We are delighted to announce that Jo Bowden has been appointed Interim Director of Finance at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust following a formal recruitment process. 

Jo was previously our Deputy Director of Finance and had been Acting Director of Finance since 1st July 2025, following the departure of James Thomson.  

Jo trained with the Audit Commission and qualified as an accountant in 1999. She has experience across the public sector including the NHS, education, local authority, and police, fire and probation.

Jo joined the NHS in 2005 and set up Mersey Internal Audit Agency's (MIAA) Manchester office. In 2008, she moved to Salford Primary Care Trust as a project accountant managing change programmes including the opening of five new health centres. She helped to set up NHS Property Services' Manchester office in 2012 before moving to Health Education England in 2015 as National Head of Financial Services. 
 
Since February 2021, Jo has also been a director of Clatterbridge Pharmacy Ltd (trading as PharmaC), our wholly-owned community pharmacy company. Her most recent achievements include establishing the PharmaC logistics service and negotiating the contract for PharmaC to take over from Lloyds Pharmacy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT). 

Jo holds both CIPFA and CIMA accountancy qualifications. 

Chief Executive Joan Spencer said:

Jo has a fantastic depth and breadth of financial expertise and experience. She is also hugely knowledgeable about our services, income and costs and how to manage them wisely to deliver the best for our patients. I am delighted she has been appointed Director of Finance and very much look forward to working with her in her new role.

Speaking of her appointment, Jo said:

Our mission at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is to drive improved experience and outcomes for people with cancer, and we can only do that if we manage our finances really well. I know how important the care we provide is, and the difference it makes. I’m thrilled to have been appointed to this role and my priority will be continuing the great work that James did as Director of Finance, and making sure we can continue to deliver the very best for patients with the funding we receive.