NELFT Trust Board
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Board of Directors is responsible for the overall strategic direction of Trust and ensures that NELFT continues to achieve its strategic objectives while upholding the Trust’s values. The Trust Board, led by the Chair comprises of executive and non-executive directors.
The executive directors are senior full-time employees of the Trust and they are responsible for the day-to-day running of the Trust. The non-executive directors have a wide range of skill, expertise and experiences and together with the executive directors ensure a robust consideration of the Trust’s performance.
Our Chair is Eileen Taylor who is a non-executive director serving as the joint Chair of NELFT and East London NHS Foundation Trust.
The Chief Executive Officer is Paul Calaminus.
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Navin Kalia
Navin Kalia
Chief Financial Officer
Navin was previously the Deputy Director of Finance & Corporate Resources for the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust and prior to that Associate Director of Income and Development at Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.
Having professionally trained as an accountant in the West Midlands and worked in industry and commerce for 7 years, Navin began his NHS career in 2005 at the Health Protection Agency (now known as the UK Health Security Agency). Since 2005, Navin has operated at Deputy or Senior Finance level roles across a variety of NHS organisations whose services have covered ambulance, community, primary care, public health and acute provision, allowing him to gain a breadth of NHS commissioner and provider services knowledge.
Navin is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), a Qualified Institute of Leadership Management (ILM) Level 5 Coach and a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Financial Recovery Group working across the NHS.
Qualifications: FCCA ILM BA (Hons)