These are the functions that are considered as corporate services within the programme:
- Strategy and Business Planning
- Corporate Affairs
- Corporate Operations and Performance
- People, Culture and OD
- Finance
- Corporate Medical Teams
- Quality Governance and Risk
- Corporate Nursing
- Communications and Marketing
- Estates and Facilities
- Medical Education
- Legal Services
- Innovation
- Transformation and Improvement
- Research
- Data and Digital
- Commercial and Procurement
- Quality Improvement
- Within these services we are already carrying high numbers of vacancies across each of our organisations, which we are currently unable to fill
- By creating new service models we can make these services more resilient for the future, whilst improving our ability to best support our hospitals, as well as adopting best practice approaches collectively
- The result should be that vacancy freezes are no longer required, and services are designed to be delivered within an agreed budget that fits within an agreed, sustainable financial envelope
- It will enable us to shape entirely new service for the future, drawing on the skills and expertise of our people for more varied and effective roles and services at scale across the group
- We know from recent feedback that staff would like more detail about what establishing a shared corporate services model will entail, and we understand that the delay in providing more information has been frustrating at times.
