We are pleased to announce that Matthew Trainer has been appointed as our substantive Chief Executive. For the past three years, he has been CEO of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, which provides a wide range of health and social care in south east London and parts of Kent. Before that he worked for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where he was managing director of the Princess Royal University Hospital in Bromley. Matthew has also worked for NHS England, the Care Quality Commission and the MS Society. He will join our Trust in August. 

We’ve published our Quality Account, which captures how we’ve performed against our priorities over the last year, and sets new ones for the coming year.

Shauna Neylon, who joined our Trust as part of a student summer volunteering programme last year, has wished the NHS a happy birthday as it turns 73.

Today (Monday 5 July) is the 73^rd birthday of our NHS and after such a challenging year, it’s a great time to celebrate how we’ve kept our hospitals running, providing the best possible care for our patients, while also supporting each other.

Caoilin Maclaverty, Consultant Obstetrician, and Maria Colomo, ITU Consultant, are our new Women's Network and Reference Group Co-chairs.

Throughout Pride month this June, we have been holding events and sharing important messages with our staff promoting inclusivity at our Trust.

All of this culminated with a musical performance from our Chief Pharmacy Technician and member of our LGBT+ Network, Mike Dixie.

Millie Krasinka-Chavez, a matron in our Stroke team, has been appointed to the Health Economics Steering Committee of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) in Geneva.

We’ll be investing £11.5m in enhancing and expanding our critical care departments this year.

We are pleased to have introduced robotics software into our Outpatients department in a move that is speeding up processes and giving our staff more time to focus on patient care and experience.