Over a dozen trust chief executives have been selected by NHS England to lead a nationwide improvement drive on emergency and elective care.
The CEOs will head up 16 learning and improvement networks as part of the NHS England’s Impact programme.
The move is the latest in NHSE’s attempt to involve local leaders in the service’s recovery efforts. Earlier this month two integrated care board chief executives and a trust CEO were appointed as unpaid, part-time NHSE directors. Other trust CEOs such as Milton Keynes’ Joe Harrrison andCambridge’s Roland Sinker also already lead NHSE programmes. University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust CEO Andy Hardy is the national lead for the Impact Programme.
Each NHSE region has been given two improvement leads. They are:
North East and Yorkshire (two LINs)
Birju Bartoli (Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust) – Urgent and emergency care, and elective Phil Wood (Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust) – UEC and elective
North West (two LINs)
Aaron Cummins (University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay FT) – UEC Janelle Holmes (Wirral University Teaching Hospital FT) – elective
Midlands (four LINs)
Glen Burley (George Eliot Hospital Trust, South Warwickshire University FT, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust, Wye Valley Trust) – UEC and elective Richard Mitchell (University Hospitals of Leicester Trust/University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Group) – UEC and elective
East of England (two LINs)
Adam Sewell-Jones (East and North Hertfordshire Trust) – elective Nick Hulme (East Suffolk and North Essex FT) – UEC
London (two LINs)
Matthew Trainer (Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust) – UEC Lesley Watts (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital FT) – elective
South East (two LINs)
Louise Stead (Royal Surrey County Hospital FT) – elective Miles Scott (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust) – UEC
South West (two LINs)
Peter Lewis (Somerset FT) – UEC Siobhan Harrington (University Hospitals Dorset FT) – elective
NHSE said the LINs will provide an opportunity to bring clinical and operational leaders together to learn from each other and share the best practice identified by the Impact programme.
Each LIN has been asked to work up a “limited” number of proposals on how to deliver best practice ideas in elective and emergency care so they can be tested ”at scale”.
NHS deputy chief operating officer Sarah-Jane Marsh, and national director of transformation Vin Diwakarwrote in a letter to local leaders that the chosen chief executives would contact them in the coming weeks to discuss how they can get involved in the programme.
They stressed that LINs will not replace existing improvement programmes or operational arrangements, or form part of oversight or performance management.
Date: 30 September