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, deputy 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
- Communications
- 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
Charlie Helps, interim associate director of corporate affairs
- Risk management
- Policy management
- Freedom of Information (FOI)
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