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, chief executive officer*
Ian Howard, interim chief financial officer*
- Financial management
- Financial strategy
- Investment and ROI
- Audit
- Procurement
- Capital programme management
- Estates
- Commercial development
Paul Grundy, chief medical officer *
- Research and development
- Clinical effectiveness
- Clinical practice and outcomes
- Professional regulation and standards (doctors and consultants)
- GP relationships
Gail Byrne, chief nursing officer *
- 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
- Patient involvement and engagement
- GP engagement
Steve Harris, chief people officer *
- HR management
- Recruitment,
- Employee relations
- Organisational development
- Staff engagement
- Education, training and, development
- People strategy/ workforce planning
- Staff health and wellbeing (inc OccupationalHealth)
- Communications
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Charitable funds
Andrew Asquith, director of planning, performance and productivity
- CIP management and delivery
- Productivity improvement
- Performance reporting and management
- National and local insight and intelligence
- Annual planning
- Business casesS
- Strategic and annual demand
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