Our Chair, Kathryn Yates
Kathryn Yates is a registered nurse, health visitor and teacher with over 30 years experience in practice. Kathryn has been a Kingston resident for over 20 years and has held numerous posts at national and regional level in health and educational settings. Kathryn is currently an independent nurse consultant with specialist interest in supervision practice.
Our Board
Liz Meerabeau
I have lived in Kingston for thirty years. I am a retired nurse and health visitor, and was Dean and Professor of Health Care at the University of Greenwich. Before that, in the mid 1990’s, I was a research manager for the Policy Research Programme at the Department of Health. I was for many years a member and then vice-chair of an NHS Research Ethics Committee, and was an appointed governor of Oxleas mental health trust. I have a particular interest in patient experience, particularly in long-term illness, on which I have co-edited a book.
Richard Allen
Richard Allen’s career has been based in marketing, public relations and journalism, spanning public, private, charitable and the self employed sector of the economy. He is the holder of industry awards and is has been the executive chairman of the national charity RALPHH since 2019. The charity’s aim is to safeguard the safety of young people and others engaged in strenuous sporting activities.
A resident of Kingston for most of his life, he served nine years as a governor of Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, four of these as lead governor. He also helped establish the Kingston branch of Diabetes UK in 2015. His family has long been connected with the inter-generational fortunes of Kingston; his grandfather had been the desk sergeant at Kingston Police Station and his father worked as the housekeeper of County Hall. Richard became a trustee of Healthwatch Kingston in 2020 and from 2021-22 was acting treasurer of the organisation.
Scotty McLeod
Eeva Crawley
Justina Jang
Past Board papers
We make the papers for our public Board meetings available online. We also publish a summary of what was discussed. Check out our past meetings to read more.
