Interim Chief Executive announced

Nick Hulme, Chief Executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) has been appointed as the interim Chief Executive at our Trust.

The appointment is from August until February 2024 while NNUH seeks a permanent CEO. He will remain Chief Executive of ESNEFT during this time.

It comes after Sam Higginson moved to NHS England this summer to work on the national outpatient recovery programme, after nearly four years at the Trust.

Tom Spink, NNUH Chair, said: “I am delighted to announce that we have appointed Nick Hulme as our interim CEO. Nick is a very experienced leader who has worked in large, complex organisations like ours and we look forward to welcoming him in a few weeks’ time.”

Nick said: “I am very much looking forward to meeting and working with colleagues at NNUH and getting to know more about the wider health and social care system in Norfolk and Waveney, to help improve how we care and treat people.”

Nick Hulme has worked in the NHS for more than 40 years. He is also a Board member of NHS Providers which represents NHS Trusts throughout the country.

Save the date: our Annual General Meeting

Our Annual General Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 4 October at the Benjamin Gooch Lecture Theatre on Level 1 of the East Atrium.

You can meet our teams and Governors outside the lecture theatre from 2pm with talks starting from 4pm. This year, we will have presentations about our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and thrombectomy service as well as our annual N&N Hospitals Charity Awards.

If you’d like to attend, email communications@nnuh.nhs.uk