The chair of a trust with significant financial challenges has announced his intention to retire, after around 40 years in senior healthcare leadership positions.
Nigel Beverley has led Mid and South Essex FT since it was created by a merger in 2020, as well as one of the trusts taken over before it.
Mr Beverley said he had been a chair in the NHS for ten years, and first joined the health service in the 1970s. He has been CEO of numerous local NHS organisations, both substantively and as an interim, including Southend Healthcare Trust in the late 1980s.
MSE, the largest trust in the East of England, is facing the highest level of national scrutiny over its financial position. It was placed in the national “recovery support” programme earlier this year - previously known as “special measures” - earlier this year.
It plans to deliver an £85m deficit this year, and chief executive Matthew Hopkins told staff it had been ordered to cut 600 whole-time equivalent posts.
It had the lowest score in the region last year for staff recommending as a place to work.
He said: ”It’s now the right time for me to plan my retirement and hand over the reins to someone else.”
Mr Beverley said he had “thoroughly enjoyed” his time at MSEFT. He said: “It is a thriving organisation with incredibly committed staff who I know are passionate about providing our patients with the best possible care.”
He is expected to leave in March next year and recruitment for a replacement is expected to start shortly.
Source
Press release
Source Date
3rd September 2024
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