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Come along to Richard’s annual plan ‘town hall’ sessions

August 10, 2023

Richard Beeken, Chief Executive is launching a series of ‘town hall’ sessions to discuss our new annual plan and how you can contribute to it.

The annual plan sets out what we need to deliver in this financial year to continue to improve and ultimately achieve our five-year strategy. We have agreed 14 objectives that need to be delivered by April 2024. In order to achieve this, we have identified six high impact objectives.

  1. To report all incidents and reduce those with moderate harm and above
  2. Increase patients rating their experience as good or very good for all touchpoints including Friends & Family Test (FFT) by area
  3. To reduce our flexible acute beds by 86 to safely move into the new hospital
  4. To increase elective activity from 94 per cent to 104 per cent of 2019/20 activity levels as per our production plan
  5. To reduce our bank and agency spend from £64.4 million to £45.6 million
  6. To develop 200 leaders in compassionate and inclusive leadership

In June’s Heartbeat (page 27), Richard gives an update on our progress against the above six objectives.

The ‘town hall’ sessions will run through July to September – do come along and find out how you can contribute to our plans. Session details are below:

  • 14 August, 3.30pm – 4.30pm, meeting room 2, 2nd floor, Lyndon Primary Care Centre, Sandwell, 10 people
  • 16 August, 2pm – 3pm, management block meeting room 1, City 14 people
  • 17 August, 10am – 11am, basement outside mess room, Sandwell, 15 people
  • 17 August, 3pm – 4pm, conference room, education centre, Sandwell, 30 people
  • 21 August, 10am – 11am, Benbow room, Hallam Building, Sandwell, 10 people
  • 23 August, 2pm – 3pm, Dining room, Postgraduate centre, City, 30 people
  • 24 August, 3pm – 4pm, Microsoft Teams
  • 30 August, 10.30am – 11.30am, D46 training room, Sheldon Block, City, 20 people
  • 31 August, 10.30am – 11.30am, room 20, 2nd floor, Trinity House, Sandwell, 8 people
  • 6 September, 2pm – 3pm, seminar room, Sandwell  A&E, 15 people
  • 21 September, 3pm – 4pm, Microsoft Teams
  • 22 September, 3pm – 4pm, BTC Meeting room 1, City, 30 people

If you wish to book on one of the in person sessions, please email swbh.comms@nhs.net stating your name and the session you would like to book on.