New hospital - taking the lead

Following an outstanding response from clinicians and operational leaders from across PAHT, the new workstream leads are now in place. These roles are critical to the successful completion of the outline business case for the new hospital with a strong focus on models of care at the forefront.

The workstream leads are now working at pace to make sure that everyone who will be delivering the care are involved and hosting a number of virtual workshops. The team share with us a brief insight into their inspiration and reasons for getting involved and their ambitions for providing outstanding care in a new hospital.

Dr Sri Redla - medical lead, cancer and diagnostics workstream

This is an exciting, once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of the team designing our new hospital for our staff and our patients. We should ALL actively engage in this process…to come up with an innovative, one of a kind, future-proof healthcare facility in line with the NHS Long Term Plan.

Garry Court – nursing lead, cancer and diagnostics workstream

It is really important that there is a clinical nursing voice within each of the work streams to act as patient advocate when designing the fabric of the building to ensure ease of access, and to ensure that the practicalities of delivering nursing care, changes in treatment pathways, and how patient flows will work in the future are both safe and effective.

Mr Dennis Kosuge – medical lead, elective workstream

The new hospital programme is the perfect opportunity to introduce major changes…all this can have a big impact on improving the quality of care, patient experience, productivity and efficiency for PAHT and our patients. As such, it is so vital that these important decisions are made by well-qualified teams, representative of the whole of PAHT. I would like to be part of that legacy.

June Barnard - nursing lead, elective workstream

First and foremost is my desire to deliver outstanding services and care provision to all who use the services of the trust. This is my local hospital, I have both a personal and professional vested interest in it. The opportunity to be part of a team building a new hospital with new pathways and ways of working is potentially once in a career and very

exciting.

Dr Monica Bose – medical lead, discharge workstream

Having worked at PAHT both as a junior doctor and for six years now as a consultant, I am really excited to be involved in this key piece of work to ensure that we have a new hospital within a new healthcare system for the patients of West Essex and East and North Herts that fits their needs, not just for 2025 but for 2075 too.

Katie Silk – nursing lead, discharge workstream

Making sure our patients have the very best care extends beyond their time in hospital. It is vital that as we discuss pathways for our patients that we put in place the links and support needed for their onward journey from hospital. It is such a great opportunity to get this right and to put in place a more connected plan for their care.

Dr Jon Keene – medical lead, family women and children’s workstream

Doctors all want to make a difference to their patients’ health and care. What better way to help achieve this than being involved in helping to develop the system that delivers that care? This is an amazing opportunity to ensure the model and layout of care we deliver puts our patients’ journey at the heart of everything we do.

Jacqui Featherstone – nursing lead, family, women and children’s workstream

This is such an opportunity for us to be at the very beginning of the journey of the new hospital; to talk to others around the country about what works and what hasn’t for them, in building a new hospital and learn from them but also to be unique in other aspects.

Claire Jakes – nursing lead, family, women and children’s workstream

I believe every baby, child, young person, woman and their family should receive the best patient experience and journey possible. I am passionate about involving the community who use our services in helping design the new hospital to ensure the space works for all ages and reduces the anxiety in attending the hospital.

Dr Ahmed Soliman – medical lead, urgent care workstream

I am confident that bringing colleagues at PAHT together to work on the new hospital programme will foster innovation and improvement across the board, and, importantly, enable everyone to realise their full potential and make PAHT the healthcare provider as well as the employer of choice for many years

to come.

Joanne Ward – nursing lead, urgent care workstream

Putting the patient firmly at the heart of everything we do when developing the pathways and systems in the new hospital, including the fundamental development of new ways of partnership and the use of a digital electronic patient record (EPR) solution that enables PAHT and the wider system to share accurate medical records is key. This will streamline care and also reduce duplication of tasks and free up time for our clinicians to care for patients.

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