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Mr Timothy Skelton BSc

Biography

Tim Skelton, PIC Committee member

Tim Skelton graduated from London University with a degree in Agriculture Economics. He joined the Cooperative Wholesale Society as a graduate trainee and became an Estate Manager in 1974. He was responsible for the management of a large dairy farming unit in Lancashire and a mixed dairy and arable estate in Shropshire.

In 1982 Tim joined Whitbread initially in East Anglia and then moved to London running a number of large public houses. He was then appointed Development Director and took on a national responsibility for developing new leisure retail outlets. In 1992 he joined the NHS and took on a variety of Chief Executive posts in large General Hospitals, Community Trusts and an Ambulance Trust.

Since retiring from full time employment in 2007 Tim has been pursuing a portfolio career with lay member appointments to the Judicial Appointments Committee, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the General Dental Council and NHS England. During this time he has also been a Non Executive Director of an NHS Trust in Oxfordshire and a Chair of a Probation Board in Dorset.

Tim is currently a Chair for Social Work England Fitness to Practice proceedings, a Lay Panel Member for the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service and a Lay Panel Member for the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.

Tim now lives in Salisbury and enjoys walking and cycling, with his wife Alison, both locally and abroad.

Committee membership

  • Preliminary Investigation Committee – appointed 2016

Declaration of interests

Directorship

  • None

Shareholdings

  • None

Consultancies

  • None

Appointments to other bodies

  • Lay Chair - Social Work England, Fitness to Practise
  • Lay Panel Member Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service
  • Lay Panel Member for the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service

Membership of other veterinary or allied organisations

  • None

Employment

  • Non Executive Director Dorset, Devon and Cornwall Community Rehabilitation Company (2009-2015) Chair Dorset Probation Trust (2011-2014)
  • Non-Executive Director of Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust (2008-2012) Mental Health Act Manager (2008-2009)
  • Independent Chair of South Wiltshire Strategic Partnership/Salisbury City Community Area Partnership (2006-2009)
  • South West Strategic Health Authority NHS Project Director (2002-2007)
  • Director of Modernisation & Health Systems Performance (2002-2005)                                     
  • Chief Executive of NHS Trusts (1992-2002)
  • Whitbread plc  Development Director (1982-1991)
  • Cooperative Wholesale Society Estate Manager (1971-1982)
  • BSc Agriculture Economics London University (1968-1971)

Qualifications (other than veterinary qualifications listed in the Register)

  • BSc Agriculture Economics

Interests relating to immediate family or close friends

  • My wife Alison has retired from being a solicitor in commercial law and has more recently retired from being a magistrate undertaking mostly family work. Our son Ben specialises in assessing the viability of wind turbine sites and our daughter Anna is a police officer.

Other relevant information

  • None