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The new Chief Operating Officer (COO)of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has been named as Andrew Hall.

Andrew – who will join NUH in July – is currently Executive Chief Operating Officer at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB), a role he took on in October 2023 after a decade in senior operational leadership roles at the Trust. He had previously been the Deputy COO, Trust Lead for Planned Care, and Managing Director for Queen’s Hospital in Burton-on-Trent.

He has significant experience in leading service integration through a merger process, which created UHDB as a 14,000-employee Trust covering a 1m population catchment area with two acute sites and three community hospitals. Previous roles have covered transformation and operations functions, and he was also Divisional Director of Surgery.

Before joining UHDB, Andrew held senior roles in local government and the NHS, mainly in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, with experience in urban regeneration, health inequalities, community services, and integrated health and social care. For the past 10 years, he has been a Non-Executive Director of Nottingham Emergency Medical Services (NEMS) - a non-profit company that provides urgent treatment services at Queen’s Medical Centre and King's Mill Hospital. He has chaired the company for four years but will step down when he joins NUH. Andrew also leads regional partnership work as Chair of the East Midlands Radiotherapy Network, which supports joint working between the region’s five Trusts that deliver this important component of cancer treatment.

"I am delighted to be joining NUH at an exciting time in the Trust's history,” said Andrew. “It's clear that the Trust has a dedicated and caring workforce and I have been humbled by the warm welcome I have received from the people I have met already. I look forward to meeting more of the team before I join in the summer and to supporting NUH to continue to progress its People First strategy and improve services for patients.”

NUH Chief Executive Anthony May said: “I am delighted to welcome Andrew to NUH. With his experience and track record in NHS operations, as well as wider roles outside of healthcare, I am confident he will make a significant contribution to improving our services and enhancing patient care. Andrew’s appointment is important for the continued development of our key People First strategic priorities, and I look forward to working with him.

“I would like to take this opportunity to again express my thanks to Lisa Kelly for her dedication and hard work during her time at NUH, and to thank Jen Beaumont for her commitment to the role during the period that she is Acting Chief Operating Officer.”