The Gateshead Health NHS Trust boss is to retire early in 2023 and said she "could not be prouder" of the way her team had come through the Covid-19 pandemic.
Yvonne Ormston has been chief executive at the Trust, which manages the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, since 2019, and before that held the same role at the North East Ambulance Service for four years. When she took the reins in Gateshead she was returning to the organisation - as she had previously been deputy chief executive.
Overall, Ms Ormston has spent 38 years in the NHS - and in 2018 she was made an MBE for services to health. Added to the challenges of leading a hospital trust through the pandemic in she also spent 2021 with a breast cancer diagnosis, and worked through months of treatment.
