"Steering the Ship of a Liverpool NHS Merger"
Thu 12 Sept
|The Racquet Club
The Chief Executive of the new Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, James Sumner, will give an insight into what it has been like to take control of the helm in the turbulent times of an NHS merger, a pandemic, the construction of a new hospital and the demolition of an old one.
Time & Location
12 Sept 2024, 20:00 – 21:00
The Racquet Club, 5 Chapel St, Liverpool L3 9AG, UK
About the event
On 1st October 2019 the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen and Aintree hospitals, as well as Liverpool Dental Hospital, all merged into the new Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT), an organisation which controls just over a billion pounds and is the biggest employer in Merseyside and Cheshire with more than 12,000 staff.
James Sumner joined LUHFT as Chief Executive shortly thereafter in May 2022 and in October of the same year the Trust moved into the newly contructed Royal Liverpool University Hospital. More recently in August 2023 demolition began on the old premises and announced long terms plans for an Academic Health Sciences Campus on the old site.
Come along to find out what it has really been like to take control of the helm in the turbulent times of an NHS merger, a global pandemic, the construction of a new hospital and the demolition of an old one. This…
Tickets
Lecture Only 8pm to 9pm
The lecture starts at 8pm.
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