New chief executive of Princess Alexandra Hospital announced
Health / Mon 15th Jul 2024 at 10:08am
THE Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) has announced today (15 July) that Thom Lafferty will be their new chief executive. Thom joins in November (2024).
Thom is currently the deputy chief executive and director of strategy at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare, where he has been since 2022.
Hattie Llewelyn-Davies, chair of The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, said: “We are delighted to announce Thom as our new chief executive. He joins PAHT at an exciting time with our electronic health record being launched and the development of the new hospital.
“Thom comes with a strong record of setting and delivering strategic ambition, implementing improvement programmes and very definitely puts the care of patients and of people at the centre of all his work.”
Thom has worked across the NHS in a variety of roles, including over 12 years’ board experience.
Thom said: “This is undoubtedly an exciting time to join PAHT and I am looking forward to continuing to transform services and deliver truly modern, integrated and outstanding care for local people.
“At a system level, I am committed to ensuring that PAHT continues to play its role in actively helping to shape the future provision of health and care services to meet the needs of local people; working with partners across the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System.
“I would like to recognise the tremendous accomplishments, leadership and care shown by Lance McCarthy throughout his seven-year tenure as chief executive at PAHT and wish him the very best in his new role.”
Lance McCarthy, chief executive, leaves PAHT at the end of July and takes on the role of chief executive at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
David Forman
2024-07-15 11:06:00
Good luck with the new hospital project, because with the Labour government's programme of preventative healthcare and their Care Closer to the Home (CCH) project (recycled from 2006 NHS White Paper 'Our Health, Our Care, Our Say') we may be deemed not to need to a new one. As a research paper on CCH says: "The strategy was based on international experience that moving care from large hospitals to smaller local sites improves patient satisfaction and outcomes and is more cost effective. The scheme involves new and more integrated care pathways, polyclinics that provide a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services, and renewed investment in community hospitals." See research at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2043467/
David Forman
2024-07-15 12:20:34
The 2006 White Paper quoted in my last comment explains in paragraph 6.3 on page 129: "Care is delivered closer to home in many other countries. For instance, Germany has virtually no outpatient appointments carried out in hospitals. We have looked at the lessons we can learn from international best practice: patient pathways that put more focus on providing care closer to home can improve outcomes for people, be more cost-effective, and improve people’s satisfaction. Yet at present we spend 27 per cent of our budget on primary care services, compared with an OECD average of 33 per cent."
David Forman
2024-07-15 12:44:25
Our latest Labour government is taking its inspiration on health from Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change. In a report last July Tony Blair said in his Foreword about removing care from NHS hospitals: "They (Integrated Care Boards) need multi-year budgets to be able to keep efficiency savings for redeployment in better services, to use private providers freely. There should be active encouragement of new providers to enter the system, particularly for high-volume, low-complexity services, many of which can now be provided digitally. Finally, a lot of basic health care can be delivered through pharmacies, by employers, in gyms and in supermarkets making care easier to access."
James
2024-07-16 00:04:25
He will need to work a miracle, the hospital is not performing well at all , so many issue's, don't think we are getting any new hospital to be truthful.
Mark Gough
2024-07-17 15:30:17
And there in a nutshell of David Foreman's posts are what I have said for years. No Government in history did more to privatise the NHS than the last Bliar/Brune Labour one. Considering the NHS is still saddled with their PFI debts, where is the money coming from. NICE has done a great job of wrecking the British Pharmaceutical Industry and stopping the use of better newer drugs, what is it going to do with diagnostic testing. With this Government obsessing about a Green Agenda, and the Physicians Quango putting out ideas like reduced diagnoses, fewer blood tests and prescriptions whilst doing meetings remotely - not to mention walking, cycling or car pooling if they bother to show up, I'm sure our NHS has a lovely Socialist Future! I wish Thom well, and hope he's at least half as good as Lance. We need him to be!
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