The Department comprises a number of directorates and is supported by various boards and committees. This is how it is currently organised:
Chief Nursing Officer’s Directorate
- is led by Dame Christine Beasley CBE
- delivers on the Department’s health and social care agenda, leading on reducing healthcare associated infections, policies to improve health and welfare outcomes and modernising nursing careers
Commissioning Development Directorate
- is led by Dame Barbara Hakin OBE
- leads on patient experience, innovation and commissioning to drive improvements in patient outcomes
Communications Directorate
- is led by the Director of Communications. Sam Lister has been appointed to the post
- is responsible for strategy and delivery of communications and engagement in all forms with the public, staff, media and stakeholders
Corporate Development Directorate
- is led by Flora Goldhill CBE
- delivers the Department’s internal operations functions, driving efficiencies and improvements
Health Improvement and Protection Directorate
- is led by Professor David R Harper CBE
- is at the heart of the Department’s public health work on illness prevention, lifestyle diseases, immunisation and pandemics
Informatics Directorate – Connecting for Health
- is led by Katie Davis
- supports the NHS to deliver better, safer care to patients through improved IT systems and services
NHS Finance, Performance and Operations Directorate
- is led by David Flory CBE
- includes work on recovery and support, NHS financial strategy, NHS financial control, Financially Challenged Trusts programme and NHS capital strategy
NHS Medical Directorate
- is led by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh CBE
- engages with the health service through strategic policies and strategies to drive improvements in patient care
Policy, Strategy and Finance Directorate
- is led by Richard Douglas CB
- is responsible for DH-wide policy, financial planning and strategy development
Provider Development Directorate
- is led by Ian Dalton CBE
- leads on development of the provider landscape and delivery of the Foundation Trust pipeline, giving patients a choice of high quality providers, whether they be sustainable autonomous NHS providers or new providers such as social enterprises or the independent sector
Research and Development Directorate
- is led by Professor Dame Sally Davies
- provides the evidence base for policy development, evaluation of policy implementation and supports research into the needs of patients and the public
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships Directorate
- is led by David Behan CBE
- works to make sure everyone has fair access to the full range of care and support services they need now and will need in the future
Workforce Directorate
- is led by Jan Sobieraj
- is responsible for all human resource matters, business plans and structures to help drive productivity and improvement to the working environment in the health and social care sector
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