MM plays a part in Senior resignation; but takes no pleasure from it

As many of you will know by now, Sue Lewis has resigned from Royal Surrey Hospital Trust.  The Trust has issued a media statement to that effect.

You will know the role this blog played in this affair.  It was MM's scoop.  It exposed the relationship between Ms Lewis and the recently dismissed Associate Director of Informatics, Peter Lewis - her husband.  It was the first and only medium to do so; though I subsequently found out in private correspondence that it was not a secret.  And a reader commented that Ms Lewis had been on leave since the original article in the HSJ appeared.

I take no pleasure in all of this.  Ms Lewis seems to have dedicated her career to the NHS, and must have been close to retirement (by working out her age).  The Trust achieved FT status during the previous Labour government, despite not being from the NorthWest, and the Trust being in Tory heartlands.  And it is ranked in the top 40 of CHKS Top Hospitals Award.  All this must have been at the very least not impeded by Ms Lewis.  More likely, she played her part in the Trust's progress.

Hopefully we will soon get the full story.  Sunlight is the best disinfectant (but please take specialist advice from a microbiologist before you build a germ busting policy on that basis).