{"id":283912,"date":"2025-11-26T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283912\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:05:16","slug":"nhs-faces-existential-threat-to-its-future-hospital-boss-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/283912\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS faces existential threat to its future, hospital boss warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chief executive of two hospitals has expressed his fears for the future of the NHS under the current political climate, as he prepares to retire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nick Hulme is the boss at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT), which includes Ipswich and Colchester hospitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Hulme said: &#8220;We are facing, I think, the most difficult time in health and care. I think there&#8217;s an existential threat to the future of the NHS. I genuinely believe that. And I&#8217;ve never said that before.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made the comments as he addressed other leading health officials at his last Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (SNEE ICB) meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of two hospitals has expressed his fears for the future of the NHS under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-283912","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\/283912","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=283912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}