Janet Jarmin, Public Governor - Central Wiltshire
Constituency
 Re-elected 12 November 2015
After 12 years working in the Inland Revenue and then for a firm
of chartered accountants Janet took some time out to bring up two
small boys.
Janet started nurse training at Royal United Hospital in Bath
and took a post graduate course in nursing the elderly, after which
she worked in the community on a three-year feasibility study
assessing over-75-year-olds.
This was followed by work with a GP surgery as a practice nurse
specializing in the elderly.
Janet's various voluntary roles include being a trustee of
Alzheimer's Support for 13 years, an elected member of Bath &
District Community Health Council, member of Wiltshire Patient
Participation Involvement Forum and is an elected core member of
Wiltshire Involvement Forum for which she sits on the Wiltshire
& Bath Maternity Strategy Liaison Committee and Wiltshire NHS
Breast Screening Steering Group.
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Ros Thomson, Public Governor - Swindon Constituency
 Re-elected
11 November 2013
Ros was a senior nurse for many years working in the NHS and
Private Sectors.
During this time she acquired a range of management and teaching
qualifications.
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Louise Hill, Public Governor - Swindon Constituency
 Elected 11 November
2013
Louise has been employed by a number of large NHS Trusts as
Fire, Health and Safety adviser.
Through this work she accessed all areas and came to understand
the demands upon them.
Her challenge was to support staff in making work safe for all
concerned; at minimum cost and with minimum disruption to the
service.
Louise loved working for the NHS; the complexity, the sheer
variety of work and tasks, the diversity of skills and people.
The demands and pressures were extraordinary but this is what
made NHS work so challenging and exhilarating.
Louise should very much like to put this experience and
knowledge to good use in service to the people of Swindon, as
Governor of Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Balbir Virik, Public Governor - Swindon Constituency
 Elected 11 June 2018
After qualifying by Medical Licensing Examinations in India,
Malaysia, the UK and the US, Balbir settled here and has been a
Swindon resident since 1985.
Accident & Emergency, Orthopaedic Medicine and Lower Limb
Prosthetics & Rehabilitation preceded GP training at the
Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon.
He worked for and improved the General Medical Council (GMC)
framework for registering non-EU doctors and took part in improving
the work conditions and training for junior doctors in the NHS at a
local level, before EU directives came into force.
As a GP Principal, he was appointed as a General Practice
Quality & Outcomes Framework Assessor and a General
Practitioner Appraiser.
With his orthopaedic background, he assisted his Primary Care
Trust (PCT) design and put into place a musculo-skeletal
intermediary service to improve and balance this area of NHS
services at a local level.
In his own practice, he brought the Surgery into the 21st
Century by planning and procuring cost-effective computer
equipment, medical software and staff training - enabling the
surgery to go 'paperless' in less than six months, spearheading the
PCT's efforts in this direction.
Balbir is married and has a son who is a GP, and a daughter who
is a teach and also worked as a Police Special Constable in
Swindon.
Now retired, Balbir still keeps an interest in his local and
wider community.
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Roger Stroud, Public Governor - Swindon Constituency
Elected 24 November 2016
Roger is a qualified chemist (CSci, CChem, MRSC) and spent his
working life developing new pharmaceutical products and bringing
them to the global market.
In addition he both conducted and hosted quality audits and
inspections relating to the pharmaceutical industry and helped
organisations prepare for quality audits, especially in relation to
the American Food and Drug Agency.
Following retirement, he feels that he has the expertise,
enthusiasm, passion, time and energy to help the Trust plan
strategically and shape the quality of the Trust.
In addition he wishes to represent and reflect the interests of
both the local people and the Trust and ensure patients feel
positive, confident and safe in the care provided.
Through work, he understands other cultures and has significant
experience on committees and finds it easy to work with all levels
within an organisation.
He has a wide knowledge of business planning, management of
change, project management, risk assessment and mitigation to
ensure that projects and programmes can be delivered effectively,
in a timely fashion.
He is highly motivated and thrives on new challenges.
Roger served previously as a Governor for a Swindon secondary
school and served on the management committee of a small national
medical charity and the executive committee of a European
federation of medical charities.
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Rosemarie Phillips, Public Governor - Swindon Constituency
 Elected 24 November 2016
Rosemarie has over 50 years' experience working on behalf of
patients.
Working fulltime as a secondary school teacher, after school she
was her GP husband's receptionist.
Her daughter qualified at St Bartholomew's with a degree in
nursing and is working as a Company Secretary within the NHS.
Other interests include starting 'Mother Care for Children in
hospital' in Bath, helping people with sensory loss - representing
the RNIB in the SW and as a committee member of 'Let's Hear in
Swindon'.
She is a member of her surgery's Patient Participation
Group.
For seven years Rosemarie was registered blind but after many
operations, now Rosemarie can see, "a miracle!"
With improved hearing aids, she can hear!
In 2016, she was a patient at GWH.
Other interests include working for Age UK, volunteering for
Lawn Community Association, Swindon Borough Council Equality
Advisory Forum, and for relaxation, Rosemarie enjoys playing
bridge.
She put herself forward to be a GWH Governor in order to
continue the work which she has been doing on behalf of patients,
relatives, friends and staff for over 50 years - initially in Bath,
and for the last 40 years in Swindon.
She is particularly keen to help people with sensory loss.
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Jane Turner, Public Governor - West Berkshire and Oxfordshire
Constituency
Details to follow.
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Pauline Cooke, Public Governor - Wiltshire Northern
Constituency
 Elected 12 November
2015
For the past 25 years Pauline has worked in the private sector
for a multinational utility company.
With 20 years in the HR function at a senior level, having
worked previously in other areas, including finance, pensions and
credit management.
In addition, to this for the last 16 years, Pauline has been
very active in the charity sector and has been the President of
Electricity Industry Charity for two years.
Over the past 21 years she spent a lot of time in various NHS
hospitals due to family reasons and decided that it was now the
right time as she has taken early retirement to try and offer my
experience and skills to the Governing body of the GWH Trust, to
help and assist in any way that she can.
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Enam Chowdhury, Public Governor - Wiltshire Northern
Constituency
 Enam has been in the
catering industry for over 30 years, establishing a business in
Swindon, and then moving to Royal Wootton Bassett.
He's a Governor for the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy Trust and
a a member of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG).
Enam has been involved with the local community for the last 30
years whilst in the Rotary Club, Bangladesh Association Swindon,
Caterers' Association and others.
He's also a President of a Trustee Board for an international
charity that focuses on the education and well-being of
orphans.
Enam is active in politics, and managing both my catering and
real-estate businesses.
Having received care from the Trust himself, he's keen to use
his previous experience in multiple roles to serve and assist the
NHS, Trust and the community.
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Public Governor - Wiltshire Southern Constituency
Vacancy
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