The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital at Colney
Ambulance outside the Accident and Emergency department.
Ambulance Watch: Interim chief executive set for extended stay, MPs told
By Adam Gretton, Health correspondent
Thursday, March 14, 2013
5:26 PM
The interim chief executive of the East of England Ambulance Service is set to stay at the helm for at least the next six months, local MPs were told today.
Nine East Anglian MPs met with bosses of the under-fire NHS trust today in Westminster to quiz its chairman, deputy chairman, chief executive, and operations director over ongoing performance issues and slow response times.
MPs said they were pleased to hear that former NHS Norfolk head Andrew Morgan was set to continue his work within the ambulance trust as interim chief executive for at least the next six months.
However, they called on the board to reflect on their roles ahead of the publication of a Care Quality Commission report, due next week, following an unannounced inspection of the East of England Ambulance Service.
Suffolk Coastal MP Therese Coffey, who chaired today’s meeting, said it was good news that the trust was working with other ambulance services to improve after it emerged that Anthony Marsh, the CEO of the West Midlands Ambulance Service, had been parachuted in to carry out an independent review.
“I welcome the decision made to bring in Anthony Marsh and learning from other areas, though I wonder why this hasn’t happened before. The new chief executive is working hard to restore morale of front-line staff and add more ambulances. I am glad the board are supporting this.”
“Members of the board need to reflect on their own accountability for where we are after what has happened in the last few years. A sense of urgency with clear timelines are still needed. A culture of hitting regional targets but not focusing on each county feels like hitting the target and missing the point,” she said.
See Friday’s EDP for more.
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6 comments
Dave01; Sorry but I may not be as educated as you but yes it should have red ( oh there I go AGAIN ). A & E. !!
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loco
Friday, March 15, 2013
Blinkin eck, extented stay to 6 months. An extended stay in the real world is 4 days. What planet are these people on? Sort it in two days or get fired! oh I guess they will go off sick for the next 20 years with stress for having to do something, early retirement is not so bad hey.. I knew someone in SCC that did that because he took 6 weeks to do an afternoons work .. stress, I'm out ha ha..30+ years sick leave, they play the game to the game players.. I'ld do it too, but I'ld get so bored being a lazy *****.. yuk.. Can we have real people in public services please? and that particularly includes councillors.. All the stories are so predictable and it's all done to the same old butter recipe, laziness,. Even the ex USSR had better standards than we have, they would not tolerate the leftie laziness that pervades all labourite or so called 'sociallist or whatever' public employees. We get paid anyway whether we do anything or not, is this main aim in life now over i doubt it. I was in a county council for a couple of years and 90% of the time was spent complaining about senior mis-management and how we can do less work or nicking stuff. Un-believable but that's the culture we have given to public sevices. I'm not joking but nearly every day on a global basis the East and particularly the Russians damn the behavior of 'my country' being led by mis-led psuedo lefties in public office, that would never be tolerated for 1 second yet we have the ignorant attitude of public service in this country that is a joke and I get insulted about the lazy-or-ignorant public servants, that would never be tolerated in the places they take false interpretation of their philosophy from...
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Dave01
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Loco, enightenus AE is a word: As a letter of the Old English Latin alphabet, it was called æsc ("ash tree") after the Anglo-Saxon futhorc rune ᚫ (), which it transliterated; its traditional name in English is still ash æʃ. What is your meaning of AE or do you mea A&E?
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Dave01
Thursday, March 14, 2013
It is back to my old comment, The public need to understand what the word's AE stand for. !!!
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loco
Thursday, March 14, 2013
The problem is that these so called 'troubleshooters' are so contaminated in their way of thinking that they are no use to anybody... same old words and no action.. maybe more and new processes but no common sense at all...
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Dave01
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Bet they had a lovely cosey chat. All in it together certainly rings true for these people. MPs are pleased, so they are in favour of rewarding failure, why doesn't that surprise me.
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Police Commissioner ???
Thursday, March 14, 2013