Thomas Edward George Hayhoe (born 3 March 1956) is a director of health sector organisations in the UK, a commentator on governance and organisation, a former businessman, student union politician and parliamentary candidate, and an offshore racing sailor. He has lived in Hammersmith in West London since 1982.
Education
Hayhoe's childhood was spent on the
Isle of Portland
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, where he attended primary school before secondary education at
Woodroffe Comprehensive School in Lyme Regis and
St Paul's School in London. He studied history at
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College (full name: "The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary", often shortened to "Corpus"), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century through to the early 19th centur ...
, achieving a double first, and received an MBA from the
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business schoo ...
, which he attended on a
Harkness Fellowship
The Harkness Fellowship (previously known as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship) is a program run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. This fellowship was established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several cou ...
.
Commercial career
Hayhoe worked as a management consultant with
McKinsey & Company
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before joining
W H Smith
WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and ...
as Head of Group Planning and Development and later working as a merchandise director in its main retail chain. He then worked with the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre and as an advisor to
Coopers & Lybrand
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before establishing The Brackenbury Group in 1994 as a vehicle to provide management consultancy services and undertake management buy-ins. This was subsequently expanded into retail and consumer consultancy The Chambers. In the mid 1990s he was a non-executive director of SLSS (Oyez Stationers). Between 2000 and 2002 he chaired the board of video games retailer
Gamestation through a period of growth that took it from 26 to 70 outlets and negotiated its sale to
Blockbuster
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. In 2011 he was appointed strategy advisor at HRV Fit, developer of ithlete, the mobile
heart rate variability application.
Healthcare
Having studied health policy and economics with Professor
Alain Enthoven
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while at Stanford, Hayhoe was invited in 1981 to join the group that developed health policy for the newly formed
Social Democratic Party (SDP), and in 1985 was appointed to the first of a number of appointments as a lay member, non-executive director and finally deputy chairman of health authorities covering the boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Hounslow in West London, serving until 2000. He has since served as chairman of the West London Pathology Consortium (a collaboration between a number of acute hospitals in West London), chairman of the North West London sub-committee of the Advisory Committee for Clinical Excellence Awards, and as a director of MediHome Limited (a provider of out-of-hospital nursing and therapy services).
Between 2005 and 2010 Hayhoe served as chairman of Building Better Health West London (a Local Improvement Finance Trust company building community and primary care facilities for the NHS in West London). He was appointed Chairman of
West Middlesex University Hospital
West Middlesex University Hospital (WMUH) is an acute NHS hospital in Isleworth, West London, operated by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It is a teaching hospital of Imperial College School of Medicine and a designated aca ...
NHS Trust in October 2010 and a Trustee of Versus Arthritis (formerly
Arthritis Research UK
Versus Arthritis is the UK's largest charity dedicated to supporting people with arthritis. It was launched in September 2018, following the legal merger of the two leading arthritis charities in the UK, Arthritis Research UK and Arthritis Care i ...
) in 2012.
In 2015 Hayhoe became Chairman of West London Mental Health NHS Trust (renamed
West London NHS Trust
West London NHS Trust is aNHS trustwhich provides mental and physical health services to the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham and Hounslow. It also provides some services on a national basis, including forensic and high-secur ...
in 2018) which is responsible for local inpatient and community mental health services in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow, for the
Cassel Hospital
The Cassel Hospital is a psychiatric facility in a Grade II listed building at 1 Ham Common, Richmond, Ham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is run by the West London NHS Trust.
History
The hospital
The hospital was founded ...
, and for nationally commissioned high security psychiatric services including
Broadmoor Hospital
Broadmoor Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. It is the oldest of the three high-security psychiatric hospitals in England, the other two being Ashworth Hospital near Liverpool and Rampton Secur ...
. He co-founded the Disabled NHS Directors Network in 2020 and served as its first chair.
Politics
While at Cambridge he served as chairman of the university branch of the
Tory Reform Group
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, was a member of the standing committee of the
Cambridge Union Society
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, and following graduation served as president of
Cambridge Students' Union
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.
Hayhoe was a research assistant and adviser to Conservative Party cabinet minister
Peter Walker before joining the SDP in 1981 with seven other leading younger members of the Conservative Party, including
Adair Turner
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and
Anna Soubry
Anna Mary Soubry (; born 7 December 1956) is a British barrister, journalist and former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe from 2010 to 2019. Known for her support of pro-European policies, she was originally elected ...
.
At the
1987 general election he contested
Wycombe as an SDP candidate.
Governance and organisation
Hayhoe writes on governance, organisation, political economy and the
theory of the firm
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.
Sailing
Hayhoe has competed at national and international levels in a variety of dinghy, keelboat and offshore classes, including
Firefly
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,
470,
International 14
The International 14 is a British racing sailboat, crewed by two sailors. The class was established in 1928.
The boat is a developmental sailing class and so the design rules and the boats themselves have changed dramatically over time to keep ...
,
J/24
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,
Laser
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, Laser 5000, Sigma 33, Prima 38,
SB20 and Class 40, and currently races a
National 12, a
J/105
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It was introduced in 1991 by J/Boats and designed ...
and a
Waszp. He is a former commodore of Ranelagh Sailing Club and Vice Commodore of the
Royal Ocean Racing Club. His wife, Natalie Jobling, served as a trustee of the
Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, the venue for the sailing events at the
2012 Olympic Games
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.
[Dorset Evening Echo, 19 December 2008]
References
External links
West London NHS TrustEscondido Framework
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Living people
1956 births
People from the Isle of Portland
People from Hammersmith
People educated at St Paul's School, London
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Harkness Fellows
English businesspeople in retailing
Social Democratic Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
English male sailors (sport)
British management consultants
McKinsey & Company people