Message from David Carruthers, Acting Chief Executive – Appointment of Frieza Mahmood as Chief People Officer

December 21, 2020

I am delighted to be able to announce that we have appointed Frieza Mahmood to the executive director position of Chief People Officer, succeeding  Raffaela Goodby who had left earlier in the year for a post at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Hospitals.

Many of you will know Frieza already as deputy director of people and organisational development, a post she has successfully held and delivered on for the last 20 months at our Trust, and we were delighted to be able to offer her the formal director role after competitive interviews last week.

As you can imagine, the breadth of the role is wide with a major focus on development and implementation of a people strategy for sustainable and transformational services in the Trust, developing an inclusive and open culture, ensuring organisation wide change supporting our objectives and strategic goals in attraction, retention and engagement. With the MMUH development progressing well, these aims become all the more important and exciting and I hope that you will join with me in congratulating Frieza on her well-deserved appointment and commit to working with her in delivery of the key objectives of the role.

Frieza will take up the position formally in the new year at a date to be determined shortly.