Divisional structure and departments

Key members of staff reporting direct to the chief executive, including the executive directors of the trust, each have a portfolio of responsibilities:

David French, chief executive officer

• NHS FT Accounting Officer

Ian Howard, chief financial officer

• Strategic and operational finance
• Financial strategy, planning and modelling
• Capital planning and prioritisation
• Financial reporting and external audit
• Cash and treasury management
• Commissioning and contracting
• Procurement
• Commercial
• Development
• Payroll
• Counter fraud
• Internal audit
• Wholly-owned subsidiary oversight
• CIP management and delivery 
• Productivity improvement
• National and local insight and intelligence
• Annual planning
• Business cases
• Strategic and annual demand and capacity planning

Paul Grundy, chief medical officer 

• Professional leadership of medical staff
• Clinical strategy
• Outcomes and clinical effectiveness
• Health promotion
• Public health
• Realistic medicine
• Patient consent
• Clinical networks
• Innovation, research and development
• Responsible officer for revalidation
• Medical education

Gail Byrne, chief nursing officer 

• Professional leadership of nurses, AHPs, and wider healthcare professionals
• Integrated governance 
• Risk management
• Infection prevention and control
• Patient safety and experience
• Culture
• Quality improvement and Always Improving strategy
• Safeguarding
• Voluntary services
• Freedom to speak up
• PALS and complaints
• Corporate affairs
• Legal services
• Claims and insurance
• Policy management
• Data protection and FOI
• Caldicott Guardian
• Health and Safety 
• Maternity Safety Champion

Joe Teape, chief operating officer 

• Operational management
• Performance delivery
• Performance reporting and management
• Business change / service improvement
• Estates, Facilities and Capital Development
• Business continuity and emergency planning
• Complex Discharge Team
• Site management and security
• Digital including digital strategy and business
• Intelligence

Steve Harris, chief people officer 

• HR management
• Recruitment, retention and reward
• Bank and agency
• Employee relations
• Organisational development
• Staff engagement
• Education, training and, development
• People strategy
• Workforce planning and information
• Leadership
• Staff health and wellbeing (inc Occupational Health)
• Communications
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Charitable funds

Martin De Sousa, director of strategy and partnerships

• UHS corporate strategy and strategic planning
• Clinical programme: integrated network care and collaboration (with CMO)
• Research and development
• Partnerships

Divisions A to D

The Trust’s four divisions report to the chief operating officer.

Division A

Surgery, critical care, ophthalmology and theatres and anaesthetics

Division B

Cancer care, emergency medicine, helicopter emergency medical services, medicine and medicine for older people (MOP), pathology and specialist medicine

Division C

Women and newborn, maternity, child health and clinical support

Division D

Cardiovascular and thoracic, neurosciences, trauma and orthopaedics and radiology