Gloucestershire NHS boss Dr Frank Harsent to retire Published duration 30 October 2015

image caption Dr Frank Harsent has worked in the NHS for 43 years

The chief executive of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced he is to retire next year.

In a letter to staff, which has been seen by the BBC, Dr Frank Harsent said "the time was right to go and do other things" and he will stand down in May.

The trust runs Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals.

Dr Harsent has worked in the NHS for 43 years and held the position of chief executive in Gloucestershire for the past seven years.

In the letter, he said: "The NHS is about to go through a period of major change and our trust needs a chief executive who will be here for the long term and that would not be me".

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