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Addenbrooke's Doctor to join NHS East of England Team as new Medical Director

14 January 2008

Dr Robert Winter

NHS East of England has announced the appointment of respected clinician Dr Robert Winter as its new Medical Director. Dr Winter is currently the Medical Director at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is leading the east of England’s work in delivering the Lord Darzi led Next Stage Review of the NHS.

Dr Winter will join the senior team of NHS East of England, the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) that covers Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. He will work to the Regional Director of Public Health, Dr Paul Cosford, in providing medical advice and knowledge to the SHA.

Dr Winter will continue to be a practicing clinician at Addenbrooke’s for two days a week and will work with NHS East of England the rest of his working week.

Neil McKay, Chief Executive of NHS East of England, said, “Robert is an outstanding clinician and as shown by his work at Addenbrooke’s and the role he has performed in the current Next Stage Review he is also an inspirational and exceptional NHS leader. We are delighted he has chosen to join our team and will only make us and the NHS in the east of England stronger.”

Dr Paul Cosford, Regional Director of Public Health, said, “This is a fantastic appointment. Robert will work with me to ensure that the decisions and actions of the SHA in leading the regional NHS are clinically driven and will ensure that our relationships with clinical colleagues remain to a high priority. The fact that he is continuing to treat patients in combination with his new role will ensure that up to the minute experience and knowledge from the front line of healthcare continues to have a place at the SHA leadership table.”

Dr Robert Winter said, “I am delighted to have been offered the post of medical director of the East of England Strategic Health Authority. This is an exciting opportunity for me to use the experience I’ve gained over the last six years as Medical Director at Addenbrooke’s Hospital to help bring about change and improvement to our health service in the Eastern region. The post will allow me to continue my role as respiratory physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, which is something that I have always valued highly, and which will keep me fully abreast of what is happening in the direct patient care world. I look forward to the challenges this interesting role will bring.”

Notes for editors

• Dr Winter will take up his post at the beginning of April 2008.

• Dr Winter is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Addenbrooke’s and Papworth hospitals. He is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Robert is Chairman of the Acute Care Clinical Pathway Group, part of Lord Ara Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review. He is Chairman of the Emergency Care Steering Group at Addenbrooke’s and of the Clinical Directors’ Forum. He is also Chairman of the East of England Medical Directors’ Forum. He is a member of the Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) Grants Committee and Research Advisory Committee and Chairman of the Professional Advisory Committee. Robert obtained his MD in London and moved to Addenbrooke’s from a consultant post in north London where he served as Regional Advisor for the Royal College of Physicians.

• For more information on the NHS Next Stage Review and the work happening in the east of England please visit http://www.eoe.nhs.uk/OurNHS/index.html

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