Trust Chief Executive retires
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust has announced that Chief Executive Rachel Newson is to retire later this year.
Rachel’s is a personal decision, and is part of an orderly managed leadership transition at the Trust, where new Chair Jagtar Singh joined in September.
She joined the Trust in 2010 from Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. A mental health nurse by background, she had previously worked as mental health strategy lead for the health authority and primary care trusts in the area, and before that led service evaluation work for the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
She is due to leave the Trust in May, having last year declared her intention to retire, to staff and local organisations.
Rachel said: “I feel very privileged to have had a career spanning over 30 years in the NHS, and have experienced so many roles from when I first started nurse training in 1984!
”I feel so lucky to have had the chance to lead this brilliant organisation, and help improve the way we serve our local communities. I will miss so many things about the job, not least the excellent people we have working for us and alongside us across Coventry and Warwickshire.”
Jagtar said: “We will be very sorry to see Rachel leave us. She has been a determined and popular Chief Executive Trust, and has done a great deal to lead important organisational and cultural change here during a time of considerable change nationally across the NHS.
“Rachel leaves us as one of the few NHS bodies that is financially stable and with an excellent team. She has built a ‘can do’ culture that any aspiring CEO will be pleased to take forward.
“We have much to thank her for, and I know she will be warmly remembered across our organisation and beyond.
“The Trust began its formal recruitment process this month, with a new Chief Executive in post by September 2015. The selection process is underway, and we aim to have completed this process by May.”