Our People

Julie Bass

Julie Bass joined Turning Point as an executive board director and member of the Chief Executive’s team in 2009 and has held the position of Chief Executive since 1 April 2020.

She is passionate about health and wellbeing, and keen to see more integrated approaches to the delivery of health and social care services that fully embrace the capability, flexibility and agility offered through social enterprise and the third sector.  She is committed to equity of access challenging health inequalities and stigmas in today's society to bring about enduring change in communities.

While working in financial services for more than 20 years in the UK and abroad,  Julie became immersed in system leadership, people leadership, and risk management,  in a wide variety of roles, including holding responsibility for corporate strategy, organisational performance and development, and people related functions.

She is a third sector representative on the NHS Alliance Mental Health Network Board, a Senior Independent Director at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and chair of its People and Culture Committee. She is a Chartered Insurer, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has a PGC in executive coaching.

Clare Taylor

Clare has overall responsibility for Turning Point's service delivery across its different areas of work. She has worked in health and social care for over 26 years including roles within universities, service providers, local authority commissioning and public health.

She is Vice-Chair of Collective Voice, the umbrella body for third sector drug and alcohol treatment providers, and is passionate about improving access to services, particularly for those who need help the most.

Clare has an MSc in Addiction Studies and through her varied leadership roles has a keen interest in supporting the development of women leaders within the wider system.

David Slegg

David has worked in the health and social care sector through-out his career. He joined Turning Point in June 2020 having previously spent his career in the NHS where he worked in Finance Director roles for 27 years.

Tracey Taylor-Huckfield

Tracey has a career spanning over 25 years in strategic people leadership, with experience across the voluntary, health and public sectors. Tracey’s career has covered the organisational development of a number of different workplaces including Sue Ryder, NHS and Macmillan Cancer Support. She is highly respected and trusted as an authentic and experienced director.

Philip Newton

Philip joined Turning Point in 2007 after many years working for British Telecommunications PLC. He supports the board, executives, and senior management teams to shape the organisation from the perspective of corporate governance and strategy. 

Sarah Kennedy

Sarah joined Turning Point in 2009, having previously spent 8 years working with the National Lottery operator, Camelot, and Breast Cancer Care.

Sarah has also worked in politics in numerous roles and was a local government councillor in an inner-city London Borough. Sarah is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and is a member of the Company of Communicators.

Emma Boger

Emma is a registered nurse with 30 years’ experience in the public and third sector. She is passionate that everyone receives high quality care and support to enable them to have opportunities and lead full lives.

Before joining Turning Point, Emma worked for the Royal Mencap Society as Executive Director of Quality and Impact, and prior to that for CQC, the independent regulator for health and social care in various Senior leadership roles. Emma holds a Doctorate in Health Sciences focussing on measurement and long-term conditions.

Peter Hay CBE

In September 2018, Peter was elected Chair of Turning Point. Following a lengthy career as a director of social care services and as the former president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.

Peter is currently pursuing a variety of interests and roles in social care, housing, and wellbeing.

Peter is curious about ways of developing people’s control over their own health and wellbeing, passionate about building good lives and fascinated by the leadership styles that support these aims. For his services to health and care, Peter received a CBE in 2012.

Nicola Gilham

Nicola joined the Turning Point Board in 2018 and currently chairs the Safety & Quality Committee. She had a rewarding first career as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen, where she oversaw consulting projects both domestically and abroad.

She moved into the recruitment industry while living in Australia and worked in that sector for more than twenty years.

Nicola now pursues a portfolio non-executive career working for businesses across health and social care. She also has a long-standing interest in her local community. As such, currently, she is NED for the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Brighter Futures for Children in Reading which runs Children’s Services for the Borough, and the North West London NHS Integrated Care Board.

She is Vice Chair of Child Bereavement UK, and separately she spent several years, in a voluntary capacity, as a telephone counsellor for emotional support services.

Christian Van Stolk

Christian van Stolk joined the Turning Point Board in December 2020. Chris is very supportive of Turning Point's mission having worked with colleagues at Turning Point during a review he did for the UK government on psychological wellbeing and employment in 2016. As a Board member Chris wants to grow the reach, resilience and impact of Turning Point.

Christian is an executive vice president at RAND Europe. He has worked extensively on health and wellbeing in the workplace. His work in the past has focused on improving the health and wellbeing of staff in the National Health Service in the UK, maintaining and gaining employment for those with common mental health conditions, building an evidence base for health interventions in workplace settings, and looking at the relationship between productivity and health and wellbeing outcomes.

