London Ambulance Service Chief Executive Fionna Moore Retires

London Ambulance Service today (7 December) announces that Dr Fionna Moore is retiring from her position as chief executive at the end of the year. Dr Moore, who is 67 years old in the new year, plans to ease her way into retirement by spending three days a week doing clinical shifts with the Service, London’s Air Ambulance and in emergency medicine. “I took on the chief executive role intending to do it for two years, to stabilise the Service at what was a challenging time,” said Dr Moore. “I always wanted time at the end of my career to step-back from management responsibilities and focus on my first passion, the clinical care of patients.” Dr Moore has worked in the NHS for over 40 years where she was medical director for the Service for 18 years and chief executive for two. Dr Moore was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2013 for services to the NHS and the emergency services. Chairman, Heather Lawrence OBE, said: “I want to sincerely thank Dr Moore for her years of service. “Her leadership has helped steer the Service through a challenging period and in the last two years she has overseen one of the biggest recruitment drives in NHS history, the development of the advanced paramedic practitioners programme, an improved fleet and focused on the personal development and recognition for everyone who works for the Service.” As Medical Director, Dr Moore led a transformation in patient care, from a doubling of cardiac arrest survival rates in...
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