Organisational updateHappy New Year and welcome to the first edition of the Medical Team newsletter.

Having met with a number of you over the last few months I’m keen to start the New Year with some newly established methods of engagement and communications to ensure that the Executive Team and I are able to listen and respond to your ideas, suggestions, challenges and concerns, and also share with you plans and updates from the Trust and the Accountable Care System (ACS), which is now moving at pace.

As an important group of staff, who are integral to the success of the Trust and will be integral in the success of the

ACS, this bulletin will serve as a regular Trust update, delivered to you by the Executive Team. I will also take the opportunity to inform you of any key Trust developments.

I know you are all very busy and so not to unnecessarily add to your emails I anticipate the bulletins will be shared no more than monthly (we will also include them on our website here).

In addition to the new bulletin I will be setting up lunchtime consultant meetings. These will be small meetings (of no more than six of us at one time) to provide the opportunity for you to raise suggestions, challenges and concerns with me in the presence of just a few of your colleagues.

These meetings have been specifically scheduled over lunchtime, to accommodate for busy schedules. Simple refreshments (a drink and a sandwich) will be provided. Below is a list of dates and times across Doncaster and Bassetlaw. Please can you confirm your attendance at your meeting of choice with Angela O’Mara by calling 644153 or emailing a.o’mara@nhs.net

If there is high demand I will endeavour to set up more at convenient times.

Thank you

I’d like to thank you all for your hard work over Christmas and New Year and for your continued dedication to providing care for our patients through this busy period we have been/ are currently experiencing.

Although the immediate pressures are felt in our Emergency Departments, we know that as patients move through our wards and departments, every area will come under pressure.

We will continue with reduced elective throughout this week and review on a week by week basis to try and manage the pressure on our services.

!! ACS update

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals

NHS Foundation Trust Medical TeamYour DBTH newsletter

January 2018

Decision made on the future of hyper acute stroke services

The joint committee of clinical commissioning groups met in November 2017 and made the unanimous decision to change the way we provide hyper acute stroke services across the region. The decision comes after almost three years of detailed work, developing proposals, a 16 week public consultation and analysis of various performance and financial data available.

Dr Peter Anderton, stroke consultant and clinical lead for hyper acute stroke services, led the presentation to the committee supported by transformation programme lead Marianna Hargreaves and associate communications director Helen Stevens.

Hyper acute stroke care will, in the future, no longer be provided in Barnsley or Rotherham Hospitals with patients from the region being taken for their initial assessments and treatments in Doncaster and Sheffield - or Pinderfields Hospital for some Barnsley patients. No changes were made to the hyper acute stroke service in Chesterfield. The meeting was live-streamed and is available to view on the ACS website.

Update on the review of hospital services

An event for the public was held in December to discuss the latest developments of the hospital services review. Around 70 people attended, including foundation trust governors, patient group representatives and members of the public. Presentations were given and conversations had around each of the five services being reviewed as well as an overview of the ACS and updates on the work of primary care and mental health.

Now that all the clinical working groups have taken place for each service, it was possible to share the latest conversations and a number of potential solutions and ways forward were discussed with those who attended.

Feedback so far has been very positive with audience members saying they valued being able to share their views and ask questions of the clinical leads, many of whom were representatives from DBTH.

The ACS continues to ask for staff and public input via the survey which can be found here and they will be holding information events within the Trust. When a date is confirmed we will share that with you.

The review team are now in the process of analysing all information from the clinical working groups before the groups will meet for a fourth time in the new year to develop their thoughts on how we can work differently to improve services.

An update from the Cancer Alliance

In October NHS England’s National Cancer Programme released their Progress Report (2016-17). The report highlighted how Cancer Alliances are improving regional coordination of care; as well as pointing to the importance of the Recovery Package for people living with and beyond cancer.

The National Cancer Programme goes beyond measuring how long people live after cancer, towards how well people live after cancer. They will look at the long term impact on people’s finances, ability to maintain social networks and their psychological well-being.

This reflects an encouraging national commitment to the Recovery Package.

In our own region, we continue to work towards a 2020 deadline to ensure everyone diagnosed with breast, bowel or prostate cancer regionally can access this level of support.

