NHS
The National Health Service employs more staff than any other organisation in Europe. Being funded by the public purse, and reaching out to everyone in the country, it has a very high public profile.
Medical and surgical advances need to be rolled out across the NHS; health service users, like all consumers, are demanding higher standards of service e.g. shorter waiting times; the hospital estates are ageing and many buildings need replacement or upgrading. Successive governments have the difficult job of trying to balance these demands, within tight budgets.
So, change management is always to the fore in the NHS – whether it is a PFI rebuild, franchising management teams, restructuring and mergers, implementing new models of service delivery, achieving Foundation Trust status or establishing partnerships with private health services organisations. Yet such changes must take place without disruption to the 24/7 service.
If things have already gone wrong, turnaround and financial recovery may be the main short term priority. Such skills are rare in the NHS, but interim executives with in-depth restructuring experience are a readily available solution.
AshtonPenney interim executives not only fill unexpected gaps in a senior executive team but also help NHS organisations change and improve. The AshtonPenney
Interim NHS Practice run by Andrew Hunt has been established to provide all the likely interim senior management requirements from finance to human resources to IT to strategic planning.