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Helen Beck

Helen Beck

Healthcare Management
Bury st edmunds, England, United Kingdom

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Helen Beck has been appointed as the new executive chief operating officer at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (WSFT). Helen was the Trust’s deputy chief operating officer for three years before stepping into the role of interim chief operating officer last year, following the departure of Jon Green who is now chief executive at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn. Helen was the operational lead for the successful implementation of the Trust’s electronic patient record system in 2016, allowing patients’ records to be digitalised. This key project led to NHS England identifying WSFT as a global digital exemplar; one of the country’s most digitally advanced NHS trusts. She has also been instrumental in the Trust’s efforts to reduce waiting times for elective treatment; national standards say that patients should wait no longer than 18 weeks from GP referral to treatment, 92% of the time. Under Helen’s leadership, WSFT achieved an indicative 92.07% against this standard in May.
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