What collaboration means to us

Kevin Lavery

Designate Chief Executive Officer, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

"You can feel and touch the overwhelming sense of opportunity in Lancashire and South Cumbria and the collective ambition to grasp it.”

Kevin McGee

Chief Executive, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

“We must be bold and ambitious and do the right things in partnership to support better health and care across all of our communities."

Aaron Cummins

Chief Executive, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay

“If you’re a patient or staff member, we want your experience to look and feel the same no matter where you are across Lancashire and South Cumbria.”

David Flory

Designate Chair, Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

“The way the trusts work together will help them individually be the best they can be.”

David Eva

Chairman, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

“The PCB, working with all its trusts, offers the best opportunity to integrate physical and mental health and work with wider partners to improve the lives of our most vulnerable.”

Dr Gerry Skailes

Medical Director, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

“We have a huge opportunity to expand the network way of working to make sure we are learning from the best and reducing duplication so we can focus on delivering high quality care. It’s not a new concept for clinicians, but the provider collaborative enables sharing of best practice on a formal footing.”

Martin Hodgson

Interim Chief Executive, East Lancashire Hospitals

“All NHS employees want to ensure good services, experience and consistency. We know there’s unwarranted variation across Lancashire and South Cumbria – by coming together and having a consistent quality offer we raise the bar.”

Kevin Moynes

Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development, East Lancashire Hospitals

“Our staff are our biggest – and only – asset. We want to retain and invest in our great workforce and attract excellent colleagues to work with us. We want to make Lancashire and South Cumbria a great place to live and work.”

Prof Mike Thomas

Chair, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay

“Our vision is to improve health outcomes. By collaborating and sharing best practices, we’ll improve services.”

Prof Eileen Fairhurst

Chairman, East Lancashire Hospitals

“Our aim is to make life better for the people who live in Lancashire and South Cumbria by ensuring they get the right care at the right time in the right place.”

Prof Ebrahim Adia

Chairman, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

“This is a fantastic opportunity for the five provider trusts in Lancashire and South Cumbria to work in partnership enabling a more efficient use of resources, improved workforce planning and a better patient experience and outcomes.”