Who's who
NHS Worcestershire (PCT)
About: NHS Worcestershire (Primary Care Trust) is the main commissioner of health services across the county and holds the purse strings for the county's healthcare budget of approximately £900million.
Who's Who:
Eamonn Kelly
Chief Executive
Dr Richard Harling
Joint Director of Public Health
Dr Bryan Smith
NHS Worcestershire
Non-Executive Director
and Chair of JSR Steering Group
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
About: WAHT provides hospital-based services from three main sites - the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre, and Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester. Each year WAHT carries out over 95,000 planned and emergency operations, sees more than 130,000 A&E attendances and around 500,000 outpatient appointments, including appointments with consultants or specialist nurses, diagnostic tests such as X-rays and minor surgical procedures. WAHT employs more than 5,500 people and has an annual turnover of more than £320 million.
Who's Who:
Penny Venables
Chief Executive
Chris Fearns
JSR Project Director
and Director of Strategic Development
Dr Charles Ashton
Medical Director
Worcestershire Health and Care Trust
About: Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (WHCT) provides community health services (including community hospitals, district nursing, therapies, children's services and minor injuries units) and mental health services (including learning disabilities, inpatient and community mental health services, substance misuse, early intervention and recovery) across the county of Worcestershire. Worcestershire Health and Care Trust has an annual budget of £167m and employs 4500 staff.
Who's Who:
Sarah Dugan
Chief Executive
Clinical involvement
Worcestershire Clinical Senate
About: The Clinical Senate is made up of county GPs, and clinicians from Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcestershire Health and Care Trust and social services. They provide a forum where collective knowledge on clinical issues can be shared and provided to the Boards of NHS organisations within Worcestershire. The Clinical Senate ensures clinical participation in policy setting and clinical leadership for strategic decisions about the configuration of health services. The Clinical Senate is responsible for making the clinical recommendations on the Joint Services Review (JSR) to the JSR Steering Group.
Who's Who:
Clinical Commissioning Groups x3
About: Worcestershire's three Clinical Commissioning Groups (Redditch and Bromsgrove, South Worcestershire and Wyre Forest) will share the responsibility with NHS Worcestershire for commissioning hospital and community health services for the Worcestershire population. By April 2013, they will be a statutory organisation in their own right.
Who's Who:
Dr Carl Ellson
Chair of South Worcestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
Dr Simon Gates
Chair of Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Group
Dr Jonathan Wells
Chair of Redditch and Bromsgrove Clinical Commissioning Group
