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:

[* indicates executive director]

David French, interim CEO and chief financial officer*

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

Dr Derek Sandeman, medical director *

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

Gail Byrne, director of nursing and organisational development *

• Governance and patient safety
• Education and leadership development
• Patient experience
• Clinical practice and outcomes
• Professional regulation and standards (nursing and professions allied to medicine)
• Complaints and patient support services
• Caldicott guardian
• Human resources
• Volunteers 
• End of life care
• Safeguarding
• Fundraising

Joe Teape, chief operating officer *

• Major incident planning
• Security, including Prevent strategies
• Exec lead for major trauma
• Exec lead for cancer
• Divisions A-D
• Public relations
• Patient involvement and engagement
• Membership services
• GP engagement

Jane Hayward, director of transformation and improvement *

• Transformation programme
• Cost improvement programme
• IT and information governance
• Performance management of quality and access targets
• Whole system changes
• External provider relationships
• Senior information risk owner (SIRO)
• Strategy
• Contracting and commissioning
• Business and capacity planning

Divisions A to 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, ophthalmology and pathology

Division C

Women and newborn, child health and support services

Division D

Cardiovascular and thoracic, neurosciences, trauma and orthopaedics, radiology