New Director of Improvement and Partnership appointed

Rosanna will take over from Angela Potter, who retired earlier this year, and we expect her to start in Autumn at a date to be confirmed shortly. Before then, Rosanna will spend some days meeting with colleagues and getting to know the Trust and the wider Gloucestershire integrated care system.  As soon as we have a final start date confirmed we will let colleagues know.

Douglas Blair, Chief Executive, said: “I am sure you will all join me in giving Rosanna a very warm welcome to the Trust. The Executive team and I are very much looking forward to her commencing with us and leading on co-produced improvement and change of our services, and also how we optimise our working with health, social care and third sector partners. Rosanna will be a great addition to both the Trust and the wider care community. Des Gorman and colleagues in the Strategy and Partnerships team are kindly continuing to provide cover until she starts.”

Rosanna said: “I’m so pleased to be joining GHC as the director of improvement and partnership. I relish the opportunity to work alongside colleagues, experts by experience, members, governors and wider ICS partners, utilising a continuous improvement approach to deliver person centred, strength-based care and excellent services. I feel the level of integration in the Gloucestershire system provides a fantastic platform to deliver improvements across physical and mental health services, that strive to support people to stay well in their communities.”

Rosanna lives in Gloucestershire and joins us from the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS). She is currently a Programme Director, leading an ICS-wide transformation programme, focused on improving older people’s care. This programme is working in partnership with health and social care organisations and the VCSE sector, to redesign acute and community models of care, with an aim of improving system flow and maximising the opportunity for older people to retain their independence, through Homefirst integrated options. Prior to that, Rosanna was Deputy Chief Operating Officer at North Bristol Trust for eight years, across elective and emergency portfolios, having originally joined the NHS as a Graduate Management Trainee. Outside her NHS roles, Rosanna is passionate about engaging and harnessing the power of communities to support families and young people in need; and is chair of Baby Bank Network in Bristol, as well as a board member of the National Baby Bank Alliance.