NEWS
Changes at the top of NHS Alliance
Rick Stern (pictured below) is taking over as chief executive of the NHS Alliance from April 16, after Michael Sobanja decided to step down after 14 years at the helm.
He will stay on part-time as policy director, while Stern will work alongside Julie Wood (pictured right), the organisation’s national director of clinical commissioning, as part of a new leadership team reporting to chairman Dr Michael Dixon.
Dixon said: “Mike Sobanja has been a truly brilliant chief executive. Having co-founded the NHS Alliance 14 years ago, he has tirelessly led the organisation with a calm and skilful brain. He has not only been immense fun to work with, but also clearly demonstrated why he is regarded as one of the best
Contracts, awards and appointments
- Nuffield Health, the country’s biggest health charity, which operates private hospitals, health clinics, fitness and wellbeing centres and diagnostic units, has awarded BT a three-year contract for BT Cloud Contact to run its call centres and contact systems.
senior managers of his time.
“Mike will be a difficult act to follow, which is why we recruited the very best from those who have proved themselves within and outside the NHS Alliance.”
Specialist AKU status for Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has been named as the new national centre for the treatment of alkaptonuria (AKU), a rare genetic disorder also known as ‘black bone disease’.
The National Reference Service for the disease will now be based at the trust following a decision
by the Department of Health. The successful bid was based on collaboration between the AKU Society and the University of Liverpool.
The centre will focus on clinical and scientific developments into the disease, monitor patients’ conditions and treatment, and evaluate emerging therapies.
Dr Lakshminarayan Ranganath, consultant physician at the Royal and a co-founder of the AKU Society, said: “We are tremendously thrilled
with this
news. It marks the culmination of years of campaigning to raise awareness of this disease and help create a service which can focus exclusively on alkaptonuria.”
NHS bodies sign up to OS mapping agreement
More than two thirds of PCTs, 12 ambulance trusts and 69 hospital trusts in England and Wales are using maps to plan services more effectively, via the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) with Ordnance Survey.
More than 2,000 organisations of all sizes across the public sector are now part of the scheme, which launched a year ago.
The scheme is especially useful for collaborative working between different agencies. In Bristol, the local authority and PCT are working together to improve local drug and alcohol treatment services, mapping the
location of centres to where the people who use the services live.
In Hull, teenage pregnancies
have reduced significantly since the local council started using digital maps to plan its contraception and sexual health advice services.
In Birmingham, the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust is using maps to monitor the efficiency and quality of services.
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James Brayshaw, Ordnance Survey’s customer director, said: “What makes the PSMA unique is its ability to enable collaborative working underpinned by data sharing between organisations in the public sector and the ease with which the information can be visualised and analysed in a precise way. This is a centrally funded agreement, which is delivering results through increased use of location data enabling vital improvements to public sector services. We continue to encourage public sector organisations that haven’t taken advantage of membership to sign up today and start reaping the benefits.”
- King’s College Hospital has appointed Faith Boardman and Sue Slipman OBE as new non- executive directors of the trust. Professor Sir George Alberti, King’s
chairman, said they
would be “invaluable additions” to the board.
- Cambridge University Hospitals
has launched a
search for a new chief executive after Dr Gareth Goodier stepped down after nearly six years. He will leave in June 2012 to join Melbourne Health in Australia.
- Ilkeston Community
Hospital in Derbyshire has installed a 50kW array of 212 Sanyo solar panels with help from Eco Environments. The £166,500 project will help save 24 tonnes of carbon a year and save £5,500 a year on electricity bills, rising annually.
- Adrian Flowerday, managing director of Docobo Ltd, has been awarded an Outstanding Achievement Award by Intellect in recognition of his work as chairman of the Telehealth group.
- Taunton & Somerset and Yeovil District Hospital NHS FTs have signed a contract with Integrated Pathology Partnerships (iPP) to form a new pathology services joint venture, meaning lab services will be delivered jointly while clinical interpretation and advice will continue to be provided by the trusts’ medical staff.
- Dr Craig Gradden is joining Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust’s board of directors as medical director.
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