Introducing Pippa, our new Chief Executive
Hello – my name is Pippa, and I’m delighted to be the new Chief Executive here at LNWH.
I’m looking forward to getting to know you as I start to explore the teams and services across our sites over the next few weeks. In the meantime, I want to tell you a little about who I am and what matters to me.
First and foremost, I’m a clinician. I’ve spent most of my career in clinical roles. I’m proud to be a midwife, and that sense of pride in clinical care has always guided me in my career.
So, like you, I want LNWH to offer outstanding care for our communities, and to provide remarkable specialist services.
The task ahead
The whole NHS faces an immense task over the next two years. From managing the biggest ever recovery programme for planned care, to our ongoing work to keep both patients and colleagues safe from Covid-19 and other infections, we have much to achieve. But I’m convinced that together, we can rise to the challenge and help LNWH emerge stronger and more successful than it has ever been.
Your hard work, dedication and expertise have already helped make huge improvements. I know that when the pandemic came along, you didn’t just cope: you excelled, transforming care through research and innovation in the most difficult of circumstances. You have so much to be proud of, and limitless potential.
That’s how I know that, with commitment and ambition, we can be the outstanding organisation that our patients deserve and of which we can continue to be proud. We can be a workplace people are eager to choose, attracting brilliant colleagues to work alongside us. And we can be a place where each one of us feels respected, cared for, and appreciated.
Caring for one another
I’m a firm believer that our success will come not only from providing extraordinary patient care, but from caring for one another as colleagues. To do that, I promise to put your health and wellbeing at the heart of our approach, extending and building on what we can offer you.
Wellbeing is also deeply connected to our culture. Right now, when so many of us need a little extra kindness in our lives, it’s vital that we hold ourselves to the highest standards of professionalism and compassion.
As part of that work, it’s vitally important to make our Trust truly representative and inclusive at all levels. To that end I commit to continuing as the Board champion for race, to listening each month to the issues you raise about ethnicity and inclusion, and to continuing to push for real equity of experience and opportunity right across LNWH.
How you can help
Finally, I want to ask for your help.
You and I both know that the challenge that now faces the NHS will test our imagination and innovation above all.
The answers lie with you, the people who know our patients and our services best. The people working with a problem or challenge know the solution. So please put a voice to those ideas you’ve never mentioned, no matter how obvious or obscure. I would love to hear your ideas, and I'll make sure we work together to put them in place.
We are all one team and need to work together to make LNWH a place we're proud to work in.
Thank you.