Who are you?

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Who we are

The NTA Board is made up of independent experts in the drug treatment field, including service users and carers. The NTA Board comprises the chair, seven non-executive members, four ex-officio and four executive members including the chief executive. The Board is responsible for:

  • Approving the work programme, budget and general strategy of the NTA
  • Providing independent advice on the NTA's strategy to the Secretary of State for Health
  • Overseeing the NTA's general performance

Find out more about our non executive Board members below. Find out more about our executive directors here

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Baroness Doreen Massey

Chair

Doreen is a member of the Advisory Council for Alcohol and Drug Education, the Trust for the Study of Adolescence, and all parliamentary groups on alcohol, drugs, HIV/AIDS and children.

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Kate Davis, OBE

Non executive director

Kate is currently Executive Lead for Equalities NHS Nottinghamshire County & NHS Nottingham City PCT Clusters. She is also a member of the Nottinghamshire Women and Drugs Forum and the National Alcohol Mapping Project (NAMP) Steering Group (Alcohol Conce...

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Dr Gabriel Scally

Non Executive Director

Gabriel is currently Regional Director of Public Health, South West region. He has a special interest in the public health system and its actions around substance misuse, particularly at regional level.

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Alison Comley

Non Executive Director

Alison is currently Strategic Director of Health & Social Care, Bristol City Council. She has worked within a local authority setting for 20 years as a social worker, planner and senior manager with all client groups and has developed a focus on the drug...

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Peter McDermott

Non Executive Director

Peter is a freelance writer and consultant and a service user member on the NTA Board. His career highlights include working as a researcher for a range of harm reduction initiatives on Merseyside in the late eighties, editing the International Journal o...

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Tony Cooke

Non Executive Director

Tony is currently Assistant Director, Commissioning and Strategic Development, Drugs, NHS Kirklees. This includes leading strategic partnerships including drugs, alcohol, offenders, community safety, voluntary sector commissioning and housing/homelessnes...

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Gill Laver

Non Executive Director

Gill has retired from a career in financial management, primarily in the commercial sector. She chairs the NTA audit and risk committee..

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Adrian Evans

Non Executive Director

Adrian has extensive knowledge and experience in the substance misuse field particularly from a carers and families perspective. He served in the Derbyshire Constabulary for 30 years, retiring in 1999, and has worked as a Drug and Alcohol Action Team coo...

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Simon Boddis

Ex-officio member

Simon is currently Deputy Director NOMS, Head of Offender Employment Skills & Service Group, Ministry of Justice.

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Mandie Campbell

Ex-officio member

Mandie is Director of Drugs, Alcohol and Community Safety at the Home Office. She is also a Non Executive of Central & NW London NHS Foundation Trust

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Bob Ashford

Ex-officio member

Bob is Director of Strategy, Youth Justice Board

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Ian Whitehouse

Ex officio member

Ian is Deputy Director of Rights & Resilience Division, Department of Education

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