A review into how a reporting error came about has uncovered tension among an ambulance trust’s previous senior leaders, including that its new CEO felt it was ‘the least cohesive team I have ever joined’.
Management consultancy Verita was commissioned by London Ambulance Service Trust to carry out a review of how it came to be misreporting category 1 (the most serious) response times.
The report, published in board papers on Thursday, said it was caused by a contractor’s programming error going unnoticed and concluded it was “impossible to typify the events of August 2020 as other than an avoidable failure of governance and process”.
Daniel Elkeles, who joined the trust as CEO in August 2021, told the review that when he joined the senior team it was “the least cohesive team I have ever joined” and said the organisation was not “psychologically safe” for those who wanted to speak up.
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Source: HSJ, 26 May 2023
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