WEDNESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER, 2018

Photograph attached: Grant Archibald, new Chief Executive of NHS Tayside

New Chief Executive for NHS Tayside

Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has announced Grant Archibald as the new Chief Executive of NHS Tayside.

Grant is currently Chief Operating Officer of Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Acute Services which employs 20,000 staff delivering services to a local population of 1.2 million from nine acute hospitals.

Born in Dundee and growing up in Broughty Ferry, Grant started his working life as a porter at Ninewells while he was a student at Dundee University, so he’s no stranger to Tayside health services. He began his NHS career on the National Graduate Trainee Programme in 1984 and his first permanent work was in Dundee Royal Infirmary and then Ninewells Hospital.

Now having worked for the NHS in Scotland for 34 years, he has held a series of senior management posts in three of Scotland’s largest health boards - NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

While in Glasgow, Grant has been at the helm of a £1 billion major re-organisation of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Acute Services. He has also overseen an ambitious building programme that included the new Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow which opened in 2015.

Welcoming Grant, NHS Tayside John Brown said, “The Board of NHS Tayside has secured a first-class Chief Executive who brings not only a wealth of experience to the role, but an excellent track record of delivering complex change and transformation of health and care services in the largest NHS provider in Scotland.

“NHS Tayside is a Health Board which has seen a lot of changes over the past eight months and now has a clear sense of purpose and direction, with improved financial management and a whole system Transforming Tayside programme of change which puts our clinical colleagues front and centre.

“Our new Chief Executive can now build on these firm foundations and ensure NHS Tayside can lead the way in improving health and care for everyone.”

Grant said, “I am delighted and proud to have been appointed to this important post and am looking forward to getting on with the job of continuing to build a really bright future for health and social care services in the region.

“I know that the staff in Tayside do amazing things every day both in communities and in our hospitals and it is now my job to make sure that they can keep making a difference to patients, service users and their families.

“Health and social care services are changing across the country and I look forward to the opportunity of working with my staff and partner organisations to deliver quality services for the population. I want Tayside to be at the forefront of designing better, more joined-up pathways of care from home to hospital and back home again, so that everyone can benefit from improved outcomes and better health and wellbeing.”

New role for Malcolm Wright

• The Cabinet Secretary has also announced that NHS Tayside Chief Executive Malcolm Wright will take over as interim Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director General of Health and Social Care for the Scottish Government following Paul Gray’s decision to step down.

Contact:

NHS Tayside Communications

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