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Deborah Sanders — Barnet Hospital chief executive
Deborah has worked for the trust since 1994, having trained at the Royal Free Hospital.
She was appointed as the trust’s director of nursing in 2010. Before that, she worked at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the London Chest Hospital.
She was appointed chief executive of Barnet Hospital in March 2020. In July 2023, she also became acting chief executive of Chase Farm Hospital.
Deborah is also a board member of the Royal Free Hospital Nurses’ Home of Rest Trust and a trustee of the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability.
Denis Enright — director of operations
Denis joined the Royal Free London in May 2022 from his previous role as director of operations at Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in Barnet.
He graduated from Brunel University in physiotherapy and started his clinical career at the Royal Free Hospital before moving into leadership and management roles away from the Royal Free London.
He has experience in senior operational roles having worked across community, secondary and tertiary services including at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust more locally.
Mike Greenberg — medical director
Mike joined the Royal Free Hospital as a consultant paediatrician in 2001.
He was clinical director for children’s services in 2009, and divisional director for women, children and imaging in 2014. He took up the post of medical director of Barnet Hospital in July 2017.
Bev Thomas — director of nursing
Bev is a critical care and neurosciences nurse by background with 37 years’ experience of the nursing profession.
Her previous roles have been lead nurse for critical care and divisional director of nursing for emergency medicine.
She enjoys her profession and takes pride in leading teams to make a difference in the lives of our staff and patients through positive experiences.
Bev has worked at the Royal Free London for three years and enjoys the visibility and opportunity that her role brings to meet patients, staff and the public.
Deborah Sanders — Chase Farm Hospital and group clinical services acting chief executive
Deborah has worked for the trust since 1994, having trained at the Royal Free Hospital.
She was appointed as the trust’s director of nursing in 2010. Before that, she worked at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the London Chest Hospital.
She was appointed chief executive of Barnet Hospital in March 2020. In July 2023, she also became acting chief executive of Chase Farm Hospital.
Deborah is also a board member of the Royal Free Hospital Nurses’ Home of Rest Trust and a trustee of the Royal Hospital for Neurodisability.
Sita Chitambo — interim director of nursing, Chase Farm Hospital and group clinical services
Sita trained as an adult nurse in Scotland, before moving to England as her career progressed.
She has worked in the NHS for over 20 years in a range of nursing, management and leadership roles across community and acute.
Before being appointed Chase Farm Hospital's interim director of nursing in January 2024, Sita was divisional director of nursing, allied health professionals and quality for North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust's community division — a role she held for three years.
Julia Kitteringham — director of operations, Chase Farm Hospital and group clinical services
Julia joined the Royal Free London in April 2022 from her previous role as divisional director of operations for women, children, cancer and diagnostics at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
She started her career within the NHS more than 20 years ago at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and has held various roles across a number of NHS providers including Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Julia also spent two years working for cancer support charity Maggie’s.
Dr Ash Saini — interim medical director, Chase Farm Hospital and group clinical services
Dr Ash Saini is a consultant interventional radiologist who was appointed to Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009.
When the trust became part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, he became clinical director for imaging and more recently divisional director for group clinical services.
Ash is also the clinical lead for the north central London imaging network.
Dr John Connolly — Royal Free Hospital chief executive
Dr John Connolly, a renal consultant who has worked at the Royal Free London since 2004, is the chief executive of the Royal Free Hospital.
John was previously medical director of Royal Free Hospital and prior to that led the development of clinical practice groups for the Royal Free London group.
Rachel Anticoni — director of operations
Rachel has been the director of operations for the Royal Free Hospital since 2017, responsible for the operational running of the hospital. Prior to this role, she was the chief operating officer at North Middlesex Hospital.
Rachel has an extensive operational and clinical background within the acute sector including A&E, theatres, and surgical specialties as well as leadership roles in the community, social care, private and voluntary sectors, both nationally and in London.
She has international experience working with many non-governmental organisations predominantly in east and central Africa in war zones and areas of conflict. She is a registered nurse.
Dr Jenny Cross — medical director
Dr Jenny Cross was appointed medical director for the Royal Free Hospital in January 2024, having held the role on an interim basis since July 2022. She is also the Royal Free London group chief clinical information officer.
She was appointed as a consultant nephrologist in 2003 after training at Edinburgh University and University College London, completing a PhD in 2002.
Jenny has a long history of clinical leadership managing a variety of clinical areas including regional renal and urology services.
She understands the complexities of both community integrated care and super specialist services, championing equitable access and safe effective care.
Rebecca Longmate — director of nursing
Rebecca joined the Royal Free Hospital in 1997 as a specialist nurse in anaemia and has worked in senior nurse roles managing liver, renal, specialist and cancer services. She has been director of nursing since 2017 and has a particular interest in encouraging meaningful conversations with staff and patients to make quality improvements as part of the 'What Matters To You' programme.
Before joining the trust, Rebecca worked in three other London teaching hospitals — Guy's & St Thomas’, St Mary’s and King’s College — in urology, renal and liver transplantation, the high dependency unit and as a site and bed manager. She also spent a year working in Australia in Alice Springs and Sydney as a staff nurse in medicine and surgery.
Rebecca holds a bachelor of nursing in health studies and a master’s degree in advancing critical care practice and is a qualified coach.
