Trust Board Febuary 2010 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

SWBTB (2/10) 043 (a)
In summary, the above changes are designed to:
• Ensure that the workforce function retains strong executive leadership, well aligned to
operational and strategic priorities
• Increase the strategic capacity of the Trust at a time of substantial change, particularly in
the external environment
• Improve the organisational development capabilities of the Trust, ensuring that our many
positive initiatives are properly planned and co-ordinated
• Deliver the savings in executive management costs required by the Cost Improvement
Programme for 2010/11.
The Chief Nurse will take on responsibility for Workforce from 1 April 2010. The recruitment
process for the Director of Strategy and OD will commence as soon as practicable.
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
There were a set of reasons for considering changes to the operational management
structure during the winter including:
• establishment of Clinical Directorates – the need to provide high-quality management
support at CD level and the impact on Divisional structures;
• changes in the DGM team - a retirement and the departure of one DGM for a new role in
a different trust;
• changes to the structure for IM&T and Elective Access – the existing arrangements had
evolved over time under the previous COO;
• the scale of the management agenda going forward – including the need to ensure we
are able to improve both quality and productivity and deliver the ambitious Right Care,
Right Here agenda and the need to demonstrate the management structure was
delivering its contribution to the CIP for 2010/11.
In order to respond to these issues the following changes were agreed at December TMB.
• Merge the two divisions of Medicine and Emergency Care creating a single trust-wide
Division of Medicine and Emergency Care. This will:
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support moves to integrate medical specialities across the trust;
provide opportunities to support the development of clinical directorates in
medicine;
support the increasing integration of emergency care services across the
trust.
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