AFTER A 10 year service, Professor Jagtar Singh, OBE is leaving Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust.
Jagtar was appointed the trust’s chair in 2014 and had previously had numerous roles in the NHS and Fire Service.
He was the first Asian acting chief fire officer when he was working with Bedworth and Luton fire service.
With the support of the Trust Board, Jagtar introduced an inclusive leaders’ model that has seen several improvements in CWPT’s Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES), Staff Survey results, gender pay gap and CQC ratings.
CWPT played a vital part in delivering vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic and helped administer more than 2.5million vaccines across the Coventry and Warwickshire patch.
Mel Coombes MBE, CWPT’s chief executive officer, said: “I would like to extend my personal thanks to outgoing Chair, Professor Jagtar Singh, OBE, on behalf of everyone at the Trust, for his distinguished service over the 10 years of his tenure.
“Jagtar has brought about a clear focus on delivering culturally competent care, reducing health inequalities, and introducing an inclusive leaders’ model that has seen several improvements to the Trust over this time.
“We wish Jagtar all the best for the future.”
Dianne Whitfield, CWPT’s Vice-Chair, added: “Since I joined CWPT, Jagtar has completely changed the conversation and priority around the equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) agenda at the Trust.
“He’s relentless in what he does, and his passion, compassion, and inspiring leadership have been critical in ensuring EDI is at the heart of everything we do.”
Dianne will be acting Chair at the Trust whilst NHS England undertake a recruitment process to appoint the substantive position.
