NHS London makes appointment to first set of merged PCTs
NHS London has finalised the new management structure for the first of its merged primary care trusts.
The eight PCTs in North West London are being placed under a single management framework headed up by the strategic health authority’s deputy chief executive Anne Rainsberry.
Sitting under Ms Rainsberry will be three cluster chief executives – taken from senior managers at the eight merged PCTs. The final appointment to those cluster positions was made last night.
A cluster made up of Brent and Harrow PCTs will be led by Mark Easton, previously chief executive of Brent.
The inner North West cluster – made up of Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster PCTs – will be led by Sarah Whiting, currently managing director of Hammersmith and Fulham – the only non chief executive to be appointed to a cluster chief executive role.
The outer North West cluster – made up of Ealing, Hillingdon and Hounslow PCTs – will be led by Robert Creighton, currently chief executive of Ealing PCT.
HSJ understands the chief executives of other North West London PCTs who have not secured positions as cluster leads could be offered redeployment although some may seek redundancy.
Although the original eight PCTs will continue to be represented by eight boards, the management teams are being merged into three.
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Anonymous | 22-Oct-2010 4:47 pm
What is brutal about the NHSL approach is that the rest of the country has 4 years to make these savings and therefore opportunity to transfer to successor bodies but the staff in London are just facing a cull. The fact the SHA was the biggest overspender on management consultancy means higher savings targets
So really the SHA should be bearing the brunt. Reducing staff by half over a matter of months without proper planning creates significant risk of functions just dropping bewteen gaps
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Anonymous | 22-Oct-2010 4:51 pm
What I would like to see are the plans for the SHA to reduce their own management costs by half over the next 3 months?
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Anonymous | 25-Oct-2010 5:31 pm
They are only doing now what everyone else had to do 4 years ago. I agree an SHA savings plan would be nice to see. Also what is happening with the directors who are unsuccessful? In my PCT 4 of the 5 who who are 'at risk' have been found jobs at the SHA!!!!! I bet they wont take as much care of the rest of us.
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Anonymous | 28-Oct-2010 5:56 pm
. . .and still the SHA and sectors continue to use consultancies like Mckinsey . . .
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Anonymous | 29-Oct-2010 8:19 am
and no one is listening, trying to keep the morale up when things are being collapsed and the good ones ares starting to leave, or be poached, the senior ones have their contacts and they're ok jack .
lets be honest although its sad about us and our jobs we're not that badly off compared to many of our populations and while we're stripping the bed sheets ( Christmas future and the women stripping Ebernezas death bed does come to mind) it will be our communities that are ultimately impacted by all this- and not in a good way
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