Background
In 1986 Deepak qualified as a consultant gastroenterologist, and began working at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in 1996.
Deepak was appointed to Medical Director in 2016, providing clinical and managerial leadership for the medical workforce of the Trust.
He works closely with the Chief Nurse in ensuring that high quality, safe patient care and efficient practice is always optimised to meet the needs of patients and their families.
Body memberships
- General Medical Council (GMC)
Ambitions for the Trust
- To ensure that the workforce of the organisation drives for a positive population health
- To recruit and retain the very best medical workforce, offering the latitude to innovate and develop services to adapt to our patient needs
- To ensure that collaboration continues to be at the heart of our delivery via our local authorities, partner organisations, neighboring trusts and other critical community partners
Ambitions for the Tees Valley health and care landscape
- To work to develop a Tees health and care system that offers principally a more aspirant population health outlook.