Robin MacIntosh

Neil is a qualified social worker who has a long history of successful leadership roles in local government and social care. Neil has led many large transformation programmes across adult and children’s services. He has significant experience in Safeguarding, Innovation, Integrated services, Commissioning, Capital Programmes, Housing and Learning Disability Services. 

Mick is an experienced and effective consultant who has been a senior manager in various roles across the sector. He is a qualified social worker who has worked for local authorities and the NHS and he was the professional social care advisor for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Mick is a Visiting Knowledge Transfer Fellow with the University.

Rachel is a Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing and a Registered Mental Health Nurse with over 20 years’ clinical experience. She is also a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse and has five years’ experience in higher education. Rachel teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate mental health nursing programmes, contributing to leadership education at BSc and MSc level.

Ben teaches on both the IPC undergraduate and postgraduate commissioning certificate courses. He brings extensive experience in strategic commissioning across local government and the NHS, with a career spanning senior leadership roles since 2009.

Meilys brings a background in finance, regulation and systems thinking, alongside many years of senior leadership experience across social care, health and wellbeing, and community development.

Lynda is qualified social worker and an experienced local authority senior manager with over 30 years’ experience of working in statutory social care. She has been an assistant director with prime responsibility for children’s services and has been the corporate director of adult social services alongside responsibility for an extensive range of community services.

Sarah is a solution-focused professional with considerable experience of health and social care commissioning in both NHS and local government. Sarah has delivered commissioning functions including procurement, performance management and service improvement, system review, needs analysis and transformation.

Donna is an interdisciplinary researcher with nearly 20 years of experience in both public and private sector settings. Donna’s work has informed policy and practice change at the local, regional and national level. She holds a PhD and has global research experience in three different continents.

Graeme brings over twenty years’ experience in local and regional government, and in the voluntary and community sectors, to his role at the Institute of Public Care. Graeme leads and delivers a range of organisational change and development programmes, with a particular focus on commissioning and market shaping.

John is a qualified social worker with over 30 years experience including leadership roles in commissioning and organisational transformation. Since joining IPC in 2021 John has worked on projects in both adults and children’s social care focusing particularly on market shaping.