8:30am Monday 8th February 2010
By Mark Stead
DEVELOPING closer links with patients will be top of the agenda for the new man taking up a key position in York’s healthcare network.
Alan Rose will become chairman of York Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the start of April as he replaces the outgoing holder of the post, Professor Alan Maynard, who retires next month.
The married father-of-two, who lives in York and runs a landscape gardening business, has been a non-executive director at the hospital for four years and is a former partner at strategy consultants Booz Allen Hamilton, having also previously worked for oil giant Shell.
Mr Rose, who will serve an initial three-year spell in the post, said: “I feel privileged to be given this opportunity to serve our local community and follow the strong leadership provided by our current chairman. The trust’s mission is to deliver safe, effective healthcare to our community, and I look forward to working alongside the governors, trust board and staff to continue this focus.
“In support of this, we wish as Foundation Trust to engage more strongly with the local community in York and beyond.”
Professor Maynard retires after a career devoted to the theory and practice of the funding and delivery of healthcare, and he received an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to the NHS.
He has held the chairman’s role since 1997, having been involved in NHS management in York for 27 years, and also works at the University of York where he was founding director of the Centre For Health Economics and is currently professor of health economics in the department of health sciences and Hull-York Medical School.
He said: “I have greatly enjoyed working with so many wonderful colleagues in York Hospital over the last 27 years.
“During my 12 years as chairman, it has been very rewarding to see so many significant developments which have improved patient services for the York population.
“The challenges of the next few years will be considerable, with everybody having to work even harder and smarter to meet increasing demands for care.
“My many thanks go to all involved in the hospital for their support, and my message is ‘keep up the good work, please’.”
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