Before retiring, I was the Area Director for HM Courts Service for Cheshire and Merseyside. After retirement I worked as a non-executive director in the NHS, serving as Vice-Chair of Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust and more recently as the Chair of St Helens NHS Clinical Commissioning Group. I Chair the Safeguarding Adults Board in Cheshire West and Chester and the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Fitness to Practice panel. I am also a governor of a large comprehensive school.