Changes to our hospital leadership model

To ensure that we are best placed to make the quality improvements needed to consistently provide great care for our patients, a new LUHFT hospital leadership model has been introduced, with four new hospital leadership teams now in place.

Each of the teams, which include a clinical, operational and nursing lead, will cover a different site - Aintree, Broadgreen, the Royal (which includes the Dental Hospital and St Paul's Eye Unit) and Liverpool Clinical Laboratories - enabling stronger situational awareness and more responsive decision making.

Chief Executive, Sir David Dalton, said: “The new structure has a particular focus on patient safety, care reliability, patient flow and clinical effectiveness. The new hospital leadership teams will

build stronger relationships with the people who are working on each site, dealing with the day-to-day issues. This will allow for quicker decision making, closer to where care is delivered.

“These changes will not impact upon our plans to integrate services across the Trust. We want to strengthen and build the links between our sites and create single shared services. To support this, the site teams will work with our new clinical reliability groups to strengthen the links between our sites and focus on delivering our services to the highest standards of care.”

£1 million is being transferred from the executive level to support these new hospital leadership teams. Find greater detail about the new hospital leadership on the intranet.