The Isle of Wight NHS Trust’s Chief Executive, Maggie Oldham, will be taking up a new role on secondment to support other NHS organisations on their improvement journeys.
She will join the National Intensive Support Team at NHS England & Improvement from 1st December 2021.
In a message to staff shared earlier today Maggie Oldham said:
“It has been an honour to work so closely with you during the last four years. I am tremendously proud of everything we have achieved together, especially delivering the improvements highlighted by the recent Care Quality Commission report.”
Trust Chairman Melloney Poole said:
“Maggie has served Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Island residents with distinction since taking up the role of Chief Executive in 2017.
“Her secondment to the National Intensive Support Team at NHS England & Improvement will ensure that NHS staff and patients continue to benefit from her experience and expertise.
“Maggie’s dedication to supporting staff health and wellbeing and delivering high quality, compassionate services for our community has helped to drive the organisation forward even with the added challenges of the pandemic.
Article continues below this advertisement “Along with the wider leadership team she has worked hard to bring about sustainable improvement in the services that Islanders rely on. Working with the National Intensive Support Team she will be able to put her expertise and energy to good use supporting the improvement of services in other parts of the health service.
“Colleagues on the Island and across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight health and care system will miss her greatly and we are all extremely grateful for the way she has led this organisation through its improvement journey.”
Darren Cattell, the Trust’s Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Finance, Estates, and Information Management and Technology (IM&T), will second into the role of Chief Executive from Wednesday 1st December.
Darren’s appointment ensures consistent leadership as the Trust builds on its recent success in achieving a Good rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and works to make its services clinically and financially sustainable for the benefit of the Isle of Wight community.
Well I have to say, moving on, we need some blue sky thinking about this….. Let’s hope whoever replaces her will ignite the funding streams available to the NHS and creative some real gold tap moments. Business speak I hate it.
Managed to fiddle a good CQC result, runs for the hills at the first opportunity.
Local hospital is falling apart and she gets a promotion. Proof it’s impossible to get sacked from the NHS. They say they don’t have enough staff yet so many spend so much time standing around talking leaving the few that wish to work to take up their slack.
Another CEO that has failed to deliver… despite the banging on about getting a “good’ CQC report,,this only covered a handful of services.. notably the hospital was deemed as Inadequate under the ‘Being well led ‘ category. Still have one of the highest official complaint rates of any NHS Trust in the country..numerous litigations currently ongoing… dreadful ‘mistakes’ in the papers..” sorry we killed your baby..we will make changes to make sure it never happens again” !! This hospital is not fit for purpose .. it is disgraceful that they continue to get away with such 3rd rate ‘care’..