Heartbeat July 2018
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Siten Roy appointed as new group<br />
director<br />
Orthopaedic Consultant, Siten Roy<br />
has been appointed as the new group<br />
director of surgical services. <strong>Heartbeat</strong><br />
caught up with Siten to find out more<br />
about his new role.<br />
“My role as group director is to deliver<br />
our clinical and strategic aims, objectives,<br />
obligations and the long-term vision in a<br />
timely manner,” said Siten.<br />
“I will be supporting frontline colleagues<br />
and management teams to fully utilise<br />
their expertise, experiences and enthusiasm<br />
to further improve patient safety, quality<br />
of care, productivity and resource<br />
management.”<br />
Siten has been part of surgical services for<br />
16 years after joining as an orthopaedic<br />
consultant in 2002. He completed a masters<br />
in healthcare leadership at Birmingham<br />
University and has been theatres clinical<br />
director since 2015, whilst he is also a board<br />
member the West Midlands Leadership<br />
Academy.<br />
After working with surgery staff and<br />
managers for a few years in his role as<br />
orthopaedic clinical director and then<br />
Siten Roy is the new group director of surgical<br />
services<br />
SURGICAL SERVICES<br />
theatres clinical director, Siten feels<br />
privileged to now work with the executive<br />
team. He said: “I consider this an<br />
excellent opportunity to develop a feeling<br />
of camaraderie and teamwork within<br />
surgical services and also to work closely<br />
with other divisions to support each other<br />
in delivering safe and timely patient care.<br />
“I would also like to put extra emphasis<br />
on training and research and clinical trials.<br />
“Externally I would like to work with<br />
Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical<br />
Commissioning Group and the primary<br />
care sector to increase collaborative<br />
working.<br />
“I will also do my best to encourage,<br />
facilitate and talent manage leadership<br />
qualities of all the team, both internally<br />
through the established leadership<br />
programme and externally through the<br />
national and West Midlands Leadership<br />
Academy.”<br />
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