Consultants express no confidence in trust chair and board

Consultants at a prestigious teaching hospital have written a letter of no confidence in its chair and board, and have made a string of serious allegations against members of the trust’s leadership team.

The senior medics at Moorfields Eye Hospital Foundation Trust sent the letter, obtained by HSJ, to the organisation’s governors on 26 February.

Allegations in the letter include: there was a bullying culture at the organisation, including “coercive behaviour” by the trust’s chair; the trust’s reputation as a research institution was being damaged; and there was “a lack of corporate integrity”.

The letter, from consultants’ committee chair Hari Jayaram, said more than half of the senior doctors — more than 80 consultants — at the trust had contacted him to “voice a lack of confidence in the organisation by the current chair and board”.

It also said morale among these senior doctors was “at a significant nadir, which most colleagues do not ever recall experiencing in their consultant careers” and that senior staff have lost confidence in the trust’s Freedom to Speak Up process.

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Source: HSJ, 27 February 2025