A NEW director structure has been put in place at health care trusts across Dorset in order to transform the organisations.
It comes after the new Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust acquired the running of community health services from NHS Dorset and NHS Bournemouth and Poole earlier this year.
The new £200million organisation has put in place a new director structure to implement the trust’s new community services.
They will work to look at the services provided alongside GPs, primary care teams and social services.
Roger Browning, chief executive of the Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The new Directors of Services are responsible for encouraging flexible, integrated working at the patient/service user levels ensuring strong clinical and patient/service user and carer involvement.”
Linda Boland has become the director of Pan Dorset Children and Young Peoples’ Services, Val Graves – the director of Pan Dorset Community Health Services, James Barton of Pan Dorset Mental Health Services, Sally O’Donnell – director of Pan Dorset Community Hospital Services, David Fitzpatrick-Cockram – director of Pan Dorset and Southampton Primary Care Psychological Therapies.
Tim Archer continues as Nurse Executive Director of the trust.
The trust provides community health services across a range of specialist areas including, mental health, learning disability and addictions as well as the running of Dorset’s 11 community hospitals.
SOURCE: http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/9457912.New_structure_for_health_care_trusts_across_Dorset/
