John is a retired Deputy Head teacher who worked in state schools for forty years, teaching various subjects including history, economics, politics, psychology and law. He and his wife Marian, who passed away at the end of 2016, have lived in Alton since 1987 and had three sons and three grand-children.
John is a passionate supporter of the NHS and has been a member of the stakeholder reference group for the North Hampshire CCG. He believes that key aspects of the NHS, such as A and E, need to be fully funded to meet all reasonable needs, ideally by a specific tax payable by all or most of the population.
John's other interests include supporting his local church and volunteering as a Community care driver. He owns and manages a specialist online photograph archive which supplies images for books and magazines.
Beauman is a retired IT company director. He came to the UK from Hong Kong over 50 years ago. He is passionate about the NHS and has been a volunteer at the County Hospital for over 5 years, doing one job for the chaplaincy team and another for the audiology department.
He believes that most of us can contribute and make small improvements for our hospitals. He encourages everyone in the Health Service to spend carefully and always ask – what would I do if this was my money before signing any contracts with any NHS suppliers. He was described as an ‘NHS Hero’ by the Guardian Newspaper in 2009 for his work at the Portsmouth Hospital.
Beauman is married with two children. He is a Churchwarden of his local church in Winchester, a Trustee for the Church Mission Society and the Winchester Basics Bank.
Malcolm grew up in the Compton and Shawford area south of Winchester. He maintained connections to the area through family and decided to return after retirement following a medical career that took him around the UK, from Liverpool University, via an Allan Postgraduate Research Fellowship at The University of Edinburgh to a Consultant post in Renal Medicine in Lanarkshire, Central Scotland. As Clinical Lead for Nephrology he became heavily involved in managing the development of Renal Services within the Trust and the integration of the service with the Glasgow Renal Team. In addition to developing specialist medical services, he was also involved in audit and clinical/system case reviews, with the purpose of improving access to care, treatment pathways and patient safety.
On their retirement from the NHS in 2020 he and his wife returned to the Winchester area. He has continued a voluntary connection to the NHS through work with the Human Tissue Authority and helps to promote safety at sea as a Watchkeeper for the National Coastwatch Institution.
Steve worked as a lecturer in further education and as an educational psychologist in local government for many years before joining the Civil Service College, running interchange programmes for the emerging leaders of Government and the private sector.
After a stint as CEO of a company providing Employment Assistance Programmes, Steve set up his own consultancy providing applied psychology to senior leaders, their teams and organisations across all sectors including the UN, helping people to be better leaders, to bring about cultural change and improve outcomes.
As a former non-executive director of Healthwatch Hampshire representing the citizen and patient voice within the developing Integrated Care Service (ICS), Steve saw how important it is to ensure that citizens are engaged in the design, running and appraisal of local health services.
Margaret Paull was born in London and educated at South Hampstead High School, a member of the GDST group of schools. She decided early on to teach, and took her teacher qualification at Homerton College, Cambridge. She is now a full alumnus of Cambridge University.
Margaret taught in London schools, including at Guy’s Hospital, and developed an interest in emotional and behavioural difficulties and disability. This led to a Diploma course at London University in the education of children with physical and neurological disabilities. It was this course that formed the bedrock of her later career. Further degrees at London University followed, including qualification as an educational psychologist, with distinction in both academic and clinical studies, and also a MPhil research study.
At this time, Margaret was working as an Education Officer for SCOPE, with responsibility for the many Day Centres for severely profoundly and multiply disabled children and adults all around the country. This was a time of great change, whereby responsibility for these children transferred from health to education, and a full National Curriculum. Margaret was also gaining experience attending and presenting papers at Conferences, at both national and international level.
Margaret then moved to Hampshire, taking up a senior lectureship at King Alfred’s College, now Winchester University, with responsibility for all courses in SEND from undergraduate to Master’s and PhD level.
In the year 2000 Margaret was asked by Cerebral Palsy Greece if she would go there for a year as their General Director to improve their Services and help their school to transition and register with the Greek Government. This would provide much needed funding, and fully qualified teachers. Margaret had built up strong relations with the organisation over 20 years but this was nevertheless a steep learning curve, earning the trust of staff, building up committees, and also attempting to communicate with rudimentary Greek language skills! The year was very challenging but a lot was learnt about communicating and achieving successful goals.
In the latter part of her career Margaret was asked to carry out assessments for the Dyslexia Institute, which she did for several years. This experience developed into a flourishing career of independent assessments, not only for private individuals but also for criminal defence lawyers, and also for the British Army. Both these latter impressed as most caring organisations towards extremely vulnerable, often very young, members of our society.
Margaret was much in demand for day courses provided by Hampshire Education Authority for practicing teachers involved in SEND, and also worked for OFSTED as an inspector in both special and mainstream schools. She has carried out school inspections and other consultancy work abroad, particularly in the Middle East.
Having fully retired recently, Margaret is looking forward very much to meeting with others now in her new Governor’s role, learning and hopefully contributing to their valuable work.
