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New Chief Executive Appointed

29/01/2008

Dr Frank Harsent has been appointed Chief Executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust following Paul Lilley’s retirement in April.

Currently Chief Executive of the Salisbury Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, He spent his early career in the Royal Navy, before joining the NHS in 1986. He has worked his way up to his current position through a range of general management positions including the Director of Clinical Services at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals between 1993 and 1995 and then Chief Executive of North Tees Health NHS Trust in 1995.

In 1999, he took on the role of Chief Executive of Cornwall Healthcare NHS Trust. He has been with his current organisation since 2001 leading it to Foundation status in 2006.


Chair of the Trust, Dame Janet Trotter, said: “I am confident that we have a worthy successor to Paul who will build upon the good foundations we already have in place.”

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