40-year career brings tributes for Mike Fleming
12/01/2012
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After a career spanning 40 years in the NHS, Mike Fleming, Director of the Horton General Hospital, will be leaving Oxford University Hospital’s NHS Trust (OUH) at the end of March 2012.
Mike has worked within the Oxfordshire healthcare system in a number of senior management roles since 1984. He was the first Board level HR Director to have been appointed in 1994 to what is now the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust and became Director of the Horton General Hospital in August 2003.
During his career, Mike has worked closely with Oxford's two universities on medical staffing and training and education of nursing staff. During a period working for the former Oxfordshire Health Authority in 1985, he was the Senior Personnel Nurse responsible for the transfer of nurse education from the health authority to what is now Oxford Brookes University.
Mike said: "It has been for me a real joy and privilege to have worked in Oxfordshire’s healthcare organisations with the highlights of my career being appointed as HR Director of the former Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and more recently as Director of the Horton General Hospital. I have worked with so many brilliant and dedicated people over my career, many of whom have had a major impact on my personal and working life.
"It is the staff who work tirelessly in the pursuit of the highest possible quality of care and treatment for patients, along with teaching and pioneering research, that makes the NHS and associated academic institutions the most fulfilling places to work. I wish the Oxford University Hospital’s NHS Trust, and all those who work for it, nothing but continued success for the future."
Trust Chief Executive, Sir Jonathan Michael, said: "Mike has made an enormous contribution to both the Trust and the wider Oxfordshire healthcare system. In recent years he has played a prominent and key role at the Horton General Hospital in his determination to deliver the very best for staff and patients and for the local community in Banbury and North Oxfordshire. We will miss his commitment and support but wish him all the very best for the future."