Draft:Tim Orchard

  • Comment: You have written his resume, but not said nor cited why he is notable. 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 13:47, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

Professor Tim Orchard is a British healthcare official who is chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, one of the largest NHS Trusts in London. He is a consultant physician and Professor of gastroenterology at Imperial College London and is renowned for his ongoing research and teaching in the field of inflammatory bowel disease.

Under his leadership at the Trust, he has been a vocal campaigner for the rebuild of St Mary's Hospital which is part of the national 'New Hospital Programme'.[1] The Trust has the biggest backlog maintenance liability of any NHS organisation with an estimated £7m spent annually on repairs at St Mary's to stay operational.[2][3]

  1. ^ "St Mary's: Crumbling hospital must be rebuilt, Trust boss says". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
  2. ^ Lydall, Ross (2021-09-16). "'Perfect storm' of more Covid, soaring A&E demand and staff exhaustion". The Standard. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
  3. ^ Orchard, Tim (2023-08-02). "Hospitals are crumbling, and the impact on patients is immeasurable". New Statesman. Retrieved 2024-11-13.