Divisions and departments

Key members of staff reporting direct to the chief executive, including the executive directors of the trust, each have a portfolio of responsibilities:

 

Key staff responsibilities

Post

Portfolio responsibilities

Medical director*

Dr Michael Marsh

  • Research and development
  • Clinical effectiveness
  • Clinical practice and outcomes
  • Professional regulation and standards (doctors and consultants)
  • GP relationships

Director of nursing*

Judy Gillow

  • Governance and patient safety
  • Education
  • Patient experience
  • Clinical practice and outcomes
  • Professional regulation and standards (nursing and professions allied to medicine)
  • Leadership development 
  • Complaints and PALS
  • Health and safety

Director of finance and investment*

Alastair Matthews

  • Financial management
  • Financial strategy
  • Investment and ROI
  • Audit
  • Procurement
  • Capital programme management
  • Estates

Chief operating office*

Steve McManus

  • Performance management
  • Business intelligence
  • Patient services
  • Environment and maintenance
  • Divisions A-D
  • Capacity planning
  • Business continuity
  • Emergency planning
  • Chaplaincy
  • Bereavement care
  • Volunteers 

Director of strategy*

Mike Murphy

  • Commercial development
  • Strategy
  • Commissioning
  • ISTC
  • Business and capacity planning
  • IBP development
  • PCT/Trust relationships

Director of organisational development*

Jane Hayward

  • Cost improvement and transformation
  • Information technology
  • Information governance
  • Core platform systems
  • Informatics development
  • Human resources and workforce

Director of communications and public engagement

Alison Ayres

  • Public relations
  • Patient involvement and engagement
  • Communications
  • Brand
  • Membership services
  • Fundraising

Trust secretary / director of corporate affairs

Sarah Anderson 

  • Constitution
  • Members' council
  • Foundation Trust compliance
  • Legal services
  • Insurance

* executive director

Divisions A-D

The Trust’s four divisions report to the chief operating officer.

Division A

Surgery, cancer care, critical care and theatres

Division B

Emergency medicine, specialist medicine and ophthalmology, radiology and pathology

Division C

Obstetric and gynaecology, paediatrics, and therapies and non-clinical support 

Division D

Cardiovascular and thoracic, neurosciences, trauma and orthopaedics