{"id":77545,"date":"2025-08-19T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77545\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T10:37:09","slug":"care-dorset-appoints-dr-felix-davies-as-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/77545\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Dorset appoints Dr Felix Davies as new director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dr Davies is a registered practitioner psychologist with a wealth of experience in the health and social care sector.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He began his NHS career as a clinical psychologist before taking on the role of director of psychological services in two NHS trusts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new Care Dorset director has held several senior roles, including chief operating officer at a UK adult social care company, managing director of mental health at the charity Turning Point and CEO at POhWER, which provides advocacy to people in the health and social care system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dr Davies said: &#8220;I really like the way Care Dorset talks about the social care challenges \u2013 grasping nettles that need to be grasped.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We need to be thinking about reablement and extra care, rather than just more care homes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I like that Care Dorset is open, assertive and innovative about reaching for these solutions.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is also a non-executive director at Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the Patient Advocate Certification Board in the USA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Care Dorset&#8217;s chair, Caroline Tapster, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful to welcome Dr Davies to the board.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;His expertise and his obvious concern for the wellbeing of the people we support is a huge boost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Davies is a registered practitioner psychologist with a wealth of experience in the health and social care&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-77545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}