{"id":440129,"date":"2026-05-22T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:23:07","slug":"east-kent-nhs-trust-chief-executive-leaves-role-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/440129\/","title":{"rendered":"East Kent NHS trust chief executive leaves role after four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher joined EKH from the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in London, where she had served as chief executive since 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was humbling to experience the commitment given in providing healthcare services to the local population and the dedication in doing that,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust&#8217;s interim chair, Dr Olu Olasode, said the trust had made &#8220;significant progress in many areas&#8221; under Fletcher&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This included maternity services being upgraded from inadequate to good by the Care Quality Commission, as well as securing investment to improve its buildings, facilities and equipment. s<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also included a \u00a329m investment to improve same day emergency care services at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and access to emergency care at Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fletcher joined EKH from the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in London, where she had served as chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-440129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}