Our People
UK Directors
Dr Niti Pall, Chair and Clinical Lead (email Niti)
Niti is a visionary senior clinical leader, who combines leading edge developmental roles with a passion for the delivery of top quality primary care to disadvantaged communities. Niti is highly skilled at building inclusive and sustainable networks for improving patient care across traditional boundaries, particularly with secondary care and the voluntary sector through an open and inclusive leadership style. She has a strong drive for responsive patient care which underpins a successful track record of innovation, delivered within general practice and at a strategic level both locally and nationally.
Niti works as a doctor in a thriving inner-city practice and is a board member of Diabetes UK and the International Diabetes Federation. Niti is an advisor to the Strategic Health Authority (West Midlands) leading on all the planned care patient pathways. She is also an Associate Director at the Department of Health and advisor to NHS Global.
Key Achievements:
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Led the development of first wave PMS and services across two large inner-city general practices, delivering extended primary healthcare services for 9 years to a population of over 20,000
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Achieved emergency admissions 15% lower than the locality by a pioneering, proactive elderly care co-ordinator role creating efficiency savings reinvested in patient care.
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Led the development of an Asian women’s counselling service in 3 languages which is now mainstreamed.
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Pioneered structured diabetes education in 3 different languages which is held up as a national example of good practice by the national diabetes team.
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Leading the development of new models of primary care in-house by using group consultations outreaching into the community, working with the Big Invest and Social Enterprise.
Dee Kyne, Business Director (email Dee)
Dee started her working life as a Lighting Designer in theatre, designing over 100 shows working throughout Europe and the UK at the very cutting edge and at highest levels of theatre. She learnt that theatre is about teams, achieving outcomes to a high standard and to tight deadlines. Dee went on to write the first degree courses in Performing Arts and Lighting Design for RADA, LAMDA and Guildhall where she worked with the British Council Sharing practices and skills internationally. Dee went on to work in design, capitalizing her own company and designing and patenting baby products whilst having her family.
Dee moved into running a large regional charity using Art as a tool for social change (Art Shape), advising the Arts Council UK and setting up micro businesses within marginalized communities in the 1990’s. She then moved into the private sector running a big, very successful art business developing artists and bringing them to market (Arts23.co.uk).
She was then head-hunted to run an independent mental health company (Keepwell/UK/) working with a focus on ‘Recovery’. Dee worked internationally throughout Europe and Australasia alongside the WHO to demonstrate and share best practice in Person Centered planning techniques and recovery models. This experience has led Dee to PHD where she has had an opportunity to combine her skills and follow her passion of working closely with people to find key solutions to difficult problems.
Dr David Morris, Informatics Director
David has 6 years experience in acute hospital medicine gaining his MRCP in 1998 before entering general practice. He has a special interest in general medical conditions and acute medical care, combining this with a strong interest in complementary therapies having training in acupuncture and homeopathy. David is particularly interested in integrating complementary and Allopathic health systems and understands that India is a country where this relationship can be deepened and developed providing the very best of care.
David’s passion is to develop clinical systems to ensure high quality and efficient care and also to integrate all aspects of possible therapies within the context of wider social and lifestyle issues that are vital for good health and a healthy society.
Dr Mina Gupta, Director of Elderly Care (email Mina)
Mina is a GP principal at Smethwick Medical Centre and a director of PHD. Mina qualified in 1988 from St Thomas’s Medical School in London. She ended her training as part of the Oxford rotation. During this time she also studied for postgraduate qualifications (DRCOG and MRCGP) and completed her family! Mina has worked across the UK in many advisory capacities and supported her husband who is a leading Ophthalmologist and surgeon in the RAF.
Mina’s travels in different practices and regions throughout the country have prepared her well for the clinical and managerial roles of partnership and the creation of an innovative company, PHD CIC. Mina is known regionally for developing innovative ways of caring for patients, workforce development and has a particular interest in elderly care.
Sarah Banham, Director of Nursing
Sarah is one of the most Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANP’s) in the UK. Sarah runs her own GP’s primary care practice employing doctors and working alongside them as a senior clinician, practicing as a doctor does. Sarah leads the thinking in Nurse Development in the UK; she contributes regularly to many journals and publications and advises the department of health in Service redesign and innovation. Sarah has been at the leading edge of innovation, working and developing many clinical collectives and working in partnership to deliver real meaningful change in healthcare.
Puchka Sahay Direnzo, Board Advisor & Non-executive Director
Puchka is one of the most creative thinkers in the financial industry today. Puchka is known for her strategic approach to the key social and financial issues that face our world. Puchka is at the leading edge of social intervention and financial impact, working with the Skoll foundation, the Big Issue Invest and courted by many of the big consultancies of our day.
Puchka is Managing Director of Amariann Ltd, a niche market consultancy in the UK with an offices in London and India focused on delivering high-value, sustainable market solutions in environment, finance and development. Prior to moving to the UK with her husband and two children, Puchka lived and worked in the US and was Vice President at ShoreBank in Chicago.
ShoreBank invented community development banking as a market-based approach to revitalising communities. Community development banking uses traditional banking services to strengthen communities, particularly those that historically have had little access to credit and other financial opportunities.
Puchka joined the board of PHD CIC as an advisor and Non exec. Director in January 2010.
Management Team
Mike Wain, Business Manager (email Mike)
Karen Wimbury, Financial Controller (email Karen)
Project Staff
Health and WellBeing team with focus on CVD/Cancer Awareness
Nadia Ahmed, Project Manager email: (email Nadia)
Suzanne Hemming (email Suzanne)
Sally Akhtar (email Sally)
Greenfields Asylum Seeker & refugee service
Sonia Walters, Clinical Lead (email Sonia)
Dawn Martin (email Dawn)
Bea Basra (email Bea)
Maziar Parsi (email Marziar)
Ouarda Khennaoui (email Ouarda)
