Telford NHS boss Simon Conolly steps down
Wednesday 20th October 2010, 9:12AM BST.
The boss of NHS Telford & Wrekin, Simon Conolly, is quitting the health service.
Mr Conolly – described as a “great servant of the NHS” – has been chief executive of the primary care trust for eight years.
He is leaving under the mutually agreed resignation scheme, a national initiative to reduce management costs across the NHS.
Mr Conolly has worked for the NHS in Shropshire for 18 years and was chief executive of the county’s former community and mental health services trust. He plans to pursue interests outside of the health service.
He said: “Over the last eight years in Telford & Wrekin, I have had the privilege to have worked with highly talented and dedicated staff in the PCT. I am very positive Telford & Wrekin is well placed to address the challenges facing the NHS.”
Trust chairman, Andrew Mason, said: “Simon has been a great servant of the NHS and, under his leadership, the PCT has achieved a great deal on behalf of pa-tients and the community.”
Dr Leigh Griffin will be seconded into the role of chief executive with effect from November 1. He has held a similar post in the North West of England.
Mr Mason said: “In Leigh, we have a very able replacement, one who will be able to build on the excellent work which has been led by Simon.”
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Can’t say I blame him for wanting to go, but I wonder how the “mutually agreed resignation scheme” works then?
Presumably, you get a massive lump-sum payoff and very generous pension, in return for keeping your mouth shut?
All to -ahem!- ‘reduce management costs’.
Nice work if you can get it. And even better when you decide you’ve had enough of it :-)
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And even better when you manage to get a new job within the same sector within a few weeks.
Fair enough, I’ve nothing against rich people getting new job, but if it’s in the public sector again, I’d expect the pay-off to be handed back. There’s been far too many public servants paid off, only to pop back up within weeks.
Especially council chiefs.
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