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Heartbeat: New structure to deliver group and organisational strategy

February 18, 2022

The medicine and emergency care group has undergone a restructure that has been fully launched 2022.

Work to review how the group works and ensure colleagues and patients are supported adequately has been a year in planning.

Heartbeat caught up with Demetri Wade, Group Director of Operations to find out more. He said: “When we embarked on this project we wanted to ensure that the way we work as a team is consolidated to meet the requirements of service delivery.

“This meant looking at the roles that we needed in each area at all levels. I’m pleased that for all but one of many of the new posts created we were able to make internal promotions. This demonstrated that we are keen to develop our staff and give them opportunities to grow their careers.”

Each directorate within the group is set up to be clinically led with operations colleagues supporting the delivery of services.

“We set up three distinct directorates – emergency care, admitted care A and admitted care B,” added Demetri. “These are three self-sufficient directorates with established leadership teams. In reality this means we now have appropriate representation of nursing, medical, AHP and HCS staff. As I mentioned before there is also a clear line of development for the team and we want colleagues to take advantage of opportunities that are available.

“Our new structure also ensures we have senior level of experience to provide strategic overview and direction allowing staff to get on with their day to day duties. This enables us to think ahead instead of being reactive and only focussing on each day.

“The last two years have been particularly hard on our teams, but despite the pressures everyone has really done a fantastic job and they should be proud. One of our main goals with the new structure is to ensure we are staffed appropriately so we can better support staff in clinical delivery of our services but also enable improved access to wellbeing and personal development activities.”