He has advised large private sector employers, charitable foundations, the UK government, European institutions, OECD and World Bank over the years.

Dr Louise Sell

Dr Louise Sell joined the Turning Point Board in June 2026. She is an addiction psychiatrist by background, having worked in the Northwest of England as a consultant psychiatrist and clinical director of addiction services. Her clinical interest also includes pain management. She has experience in research, service and workforce redesign, medical fitness to practise and appraisals.

Louise has worked regularly with government agencies, contributing to service inspections and the development of standards. She chaired the expert working group for the development of the 2025 UK alcohol clinical guidelines.

Louise has undertaken several roles at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, most recently writing a report on the state of training in addiction psychiatry and leading work to establish and maintain training posts, and to ensure wider opportunities for specialist training are supported.

At Board level, Louise was a medical director for 7 years and for the past 6 years she has been a non-executive director at Stockport NHS FT, serving as chair of the Quality Committee, deputy chair and senior independent director. From April 2026 she took up a role as non-executive director on the Joint Board of Stockport NHS FT and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care FT.

Mark Lee Amies

Mark joined the Turning Point Board in July 2026 and is a member of the Audit Committee. 

Mark was previously a Senior Audit Partner at Deloitte, and member of their Audit Executive, and brings extensive financial, governance and risk management expertise. At Deloitte, Mark progressed through a number of roles to lead Deloitte’s Large & Complex Audit Group, overseeing 3,000 professionals and 200 partners serving the firms largest listed and private financial services and corporate businesses whilst also personally leading FTSE 100 and global clients across Consumer, Media, Technology, and Sports sectors. He was also Executive Sponsor for the Future of Audit Programme set up to drive adoption of new technologies, including AI.  

In addition, earlier in his career, Mark spent 5 years with the Economist Group, a secondment acting as CFO for Eurostar, and obtained an MBA from Manchester Business School.

As well as Turning Point, Mark is also a Trustee and Audit Committee Chair of The Invictus Games Birmingham 2027, an event which will use the power of adaptive sport to inspire recovery, provide a purpose & support rehabilitation, and generate a wider understanding and respect for wounded, injured, and sick military service personnel and veterans, and  a Trustee of 40Tude, an innovative UK health charity dedicated to curing colon (bowel) cancer by championing early detection, raising public awareness, and funding primary medical research.

Dawn Kenson

Dawn joined the Turning Point Board in January 2023. After a career where she was responsible for the combined regulated sales forces of The Woolwich and Barclays Bank, Dawn moved into non-executive work and built a portfolio in, and supporting, the public sector.

Dawn has held roles in a wide variety of organisations spanning central government, Arms Length Bodies, a housing association and the NHS. Currently she sits on the NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board, with a special interest in service delivery and has been the Senior Independent Director at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust for the past seven years. She holds a degree in Mathematics and Statistics and qualified as an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute.

Dr Chris Streather

Chris joined the Turning Point board in January 2026. He is trained as a renal physician and worked in dialysis and kidney transplantation at St Georges for 12 years. He has had more than 20 years board experience as a chief executive and a medical director and is now the medical director for the NHS London. He leads on life science strategy for the London NHS, and jointly with the chief nurse on clinical quality. 

He was the clinical lead for the reconfiguration of stroke services in London 15 years ago and now co-chairs the national committee that promotes the adoption of mechanical thrombectomy and is himself a stroke survivor. He has held a variety of non-executive and trustee roles in the statutory and charitable sector and is firmly committed to improving cardiovascular prevention and narrowing inequality in the provision of health and care. 

Julie Bass

Julie Bass joined Turning Point as an executive board director and member of the Chief Executive’s team in 2009 and has held the position of Chief Executive since 1 April 2020.

She is passionate about health and wellbeing, and keen to see more integrated approaches to the delivery of health and social care services that fully embrace the capability, flexibility and agility offered through social enterprise and the third sector.  She is committed to equity of access challenging health inequalities and stigmas in today's society to bring about enduring change in communities.

While working in financial services for more than 20 years in the UK and abroad,  Julie became immersed in system leadership, people leadership, and risk management,  in a wide variety of roles, including holding responsibility for corporate strategy, organisational performance and development, and people related functions.

She is a third sector representative on the NHS Alliance Mental Health Network Board, a Senior Independent Director at Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and chair of its People and Culture Committee. She is a Chartered Insurer, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has a PGC in executive coaching.

David Slegg

David has worked in the health and social care sector through-out his career. He joined Turning Point in June 2020 having previously spent his career in the NHS where he worked in Finance Director roles for 27 years.