09/07/2025
Dr George Findlay is standing down from his role as Chief Executive at University Hospitals Sussex.
As we prepare to launch our new Trust strategy for 2025-30, we will set out how we can realise our potential as one of the largest trusts in the country to provide consistently excellent care across all our hospitals.
George said: “Given that this strategy is for the long term, it’s right that I consider my role in what will be five years of dynamic change and improvement.
“I’ve worked in the Trust for more than 10 years and I’m very proud to have been its chief executive for the last three. However, leading such a large, diverse organisation is a hugely demanding job and I do not anticipate continuing to do so for a further five years.
“I believe it’s in everyone’s best interests that the strategy’s delivery is led by someone who is committed to being here through to 2030, rather than have to change leadership part way through.
“Leading UHSussex – and more importantly the people who make it what it is – has been a genuine privilege for me so this is a difficult decision, but it is the right one.”
As well as looking to the future, it’s important we reflect on the impressive progress we have made together (and this is merely scratching the surface):
🤝The successful merger of two large trusts into a single organisation
🏨the completion of the Louisa Martindale Building
📋we’ve made massive progress on planned care waiting lists and on waiting times for cancer diagnosis and care
📉in ED we’ve halved the number of people waiting for more than 12 hours
✨and a new centre of excellence for colorectal cancer surgery has been created at Worthing Hospital, and we’re starting to develop our new specialist stroke centre at St Richard’s Hospital.
Our forthcoming five-year strategy seeks to go further, to fully unlock the great potential we have as a single, unified Trust.
George said: “I truly believe that our new strategy, delivered by the brilliant people working in all our hospitals, provides the blueprint for a very bright future.”
A handover will begin from mid-July and Trust Board will oversee the appointment of a successor for the long term.
More about this announcement can be found on our website: https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/news/change-of-leadership-at-uhsussex/
