Creation of shared corporate services will enable the LAASP organisations to look at this challenge together and move to new models where resources, skills and experience can be brought together, the combined workforce can be deployed more flexibly, and career development pathways can be offered clearly and consistently. 

These are the functions that are considered as corporate services within the programme:

  • Digital, data and information 

  • People, culture and OD 

  • Strategy and business planning 

  • Communications and marketing 

  • Research, development and innovation 

  • Corporate affairs  

  • Commercial and procurement 

  • Finance

  • Quality governance and risk 

  • Transformation and improvement 

  • Corporate operations and performance 

  • Corporate nursing 

  • Corporate medical teams 

  • Estates and facilities. 

  • Within these services we are already carrying high numbers of vacancies across each of our organisations, which we are currently unable to fill 
  • By creating new service models we can make these services more resilient for the future, whilst improving our ability to best support our hospitals, as well as adopting best practice approaches collectively 
  • The result should be that vacancy freezes are no longer required, and services are designed to be delivered within an agreed budget that fits within an agreed, sustainable financial envelope 
  • It will enable us to shape entirely new service for the future, drawing on the skills and expertise of our people for more varied and effective roles and services at scale across the group 
  • We know from recent feedback that staff would like more detail about what establishing a shared corporate services model will entail, and we understand that the delay in providing more information has been frustrating at times.  

  • We will be integrating our corporate services in a phased approach, which will be prioritised around which services are more straightforward to align over a shorter period of time 
  • The services listed as a priority will be those which already have fairly consistent ways of working across each organisation and therefore establishing a shared service should be achievable over the agreed timescales 
  • The more complex services will take longer to align, and these will be planned to take place at a later stag 
  • We will be following our agreed People Principles  - Transparency, Fairness, Consistency, Opportunity, Involvement and Engagement – throughout the whole process.