This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Insight subscribers.
Next year will mark Alex Whitfield’s 20th anniversary of joining the NHS, having stepped away from a decade-long career at an oil company in 2005 to join Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
For the past seven years, Ms Whitfield has been chief executive of Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, part of a financially challenged integrated care system currently undergoing a period of transformation.
HHFT is set to benefit from one of the largest allocations of funding from the national New Hospital Programme – the government’s flagship scheme that promised to deliver “40 new hospitals by 2030”.
While that scheme has been beset by controversy, HHFT has been assured of a sizeable chunk of funding which it plans to use to drastically reshape how services are delivered in Hampshire.
Speaking with HSJ, Ms Whitfield broke down these ambitious plans and shed light on her journey to the NHS.
