At Signature Clinic, patient safety and quality of care are central to everything we do. Our Clinical Governance & Oversight Team provides the leadership, systems, and oversight that ensure every aspect of our service meets the highest clinical, ethical, and regulatory standards.
The team is directly involved in ensuring full compliance with national regulatory bodies — including HIW, HIS, CQC, and GMC — through robust monitoring, audit cycles, policy development, and evidence-based practice. This includes proactive preparation for inspections, continuous quality assurance, and transparent reporting across all clinical services.
We oversee risk management, incident review, workforce standards, and ongoing service improvement across every clinic location. Each member of the Governance & Oversight Team brings extensive experience in healthcare quality, regulation, and clinical leadership, working together to maintain safe, effective, and compassionate patient care at all times.
Director of Clinical Services
Valerie Taylor
RN, BSc
Valerie leads the operational delivery of clinical services across all Signature Clinic locations, ensuring care that is safe, effective, and consistently patient-centred. With deep experience in healthcare quality, service improvement, and regulatory compliance, she oversees governance activity, workforce standards, and operational assurance across the organisation.
Her career demonstrates strong internal progression and increasing responsibility, with proven expertise in stakeholder engagement, team performance, and the set-up and delivery of complex referral services. She brings a strong understanding of both primary and secondary care and plays a key role in budget planning and operational ownership.
Valerie adopts a consultative, solution-led approach to leadership and ensures clinical quality remains central to all service delivery. A fully qualified Registered Nurse with extensive clinical and ITU experience, she combines frontline insight with robust management skills to drive high-performing, safe, and continuously improving services.
Chief Clinical Officer
John Fairhurst
RODP, DipHE, BSc (Hons), CMgr MCMI
John leads clinical governance, patient safety, and regulatory assurance across Signature Clinic. With over 17 years of perioperative and senior clinical leadership experience, he oversees compliance, incident and risk management, clinical policy, and audit activity across all sites.
Qualified in Operating Department Practice and with an Honours Degree in Healthcare Leadership, John is also a Chartered Manager and full member of the CMI. He is currently completing an MBA to further strengthen his strategic and operational leadership.
John works closely with clinical and operational teams to ensure Signature Clinic meets — and exceeds — the standards set by HIW, HIS, CQC, GMC, and other regulators. His focus is on accountability, continuous improvement, and delivering consistently safe, high-quality care.
Patient Experience Manager
Manjit Gill
BA (Hons)
Manjit leads the development and delivery of Signature Clinic’s patient experience strategy. She monitors patient feedback, coordinates service-improvement initiatives, and ensures every patient receives high-quality communication and compassionate care throughout their journey.
With a strong background in patient engagement and service quality, Manjit works closely with clinical and administrative teams to review feedback, identify themes, and translate insights into practical improvements. She supports teams in implementing consistent standards, strengthening communication pathways, and embedding behaviours that promote dignity, respect, and personalised care.
Manjit oversees the collection, analysis, and reporting of patient experience data, ensuring findings are shared transparently and used to inform governance discussions and operational decisions. She plays a key role in shaping training, patient-facing materials, and processes that enhance clarity, accessibility, and patient confidence.
Working across all clinics, she champions a culture of openness, responsiveness, and continuous learning. Her commitment to amplifying the patient voice ensures that services evolve in line with patient needs, expectations, and emerging best practice—ultimately supporting safe, positive, and meaningful patient experiences.
Complaints Manager
Kelly Ellis
Kelly oversees Signature Clinic’s complaints process, ensuring concerns are managed promptly, fairly, and in line with regulatory expectations. With strong experience in patient relations and governance, she leads thorough complaint investigations, coordinates timely responses, and ensures clear, compassionate communication with patients throughout the process.
Kelly works closely with clinical and administrative teams to gather evidence, review care pathways, and identify opportunities to strengthen practice. She analyses themes and trends across complaints, feeding insights into governance meetings and supporting service improvement initiatives. Her work plays a key role in driving organisational learning, enhancing patient experience, and ensuring teams remain accountable and reflective.
Dedicated to transparency and continuous improvement, Kelly ensures that Signature Clinic’s complaints handling remains open, fair, and aligned with national standards and healthcare best practice. Her measured, empathetic approach supports both patients and staff, helping the organisation to respond to concerns with integrity, consistency, and genuine commitment to better outcomes.
Senior Nurse & Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Lead
Leeanne Fairhurst
RN, DipHE, BSc (Hons) SCPHN
Leeanne provides senior clinical leadership across Signature Clinic’s nursing workforce and serves as the organisation’s IPC Lead. With a background spanning anaesthetics, health visiting, perioperative education, and service development, she oversees staff training, competency frameworks, and clinical practice development.
As IPC Lead, she develops and monitors infection prevention policies, leads audits, and supports safe, hygienic clinical environments across all clinics. She is currently completing a Postgraduate Certificate in Infection Prevention & Control, further strengthening her expertise and authority in this specialist area.
Leeanne plays a key role in governance activities, contributes to regulatory assurance, and supports continuous improvement across all clinical settings. Her commitment to patient safety and evidence-based practice underpins her leadership and helps maintain consistently high standards of care throughout the organisation.
Regional Manager & Health and Safety Lead
Dhiren Varand
BA (Hons)
Dhiren oversees operational performance across multiple clinic sites and leads Signature Clinic’s health and safety strategy. He ensures all environments meet statutory requirements, supports compliance inspections, and maintains safe, efficient, and well-managed clinical settings for patients and staff.
With a strong background in healthcare and commercial operations, Dhiren brings senior management experience from roles including Regional Manager, Head of Operations, Hospital Manager, Commercial Manager, and Area Manager. His expertise spans multi-site leadership, workforce coordination, and service delivery.
He works closely with clinical and administrative teams to uphold high standards in safety, facilities management, and regulatory compliance. Known for his proactive and solutions-driven approach, Dhiren drives consistency, strengthens operational resilience, and ensures services operate to the highest standards of safety and efficiency.
Human Resources Manager
Roksana Szewzyk
Roksana leads the HR function at Signature Clinic, driving safe recruitment, workforce compliance, and the ongoing development of a skilled, supported, and high-performing team. She oversees policies, onboarding, training pathways, and performance processes, ensuring the organisation maintains a strong, well-led workforce aligned with regulatory expectations.
Her background includes experience as HR Manager and Compliance Manager at Signature Clinic, giving her a deep understanding of workforce governance, safeguarding requirements, and regulatory workforce standards. Alongside her HR leadership role, she brings additional expertise from her position as Head of Recruitment at Y1 Capital, strengthening her capability in talent acquisition, strategic workforce planning, and multi-site staffing support.
Roksana is known for her structured, professional approach to people management, balancing compassion with accountability to maintain safe, effective, and compliant services across the organisation.
Group Pharmacist
Anjana Odedra
MRPharmS
Anjana serves as Signature Clinic’s Group Pharmacist, providing expert oversight of medicines management, prescribing governance, and pharmaceutical safety across all clinic locations. She ensures robust systems are in place for safe storage, handling, and administration of medicines, and supports clinical teams with evidence-based guidance on prescribing, formulary use, and medication safety.
With extensive experience in both clinical and community pharmacy, Anjana plays a key role in policy development, controlled drugs compliance, and audit activity. Her work strengthens regulatory assurance and supports safe, effective treatment pathways for all patients.
Anjana collaborates closely with medical, nursing, and operational teams to maintain high standards of pharmaceutical practice, reduce medication-related risks, and promote a culture of accuracy, accountability, and continual improvement in medicines governance.