{"id":315545,"date":"2025-12-14T12:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315545\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T12:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T12:19:16","slug":"top-nhs-boss-suspended-during-whistleblowing-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/315545\/","title":{"rendered":"Top NHS boss suspended during whistleblowing investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mark Fisher has been head of the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board since it was created in 2022<\/p>\n

The top boss at one of the largest NHS integrated care boards (ICB) in England has been suspended while a whistleblowing investigation takes place.<\/p>\n

Mark Fisher has been told to temporarily step down as chief executive of the Greater Manchester ICB during the internal investigation.<\/p>\n

An ICB spokeswoman said Mr Fisher had been suspended “on a precautionary basis whilst an internal process takes place in accordance with our whistleblowing, HR and governance frameworks”.<\/p>\n

She added: “Given no findings have been made at this stage, it is essential that no assumptions are drawn.”<\/p>\n

‘Continuity and stability’<\/p>\n

The ICB is in charge of commissioning and funding healthcare services across Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n

A spokesman said deputy chief executive Colin Scales would step in to cover Mr Fisher’s role to “ensure continuity and stability”.<\/p>\n

“Due to confidentiality and fairness to all parties we are unable to comment further at this time.”<\/p>\n

Mr Fisher has led the ICB since its inception in 2022.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, he announced his intention to retire in 2026.<\/p>\n

He has previously held roles as director general of the Cabinet Office and as secretary to the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry in a public service career spanning 42 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GMICB Mark Fisher has been head of the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board since it was created in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-315545","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\/315545","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=315545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}