Appointment of Chair

Harry Turner has been appointed independent chair of The Dudley Multi-specialty community provider.

Harry is an experienced chair having been chair at The Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust for the past couple of years and prior to that Chair of Worcestershire Acute NHS Trust.

He has a wealth of NHS and private sector experience at trust board level including acute, specialist and mental health chair positions and board level in the travel industry and that range of experience will be pivotal to this position as we form a completely new way of delivering care for Dudley people.

Harry’s appointment is for twelve months initially as we work through what form the MCP will take and establish how health and care services will be delivered within it.

Harry said, “I am thrilled at becoming the MCP chair. It is a great opportunity and an honour to make a difference in an area that you have been bought up in. I am really looking forward to working with all of the partners across primary, acute, mental health, care and voluntary sectors, to develop a whole new way of working that will provide long term health and care benefits for the people of Dudley.”

Diane Wake, chair of the MCP transition board said, “We are delighted Harry is joining the team on this journey to become an MCP. The time is right to have an independent chair to support the establishment of the MCP. His energy and enthusiasm for developing Dudley into a truly integrated health and care system is amazing and I am excited at the prospect of what we can achieve.”

Dudley MCP will bring together GP practices, nurses, community health and mental health services, community-based services such as physiotherapy, relevant hospital specialists and others to provide care in the community that is joined up and puts patients at the centre, where they should be.