Yorkshire trust’s deputy leader takes on nursing director role – Nursing Times

The deputy chief executive of a Yorkshire trust is taking on the additional role of director of nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals, it has been announced.

David Purdue will start his new position at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with immediate effect.

David is one of our most prominent and effective leaders

Richard Parker

He will replace the trust's previous nursing director, Moira Hardy, who has retired.

Mr Purdue, who qualified as a nurse in 1990 and has almost 30 years experience in the NHS, said he was delighted to extend his responsibilities at the trust.

Originally joiningDoncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals in 2008 as divisional nurse manager for medicine, Mr Purdue was promoted to chief operating officer in 2013.

Since the middle of last year, Mr Purdue has also been the trust's deputy chief executive -a role he will continue to hold alongside his new nursing post.

However, he will drop his job as chief operating officer.

Under his new director position, Mr Purdue will support the organisation's 2,000-plus nurses, midwives and allied health professionals.

He will oversee the development and delivery of outstanding patient care, whilst driving the trusts strategies for quality, patient experience, research and development, and infection prevention and control.

The trust has recently refreshed its vision to be the safest trust in England, outstanding in all that we do and I believe that our nurses, midwives and allied health professional colleagues are absolutely integral to this ambition, said Mr Purdue. I cant wait to get started.

I cant wait to get started"

David Purdue

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals chief executive Richard Parker said Mr Purdue would be an extremely talented, committed and hardworking nursing director.

David is one of our most prominent and effective leaders, and we have benefited from his insights and expertise for a number of years, he said.

I believe he will apply the same rigour and candour to his new role, and I look forward to the innovations he, and his team, will bring to this particular area of the organisation.

Mr Purdue qualified from the Nottingham School of Nursing and started his career within cardiology at Queens Medical Centre where he set up a number of cardiac nurse-led services.

He has also previously specialised in coronary care and worked at the NHS Modernisation Agency.

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