Moira HardyActing Director of Nursing

Midwifery & Quality

David PurdueDeputy Chief Executive &

Chief Operating Officer

Sewa SinghMedical Director

Alan Armstrong Non-executive Director

(Senior Independent Director)

Linn PhippsNon-executive Director

Neil RhodesNon-executive Director

Vacant Non-executive Director

John ParkerNon-executive Director

Karen BarnardDirector of People and

Organisational Development

Philippe SernaNon-executive Director

Jonathan SargeantDirector of Finance

Board of Directors at the Trust

Richard ParkerChief Executive

Suzy Brain EnglandChair of the Board

Executive Directors

Non-Executive Directors

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Other Directors who attend Board

Marie PurdueDirector of Strategy and

Transformation

Kirsty Edmondson JonesDirector of Estates

and Facilities

Simon MarshChief Information Officer

Ruth AllartonAssociate

Non-executive Director

Care Groups at the Trust

Children &Families

Diagnostic & Pharmacy

Emergency

MSK& Frailty

SpecialityService

Surgical

Care Group Director Assistant Care Group Director (ACGD) Head of

Midwifery MatronsGeneralManager Business Manager

HR BusinessPartner

Eki Emovon

Clinical Governance Lead

Head of PaediatricNursing

ChrisBeattie

SharonDickinson

AndreaBlissPaediatrics

SharonPickardMaternity &Gynaecology

Lauren Ackroyd

Care Group Director

AndrewBarker

Ken AgwuhPathology

Assistant Care Group Directors

JasSawhney

Clinical Governance Lead

JulieKay

Matrons Business Manager

NicolaKirkpatrick

HR BusinessPartner

Care Group Director

NickMallaband

Anurag AgrawalMedicine

Assistant Care Group DirectorsClinical Governance Lead

HelenMeynell

Head of Nursing and Quality

KateCarville

Matrons

JaquelineCrossland

MariaHardacre

SamSidwell

General Manager

Deputy General Manager

Care Group Director

ThrinathKumar

Assistant Care Group Directors

GirishVashistaTrauma& Orthopaedics

AndrewOatesFrailtyPathway

Clinical Governance Lead

TamerTadross

Head of Nursing and Quality

CindyStorer

Head of Therapies

SuzanneBolam

Matrons

AnnaHegarty

SarahStovin

MandyEspey

General Manager

ChristineWhite

HR BusinessPartner

Care Group Director

GillianPayne

Assistant Care Group Directors

Shivani DewanCardiovascularRisk

Vivek KumarCancer Services

Care Group Director Assistant Care Group Directors

Clinical Governance Lead

DuncanDrury

LesleyBarnett

Head of Nursing and Quality Matrons

RubyFaruqi

AliceWaweru

JoannePack

SarahBayliss

General Manager Business Manager

Janette Bailey

HR BusinessPartner

JochenSeidel

MichelleDentonTheatre Pathways

Aftab AhmedDay Surgery Services

Srinivasan BalchandraAmbulatoryOutpatientand Diagnostics

Clinical Governance Lead

RichardMoore

Head of Nursing and Quality

KirstyClarke

Matrons

RachelGibson

LeslieMarshall

NickiSherburn

KarenMcAlpine

General Manager Business Manager

LauraFawcett

HR BusinessPartner

RebeccaWright

Lesley Hammond

VictoriaRedhall

Anuja NatarajanPaediatrics

AlisonSchofield

Business Manager

Karen MinshullRehab Manager

MichelleThorpe

Richard JamesActing

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General ManagerHead of Service

Myra KnightMedicalImaging

PaulGravil Pathology

HazimGergis

JayneLangInterim

Head of Servicefor ED

AmjidMohammed

JulieThornton

JoDixon

HR BusinessPartner

JayneLang

JulieButler

Rachel Bulman

TullyMonk

Education Lead

GailEden

Education Lead

CarolOrr

Education Lead

AimiDillon

Education Lead

Tsitsi Muchayingeyi

Education Lead

Glenn Newton

Deputy General Manager

HelenBurroughs

Fiona Littlewood

Board of Governors at the TrustStaff Governors

Dr Vivek Desai Roy Underwood

Public Governors - DoncasterAndrina HardcastleHazel Brand

Michael Addenbrooke Eddie DobbsAnwar Choudhry David Northwood Nicola Hogarth

Susan Overend Sharon Cook

Lynn Goy Lorraine RobinsonKarl Bower

David Cuckson

Public Governors - Rest of England and Wales

Partner Governors

Prof Robert Coleman Griff JonesRuth Allarton Dr Victoria McGregor-Riley

Cllr Susan Shaw

Philip Beavers Shelley Brailsford

Dr Mark Iain Bright Lynne Logan George Webb Maureen YoungBev Marshall Brenda Maslen

Liz Staveley - Churton

Anthony Fitzgerald

Clive TattleyAinsley MacDonnell Rupert Suckling

Public Governors - Bassetlaw

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Duncan Carratt

Peter Abell

! Organisational structure

Richard ParkerChief Executive

Lunchtime meetings

• 24 January, DRI, 12.30 to 2pm• 8 February, BH, 1.30 to 3pm• 23 February, DRI, 12 to 1.30pm • 8 March, DH, 12 to 1.30pm• 28 March, DRI, 12.30 to 2pm• 12 April, BH, 1 to 2.30pm• 24 April, DRI, 12 to 1.30pm• 9 May, BH, 1 to 2.30pm• 25 May, DRI, 12 to 1.30pm• 11 June, BH, 11.30 to 1pm • 18 June, DRI, 12.30 to 2pm