The Symphony Healthcare Services Board of Directors is directly involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation and has experience from a wide range of healthcare professionals and advocates.
The Board role is to direct and control the organisation in the public’s interest and is tasked with ensuring accountability to the public and to its parent company, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. All the Board members take collective responsibility for the Board’s decisions and performance.
The main function of the Board of Directors is to establish strategic direction, aims and values of the organisation, and ensure that these are delivered. The Board also has a duty to understand and manage risk.
Board of Directors
Dr Rosie Benneyworth was a GP in Taunton for many years and worked with practices across the county as a clinical commissioner with the Primary Care Trust (PCT) and Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Over the last few years, she has held leadership roles in some national organisations – as Vice-Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and now as CEO of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body. Throughout all her roles, she has been interested in how to improve the quality and safety of care for the public that the NHS serves.
Kerry commenced her NHS career through the NHS Management Graduate Scheme in 2002 based within Slough, Berkshire and has a MSc in Health Care Management. During the next 15 years Kerry has worked in senior operational and strategic management roles within NHS hospitals in Somerset including Deputy Director of Operations at Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Kerry joined SHS as Chief Operating Officer in 2018 and then went on to be appointed as Managing Director in 2019.
Dr Kelsey Boddington has been a General Practitioner at Exmoor Medical Centre since 2016, following her medical training at Cardiff University. Deeply committed to rural healthcare, Kelsey is passionate about collaborative, community-focused approaches that address the health and wellbeing needs of local populations.
Her early experiences studying at a United World College in Canada and volunteering in remote communities in Uganda and the Arctic helped shape her global perspective and strengthened her commitment to service. Upon returning to her home community, she brought that vision to life by championing neighbourhood working in West Somerset.
Kelsey has held several key leadership roles, including Clinical Lead of Exmoor Medical Centre, Clinical Director of the West Somerset Primary Care Network, and Chair of the West Somerset Neighbourhood Board. Since 2019, she has also represented the Taunton and West Somerset locality at various county-level health boards.
In September 2024, Kelsey was appointed Medical Director Designate of Symphony Healthcare Services and officially assumed the role of Medical Director in September 2025. She continues to balance this leadership position with her clinical work as a GP, maintaining a strong connection to the communities she serves.
David was previously the director of strategy and digital development for both Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust before the trusts merged in April 2023. David first joined Musgrove Park Hospital in 2016 as director of finance and went on to become the director of strategic development and improvement for both Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust before the two trusts merged in 2020. David was previously director of operational finance at North Bristol NHS Trust from June 2014. Before that he spent six years at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, most of them as assistant director of finance. He originally joined the NHS in 1998 on its graduate financial management training scheme.
Andy was one of two chief operating officers for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust before the trusts merged in April 2023 and is now the single chief operating officer and deputy chief executive for the trust (the Parent Company of Symphony). Andy joined the NHS in Somerset in 2014 when he joined Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as chief operating officer. Having originally qualified as an occupational therapist, he worked in a number of clinical roles within mental health across the south west before moving into leadership roles during the 1990s. Andy played a role in the establishment of a new specialist NHS mental health trust serving the Avon and Wiltshire areas and became the general manager of mental health services for seven years up to 2006. Following this, Andy gained a broad range of experience in London and the south west in senior commissioning and provider roles in the NHS, and also in social care, with most of his work being focused on service modernisation. Andy maintains a strong interest in care pathway redesign and service transformation and in recent years has taken on a number of system leadership roles within Somerset, centred on improving patient flow and working with partners in the development of successful community alternatives to hospital admission. Andy was the joint senior responsible officer for the Somerset COVID-19 Vaccination Programme.
Following thirty years in the Police service, Paul transferred to a career in information and IT security. As a civil servant operating from London, he had the position of National Accreditor for Police Information Systems. In 2007 he moved to an IT Security company based in Cheltenham providing accreditation services to government departments again mainly in the London area.
Since moving from Hampshire to Somerset in 2010, Paul has volunteered as a Parish Councillor in Martock, the Martock Job Club, and assisted in various local activities. Currently he is chair of the Martock Youth Centre which provides a facility for youth services run by a local youth project as well as the local Army Cadet corps. He also volunteers as a reader at the local primary school.
Paul has been a member of the Martock and South Petherton Patient Participation Group (PPG) since 2019 and is currently chair of the PPG.
Executive Team
Sian joined Symphony as Finance Director in 2026 bringing nearly two decades of experience working across the NHS. After beginning her career at Musgrove Park Hospital, she joined the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant. Since then, she has worked in a variety of finance and leadership roles across NHS provider and commissioning organisations throughout the South West, including roles as Associate and Deputy Director of Finance.
Lynsey is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and has over 17 years of HR and people services management experience. She has previously worked in the private sector for a large Ministry of Defence contractor in the Southwest of England before joining Symphony Healthcare Services in 2015 and supporting the organisation’s initial establishment and subsequent growth and expansion. Lynsey leads on workforce development, staff retention and engagement and learning and development and is responsible for the strategic direction of the people services function.
After obtaining a LLB Law degree in 2013, Bryony began working in Human Resources for a large retail chain prior to joining the NHS in 2015. After initially supporting the establishment and work of the Symphony Vanguard Programme, Bryony continued working under the Symphony umbrella by supporting the subsequent establishment and management of Symphony Healthcare Services. Bryony leads on contractual and digital changes across the organisation and undertakes the role of Company Secretary advising on Corporate Governance.
