Leonard Fenwick

Sir Leonard Fenwick, CBE is the longest serving NHS hospital Chief Executive. He has been the Chief Executive of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and its predecessor the Freeman Hospital since 1977.[1] He has worked in the NHS since he joined aged 18 as a management trainee. He commenced work in the health service at the Newcastle General Hospital, becoming senior management lead of the Freeman Hospital and then in 1977 was appointed as Chief Executive when it successfully became The Freeman Group of Hospitals NHS Trust.[2]

In April 2011 he was named as the 11th highest paid employee (£232 500) in the English NHS.[3]

In 2015 the Health Service Journal judged him as the fifth to top Chief Executive in the National Health Service.[4]

According to The Guardian newspaper, he is one of a number of NHS Chief Executives who publicly support government imposition of the new junior doctors contract [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Sir Leonard R Fenwick CBE - The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust". Shelford Group. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Team". NewGene. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Named: the highest NHS fat cat earners". Daily Telegraph. 30 April 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "HSJ's top provider chief executives". Health Service Journal. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
  5. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/feb/11/google-faces-grilling-at-public-accounts-committee-politics-live

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