NEWS HR

Digital health platform Heartbeat Labs has hired former Babylon Health chief experience officer Chad Jennings as chief product officer (CPO).

David Bennett has joined Virgin Care as chair.

Juliet Bauer was this month formally named UK managing director of digital healthcare provider LIVI.

James Ormonde has been appointed business development director at Graphnet. Ormonde was previously sales director at Orion Health for 10 years.

Nicole McGlennon has been appointed managing director of the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN).

Katie Farrington has left NHSX and is now director at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

New Care has appointed Maria Weatherston from St Anne’s as regional support manager.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust (NCIC) – the new name for the now merged hospitals trust and partnership trust – has confirmed that chief executive Stephen Eames is stepping down after almost four years. He will instead expand his current work with the North Cumbria Integrated Care System, taking on the role of System Lead for north Cumbria health and care. The organisation is made up of health and care commissioners and providers including the North West Ambulance Service, NHS England, Cumbria County Council and others.