30.08.18
Dame Julie Moore joins board at troubled special-measures trust
Dame Julie Moore will join the director’s board at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust as an associate non-executive director in October.
Dame Julie will step down from her role as chief executive from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT this week, where she brought together two of the largest NHS hospital trusts— University Hospitals Birmingham NHS FT and Heart of England NHS FT— to create the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, employing more than 20,000 staff.
Chairman of Worcestershire NHS Trust Sir David Nicholson announced the appointment of Dame Julie to the trust today. He said: “I have known and admired Dame Julie for much of her incredibly successful career in the NHS. Her retirement from UHB was the perfect opportunity for us to invite her to bring to our trust her skills, knowledge, experience and above all her passion for making sure patients get the best possible care.
“She joins us at an exciting and challenging time and I know she will make a huge contribution to our board.”
Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust runs Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
In June this year, the chief inspector of hospitals at the CQC Professor Ted Baker said more needed to be done with the progress of the trust after it was put into special measures in 2015.
The trust has been struggling with improvements for a while now. In June last year, the CQC decided to keep the provider in special measures. Two months later, inspectors found that changes to care had not been made since their last visit.
Dame Julie said: “This is a wonderful opportunity for me to take on a new role in the NHS. My priority as always will be on supporting and encouraging staff to provide patient care which is of the very highest quality.
“I am looking forward to working with David and the rest of the trust board, and meeting my new colleagues at the Alexandra, Kidderminster and Worcestershire Royal.”
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