The chief executive at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is to move to a regional digital health and care role.
Professor Dave Rosser will leave UHB at the end of the year to become strategic director for digital health and care across the West Midlands. The role will focus on transformation, with an aim to “link together public sector digital, technology and data programmes across the region”.
Commenting on the appointment, Professor Dave Rosser, said: “Transformation has been my vision, and my passion, for many years. I believe that we have the biggest opportunity in a generation to completely reshape the provision of health and social care; having a life-changing impact on many.
“I have been exceptionally privileged to have held a number of roles at UHB and to have worked with so many incredible people; I am so proud, of so many things we have achieved for our patients and our colleagues.”
Jonathan Brotherton, currently UHB’s deputy CEO and chief operating officer, will become the trust’s CEO from 1 January 2023.
Harry Reilly, Interim Chair, added: “Dave will be a massive loss to the trust, but I am pleased that he is following his long-term passion for transformation and will remain very much integral to health and care, Birmingham and beyond, in his new role.”
HTN last reported on UHB in September, when the trust launched a market engagement exercise for a digital dictation and speech recognition solution.
