NHS Providers has made two new appointments to its leadership team in the form of Caroline Harrison and Isabel Lawicka.
Harrison comes in as director of corporate services and finance, while Lawicka took up her director of policy and strategy post last week.
The latter replaces Miriam Deakin who joins Jenny Reindorp in the joint role of director of development and engagement — Reindorp was director of programmes.
Welcoming the appointments in a joint statement, NHS Providers’ CEO, Sir Julian Hartley, and deputy CEO, Saffron Cordery, said: “These leadership changes will help ensure that NHS Providers continues to be an outstanding membership organisation for NHS trusts and foundation trusts.
“Our members face unprecedented challenges and our role in supporting and championing their work has never been more important.
“We are confident that this refreshed leadership team has the skills, experience and the commitment to take our organisation – and the work it does for our members – from strength to strength.”
In her previous role at NHS Providers heading up policy and analysis, Lawicka spoke at a National Health Executive (NHE) event on supporting staff throughout the pandemic.
Speaking in the summer of 2021, she reflected on three things:
- what wellbeing initiatives staff had found useful in the first year of the pandemic;
- what had been learned about the greater flexibility and innovation introduced into working practices; and
- what needed to happen next.
On the last point, she said: “The recovery challenge is, I think, as important as the Covid challenge — it will be more sustained and will require the same innovative thinking; the same stamina to get us through to the other side.
“A focus on staff wellbeing and recovery must be at the centre of this.”
The waiting list was around the 5.5 million mark during this time — it is now at more than 7.5 million, with 6.3 million individual patients in England.
Learn how the pandemic impacted primary care by listening to NHE’s podcast with Trish Greenhalgh of the University of Oxford.
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