{"id":208779,"date":"2025-10-18T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208779\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:08:07","slug":"ipswich-and-colchester-nhs-hospitals-boss-to-retire-after-47-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/208779\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich and Colchester NHS hospitals boss to retire after 47 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

During his career the healthcare veteran has worked as a social worker, with people with HIV and AIDS, and in sexual health, including at King’s College in London.<\/p>\n

After spending time as an operations director at two hospitals, he took on his first chief executive role in Croydon before taking charge at Ipswich Hospital 13 years ago.<\/p>\n

He then also became responsible for Colchester Hospital when two hospital trusts merged<\/a> to form the East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n

Colchester recently received a “requires improvement” rating from the Care Quality Commission<\/a> after the hospital was inspected in April.<\/p>\n

But Mr Hulme stressed to the BBC that his retirement was not a knee-jerk reaction to the watchdog’s report and was not the reason for his departure.<\/p>\n

“It is really disappointing some parts of the media have linked my retirement to the CQC report, because there’s absolutely no connection,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I made this decision weeks if not months before the CQC report came out, I have been thinking about this for six to eight months, so that is totally untrue.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his career the healthcare veteran has worked as a social worker, with people with HIV and AIDS,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-208779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}