Non-executive Director, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust NED

There is a vacancy for a Non-executive Director (NED) at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP). This is an exceptional opportunity to share your talents and expertise to make a positive difference to the lives of people served by the Trust.

UHP is the largest hospital in the South West Peninsula, providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary healthcare and it is the region’s major trauma centre. The geography gives the trust a secondary care catchment population of 450,000 with a wider peninsula population of almost 2,000,000 people who can access its specialist services. The population is characterised by its diversity – the rural and the urban, the wealthy and pockets of deprivation, and wide variance in health and life expectancy. Population ageing is a recognised national trend, but is exacerbated locally by the drift of younger people out of the area and older people in. The proportion of the trust’s catchment population aged 85 or over is growing ahead of the national average by approximately 10 years, giving Plymouth the opportunity to innovate on behalf of the nation in services for the elderly.