Posted on: 14 February 2022
We are delighted to confirm that Beverley Geary has been appointed as the NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) Director of Nursing-Designate. Beverley’s appointment has been confirmed following an open and comprehensive recruitment process involving West Yorkshire partners and stakeholders. This is subject to Parliament confirming the statutory responsibilities of ICBs as anticipated from July 2022.
Beverley is currently the Executive Chief Nurse at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where she has worked since March 2019. She has been a nurse for over 30 years and is dual trained in general and mental health nursing. She has worked in several acute providers across the region as a chief nurse, and has experience in education, quality governance and patient experience, which is at the heart of all we do.
Beverley has provided leadership and direction to the Trust’s nursing workforce throughout the period of the pandemic. In her role as lead provider senior responsible officer for the vaccination programme in Humber Coast and Vale she has overseen the vaccination of over three and a half million people in our region.
We anticipate Beverley joining us in the coming weeks where she will pick up an important leadership role on all aspects of quality. She will run our clinical and professional directorate with the ICB Medical Director, Dr James Thomas to ensure we have a strong distributed network of clinical and professional leaders across all sectors.
We are ambitious for colleagues and communities, and it is vital that multi-professional clinical and professional leadership is at the heart of our work.
Beverley said: ‘I am delighted to be taking up this unique opportunity with West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and be part of a team which is delivering whole health system transformation. This is the most progressive area of healthcare delivery and an extremely exciting challenge for me. I am really looking forward to taking up my post in April and working with the teams in the partnership’.
Our Partnership belongs to everyone, including providers, places, and communities. Beverley’s role will include maintaining and developing strong connectivity with place-based and provider collaborative clinical leadership, including the place-based committees of the ICB. We have excellent leaders across all levels, and I am sure you will all welcome Beverley to our system.
Beverley is one of four executive director roles for the ICB (finance, medical, people). Whilst getting our structures and governance right is crucial, integrated care is about practical, real improvements to care and population health.
Following the announcement of Dr James Thomas, Medical Director and Jonathan Webb, Finance Director, the next steps include the appointment of the ICB Designate roles of people director as well as the place-based committee chairs and members this month and four independent non-executive ICB members into next month. We will update you on these important appointments as soon as we can, following open recruitment processes.