Exclusive: Ambitious merger 'not a Machiavellian plan', says trust chief

Clare Panniker

Plans to merge three Essex trusts were proposed after an experiment to run the hospitals as a “group” with one leadership team proved “cumbersome and inefficient”, the chief executive has told HSJ.

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