January 2012 - Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals

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4.0 Progress to date
4.1 Since March 2010, it has become increasingly apparent that there is considerable
amount of work to be carried out to ensure that the organisation knows what needs to be
done to achieve SLM in a form that will be recognisable to those working in the Trust. The
areas of work to be focused on have been themed using the 4 work streams identified in the
Monitor toolkit. These are:
Organisation structure
Information Management
Performance Management
Strategy and planning
4.2 What has become evident is that the work streams need to be project managed in a very
structured way to ensure that outputs are realised within agreed timescales. The SLM
Steering Group agreed that, to ensure strong senior leadership, each of the above work
streams should have an executive director to lead the work. The leaders are all from within
the membership of the SLM Steering Group.
Organisation structure ‐
Information Management ‐
Performance Management ‐
Strategy & Planning ‐
Rachel Barlow (Chief Operating Officer)
Robert White (Director of Finance)
Donal O’Donoghue (Medical Director)
Mike Sharon (Director of Strategy & Organisational
Development)
4.3 The main enabling projects are: continuing to develop division and directorate
structures, financial information systems which include service line reporting, patient level
costing, and cross charging and the development of aligned budgetary structures, continuing
of development of the Quality Management Framework (QMF) and performance
management practice, and a more granular approach to strategy and planning.
5.0 Organisation structures
5.1 The key enablers for organisation structure development are: a clear service‐line
structure; defined service line leadership roles, and capability linked, defined decision rights
at each level of the organisation.
The operational divisions are currently defined as:
Surgery, Anaesthetics and Critical Care,
Surgery B,
Medicine & Emergency Care,
Women’s and Child Health
Imaging
Pathology.
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