Two new Non-Executive Directors join the Board of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

TWO new associate non-executive directors are to join the board of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Dr Catherine Driscoll, who has lived in Worcester for more than 30 years, has substantial strategic transformation experience in the public sector, in health, social care and community services. She is currently working as a consultant having recently retired early as Director of Children’s Services for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council where she had responsibility for transforming challenged services into delivering new models of care and support.

Prior to that she held a number of senior roles in Worcestershire including Chief Executive of Worcestershire Children First /Director of Children’s Services at Worcestershire County Council, as well as previous posts of Director of Children, Families and Communities and Assistant Director of Adult Social Care.

Alex Moran, who lives in Worcestershire and has a number of very close ties to the Trust (including having been born at the Alexandra Hospital in Redditch), has a number of years’ experience working as a senior executive in healthcare both for a successful medical device distributor and for one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK.

He is currently Chief Executive Officer of ilarna, a Health Tech Home Care business which makes consistent, quality in-home care available to those who need it, when they need it. Prior to that he held a commercial leadership role at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust where he had direct responsibility for growing and managing their managed service portfolio in the UK and Internationally. Alex is also an active member of the NSPCC’s Business Board and is hugely proud of the charity’s work.

Russell Hardy, Chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, said: “Catherine and Alex join us at an exciting and challenging time. I have no doubt that the wide-ranging skills, knowledge, experience and commitment to public service they bring will make an invaluable contribution to helping us build on that progress for the benefit of our patients, our staff and our partners across the Foundation Group and in the local health and care system.

“As well as a continuing focus on the quality, safety and efficiency of the care we provide, they will have a key role to play in helping us ensure that our services are planned, developed and delivered in a way which best meets the needs and wishes of everyone in the diverse communities we serve, and every colleague in the diverse workforce that we employ.”

Catherine and Alex’s appointments by the Trust as Associate Non-Executive Directors take effect today (Thursday 1 August 2024) and run for 12 months.

Non-Executive and Associate Non-Executive Directors receive a basic remuneration currently set at £13,000 per year.