{"id":262173,"date":"2025-11-14T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262173\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:53:14","slug":"sussex-and-surrey-nhs-boards-to-merge-from-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262173\/","title":{"rendered":"Sussex and Surrey NHS boards to merge from April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report to Brighton &amp; Hove City Council&#8217;s Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee said that a number of people were resigning, with many being reappointed as the progress is made in merging the ICBs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This has been denied by NHS Sussex, which has said a mutually agreed resignation scheme was offered to staff for them to leave the organisation ahead of the future changes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>, both NHS Surrey Heartlands and NHS Sussex ICBs now have a joint chair, Ian Smith, and a joint chief executive, Karen McDowell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chair of NHS Sussex, Stephen Lightfoot, who said that hundreds of jobs would go when the proposals were announced in July, retired at the end of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both Mr Smith and Ms McDowell are already in post, while the chief executive of NHS Sussex, Adam Doyle, has become chief executive of NHS Kent and Medway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report to Brighton &amp; Hove City Council&#8217;s Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee said that a number of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-262173","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\/262173","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=262173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}