Since April 2016, Alastair has been leading the programme for the redevelopment of Whipps Cross Hospital.  This has involved establishing sound working relations across the local health and care system to ensure a partnership approach for developing and delivering proposals for the future of the Hospital.  Alastair has led the work to produce a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for the redevelopment of the site, which sets out the vision for an integrated health, care and wellbeing campus and identifies potential opportunities to be derived from the programme that makes a positive contribution to the regeneration agenda in this part of east London.  He continues to lead the programme as it moves in to the detailed planning phase, the culmination of which will be the agreement of an Outline Business Case (OBC) in 2021.

 

Prior to working for Barts Health, Alastair was a Portfolio Director in the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), with responsibility for providing leadership and support to NHS trusts in north and east London.  This included overseeing the performance management of these NHS Trusts, helping to make sure they provide high quality, sustainable services and providing guidance and support on their journey to achieving Foundation Trust status.  In this role, Alastair worked closely with Barts Health on its journey of quality improvement, after it was placed in to 'special measures' in March 2015.