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Head of NHS Change and Innovation Centre
04/11/2002
The Director of NHSScotland's new Centre for Change and
Innovation has been named as June Andrews, the director of
nursing in Forth Valley and formerly Scottish Secretary of
the Royal College of Nursing.
The Centre for Change and Innovation will incorporate
existing strategic change and service redesign units, build
on their achievements and expand their work.
Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm said:
"There is groundswell of opinion throughout the NHS for
the need to change and find new ways of delivering care to
people. I know that there is a great deal of frustration
among both staff and patients. They want to improve the way
it operates and redesign services from a patient's point of
view.
"The new centre will not impose change from the centre
but will support frontline staff as they lead change. It
will encourage innovation and help to spread good
practice.
"I am very pleased to confirm the appointment of June
Andrews as Director of the Centre for Change and
Innovation. She is an outstanding individual who comes to
this post with a wealth of experience of the NHS both in
England and Scotland, as a front line nurse, a manager and
as a policy advisor and analyst in health care and
employment issues."
June Andrews said:
"Too many patients feel let down by weaknesses in the
system. Staff work very hard but often systems work against
them. People at the front line need to be given freedom,
responsibility, skills and resources to do a better
job.
"The Centre for Change and Innovation will identify good
practice and work to make it universal. I'm very realistic
about the challenges that staff in the NHS face, but I
think that there is a widespread appetite for change,
whether that is changing the culture or making better use
of technology."
Biography
June Andrews was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, and
educated at Ardrossan Academy and Glasgow University where
she graduated in philosophy and English before completing a
masters postgraduate degree in American studies at
Nottingham University.
Her first NHS job was as an auxiliary, stacking shelves
in the intensive care unit at the Western Infirmary in
Glasgow. She later trained as a general and registered
mental nurse, specialising in the care of elderly people
with mental illness.
After working as nurse manger in Epsom, Surrey, she was
appointed ethical advisor and later assistant director of
policy and research for the Royal College of Nursing. She
served as the RCN's Scottish Secretary between 1993 and
1999. For the last three years she has been Director of
Nursing at Forth Valley Acute NHS Trust.