Our Board

Our Board sets our strategy, and provides scrutiny, oversight and governance across all our work.

Our Board holds the executive team to account on delivering our aims, objectives and priorities to meet the requirements set out in the Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Act 2020 and our wider public sector duties.

As a Board we are passionate that:

Our work is informed by the people living in Wales. We work directly and with others to identify the PEOPLE’S PRIORITIES.

We want to be an organisation where inclusivity, integrity, compassion and mutual respect drives all that we do. We will work with our people to develop this approach.
Our focus is on building relationships with a wide range of people, community representative groups and organisations so that we can work together to use our collective resources to make a difference.
It is vitally important to us that we maintain our independence to most effectively communicate the views of the people and communities of Wales.

Join our Board!

We are committed to meaningful representation for the citizens of Wales.

If you are also passionate about health and social care, consider joining our board.

For further information on the role and application process, please click the link below.

Apply to be on our board

Board Members

Alyson Thomas - Chief Executive

Professor Medwin Hughes - Chair

Grace Quantock - Vice Chair

Bamidele Adenipekun - Non-Executive Member

Jack Evershed - Non-Executive Member

Jason Smith - Non-Executive Member

Karen Lewis - Non-Executive Member

Dr Rajan Madhok - Non-Executive Member

Mwoyo Makuto - Associate Member

Our Meetings

We want people to be as involved as possible in Llais and so we hold our Board meetings in public at different locations around Wales, which anyone can join, in person or online using Zoom. When choosing where we hold our meetings, we will consider public transport access and accessibility standards to make sure as many people as possible can attend in person if they want to.

The location and details of each public Board meeting will be listed below as soon as they are known, please click on the dates below to find out more detail about each date.

There are two ways you can attend a Board meeting either in person or online via Zoom.

Registering your attendance in person

Please let us know at least 2 working days before the meeting if you are planning to attend in person and if you have any particular communication needs that we can help with. You can do this by emailing [email protected].

Registering your online attendance

Please also let us know at least 2 working days before the meeting if you are planning to attend online via Zoom, and if you have any particular communication needs that we can help with.

You can register your attendance by emailing your full name, email address, contact number and organisation if applicable to [email protected]. Once registered, you will receive the Zoom link via email to attend the meeting.

There will be an opportunity for questions from the public at each of our meetings. If you have any questions you would like the Board to answer, we ask that you submit them in writing to [email protected] by midday the day before the meeting.

Our agendas and meeting papers

The agenda and papers for each of the Board meetings will be included on the website below and will be provided in both English and Welsh. These will be available no later than 3 working days before the meeting.

If you would like the Board papers in any other language, please contact us via email [email protected]

We are passionate about making our activities accessible to as many people as we can, this includes the work of our Board. As Llais we have the opportunity to do things differently, so we are always considering how we communicate our Board activities to make them as open and transparent as possible (including what happens at our meetings). We know that accessibility means different things to different people with differing needs. There is not a one size fits all approach. This is why we ask people to tell us how they want to work with us, and we would like to hear from you about the best way for us to communicate our Board meetings.

If you have an idea - Let us know what you think. Or email us at [email protected]

The views and experiences people have shared with us are discussed and decisions are made about different aspects of our work. Llais ensures that individuals’ confidentiality is maintained at all times.