\n Karen Howell OBE, who has spent two years at GMMH, will step down in June 2026.\n<\/p>\n
\n She has spent 46 years working across the health and care sector and will work with the trust chair on a recruitment process for her successor.\n<\/p>\n
\n She joined GMMH in June 2024 after work in the Wirral.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Howell said: “It has been a privilege to be the CEO of GMMH and I believe it is now time for someone else to take the organisation forward in its ambition to be an excellent provider of healthcare, a great place to work and build further its internationally established reputation as a leader in the field of research and innovation.\n<\/p>\n
\n “After over 46 years of national, regional and local health and care service, it is time for me to take a break and focus on my loved ones and my life outside of the NHS.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Like very many people working across the public sector, my loved ones and indeed myself have had to come a close second for a too long.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I\u2019m looking forward to seeing what the future holds.”\n<\/p>\n
\n During her tenure, Ms Howell supported the trust\u2019s exit from the national Recovery Support Programme.\n<\/p>\n
\n She also led key improvements, including the appointment of a new board, restructuring governance, and reopening secure forensic mental health services.\n<\/p>\n
\n Tony Warne, chair of GMMH, said: “Karen has been a transformational leader, a wonderful colleague and it\u2019s been a real privilege to work alongside her on our improvement journey.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Colin Scales, acting CEO of NHS Greater Manchester, said: “Karen has had an exceptional career and she has brought a level of energy, determination and passion to the CEO role at GMMH that sets her apart from most other leaders.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Karen will be an enormous loss to the NHS leadership community, to Greater Manchester and to GMMH.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It has been a privilege to work alongside her and I will miss her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Howell OBE, who has spent two years at GMMH, will step down in June 2026. She has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-395214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395214","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=395214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}