Shirley Way

Shirley Way has been the Skills for Care Locality Manager for the Black Country and Stoke & Staffordshire, for six years. Within this role Shirley supports the adult social care providers in the area to not only deliver high-quality care services but also ensures that the social care workforce has access to appropriate learning and […]
Catherine Griffiths

Catherine has a background in local government and more than 20 years’ experience of HR and large-scale service transformation and redesign. Her expertise lies in employee engagement and empowering those around her to make positive changes for the benefit of the organisation and its service users. She joined the NHS for the first time in […]
Dr Josh Tulley

Josh is a Clinical Teaching Fellow at The Dudley group working clinically in Anaesthetics and Intensive Care. As a wellbeing Champion he also leads initiatives to improve the workplace wellbeing culture, with a particular focus on medical students and junior doctors. Josh recently spoke at the 2023 leadership conference on the role of healthcare leaders […]
Paige Massey

Paige is the Wellbeing Business Partner at the Dudley Group working across the whole of the Trust to look at ways we can better support staff wellbeing in a timely and preventative manner. I also engage with staff groups across the Trust, highlighting our wellbeing offer and creating awareness of the importance of wellbeing in […]
Joey Livesey

My name is Joey, and I have been Chair of the LGBTQ+ Staff Network for around a year now. As someone who is bisexual and transgender, I identify with multiple parts of the LGBTQ+ community. While I knew I was bisexual from my early teens, it took me longer to come to terms with my gender identity. I was […]
Hayley Pardoe

My name is Hayley Pardoe, and I am excited and honoured to be stepping up to the role of Vice Chair as someone who has a physically disability cerebral Palsy. And was diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis in 2014 which has additional challenges I was advised by the speak up guardian to seek out a new […]
Jayne Burness

The ICB are excited to be holding a multi-faith ‘Women’s Health & Wellbeing Event’ on Sunday, 11th of June at Ghausia Community Welfare Centre in Lye, from 2pm/4pm.
Diane Porterfield


I’m Diane Porterfield; a menopause nurse practitioner and I own CQC registered private menopause services; Bourne2care. I started my Registered Nurse training at Kidderminster General Hospital in 1988, a week before my 18th birthday and I’ve been nursing ever since. I have lived and nursed all over the world, starting in Emergency Departments, then minor injury/illness centres […]
Shajeda Ahmed


Shajeda Ahmed has over 20 years in both public and private sectors, and prior to joining the Black Country ICB as Chief People Officer, was the Executive Director of People, OD & Inclusion for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare. Shajeda is nationally recognised for her leadership within the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. She has won […]
Karen Noy



My name is Karen and I am Chair of the staff Disability and Long term condition network. Qualifying as a nurse and attending my graduation was the proudest moment of my life. I started my journey with the Dudley group back in 1995 in Elective Orthopaedics and the draw to work in what was then […]