Paul Fitzsimmons and Daniel Moore appointed as joint executives for Bridgewater Community Healthcare and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals.
Dr Paul Fitzsimmons, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals Executive Medical Director, became shared Medical Director on 22 November, following the departure of Professor Ted Adams, Bridgewater’s Medical Director.
Paul is a consultant geriatrician and stroke physician by background, he studied medicine at Manchester University before undertaking postgraduate training in the North West.
Paul was a Healthcare Leadership Fellow at the Health Foundation and Ashridge University.
He has extensive experience of delivering quality improvement, patient safety initiatives, digital clinical programmes and hospital service reconfigurations.
Daniel Moore, Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals (WHH), took up the role of Joint Chief Operating Officer for WHH and Bridgewater Community Healthcare (BCH), with effect from Monday 9 December.
Both organisations approved the appointment of a joint Chief Operating Officer (COO) to oversee operational delivery and performance achievement across the Trusts.
Prior to his current COO role Dan held a number of senior operational positions within the NHS, including working in operations management across acute hospital trusts in Greater Manchester and Cheshire before joining WHH in 2018.
The shared executive team are looking forward to further progressing opportunities to integrate our services to improve outcomes and experiences for our patients and staff, as we increasingly work together as one.