Carter
Independent Vice Chair
Dr Sulaxni Nainani
LCCG Governing Body Member (Clinical Lead for Left shift and Integration of Services)
Bhavna Maru
Practice Nurse Representative
Matthew Trotter
Secondary Care Clinician
Dr Tun Than
LCCG Governing Body Member (Clinical Lead for Integration of Services)
Daxa Patel
Lay Member
Zuffar Haq
Lay Member
Jeffrey Knight
Chair of Audit Committee and Lay Member
