improvement journey LUHFT to improvement

sharing the same vision and values. Our Board and Executive Team will continue to have oversight, making decisions that impact LUHFT at a Trust level, but Hospital Management Board will have devolved control of aspects that enable their effective running and ability to respond, such as workforce, finances and quality and safety.”

The Executive Managing Directors of each Hospital Management Board will be voting members of the Trust Board, which maintains the connectivity between the Board and each site. These changes will ensure that we have a clear vision of where we want to be, and the leadership capacity, capability and appropriate governance to get us there.

Chair Non-Executive Directors

Executive Officer

Chief People Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Nursing Officer

Director of Corporate Affairs/ Company Secretary

Executive Managing Director (site)

Meet our new Executive Managing Directors

Natalie

Hudson,

Executive Managing Director for the Royal Liverpool

Natalie has a wealth of knowledge and experience in surgery, theatres, critical care and emergency medicine. She has also led on several large-scale initiatives to improve patient experience and flow. Natalie said: “I’m excited to be working alongside your leadership teams across the Royal as well as with colleagues throughout the Trust. I know there will be challenges ahead and I’ll be joining you on this improvement journey, to help make LUHFT a great place to work."

Executive Managing Director - Aintree

Executive Managing Director - Royal

Director of Nursing Director of Finance Director of People

Dr Peter Turkington, Executive Managing Director

For

Aintree Hospital

Peter will start with us in early May from Salford Care Organisation, which is part of The Northern Care Alliance, where he has been the Chief Officer and Medical Director since 2019. Peter said: “I am looking forward to beginning my new role at Aintree Hospital as the site undergoes several key developments. This exciting opportunity presents a new challenge as the Trust continues on its improvement journey and I’m committed to working with colleagues to realise the potential of LUHFT for the benefit of our patients.”

Robert Forster, Deputy Chief Executive, will have executive responsibility over LCL and Heather Barnett, Chief People Officer, will be responsible for Broadgreen.

Liverpool Clinical Laboratories (LCL) at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital site has fully relocated to the Clinical Support Services Building (CSSB), with some staff also based in the Linda McCartney Centre.

We spoke to Awtad Hassan, Medical Laboratory Assistant working in clinical trials at LCL to find out more about the move. Awtad joined LCL a year ago, so has experienced working in both the Duncan building and CSSB. We wanted to know how the move has improved things for patients and staff.

“Since moving to CSSB we now have updated analysers and pre analytics in Biochemistry. We use the Roche Cobas 8100 in the CSSB which is more efficient and requires less human intervention in comparison to the MPA (Modular Pre analytics) which was used in the Duncan building.

All the samples loaded are sent to the suitable analysers for testing, and samples that have no outstanding tests are sent automatically to the fridge. If the sample needs to be retrieved it can automatically be done so, rather than manually, which was the case in the Duncan.

Previously in the Duncan building we had three analysers whereas in the CSSB there is four, which allows for more sample testing, therefore increasing our turnaround time for patient results.

With the advanced technology in the new lab, there has been a big change in the turnaround times which are shorter and more efficient. Having all departments working close together allows for better communication/processing, overall providing a quality service for effective patient care.”

Awtad Hassan, taking one sample and dividing into three, then archiving