A troubled health board in Wales is struggling to find a new chief executive. According to BBC Wales, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in north Wales has failed to find a new boss so far, despite management saying they have carried out an "intensive search" for one and offering a salary of up to £225,000.
In February, the health board had been put back into special measures by the Welsh Government after being taken out of them just before the 2021 election. Recently, a damning report into Wales’ largest health board, which covers the county of Anglesey, Gwynedd, Conwy, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, has found that senior members of the finance team deliberately misrepresented the organisation's accounts.
The report, carried out by accountancy firm Ernst Young (EY), found there was systemic cultural failings in the finance team at Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board and that the poor practices were widely known within senior leaders of the health board. You can read more about this report here.
