Amanda Pritchard

"I really believe you make a different contribution in different roles in the NHS."

"I have made my contribution at the centre, and it is time for me to go back and run a big and exciting organisation."

"You could forget about the building and concentrate on just putting on a great show."

"But if the building starts falling down, you’d regret that decision."

"I think what’s been clear is that Wes and I have really tried to work closely in this much more ‘one team’ way over the past nine months, which was different to how things had worked in the past."

"I’ve done the job I needed to do, which was to lead the NHS through the pandemic, to lead my colleagues ."

"Through the real hard yards of recovery, stabilisation and gradual improvement and to put the foundations in place for the 10 year plan."

"We know the unacceptable violent and racist events in so many parts of the country will be affecting many of our staff, service users and their families."

"HPFT is a place where everyone is valued and respected racist behaviour and attitudes."

"Discrimination, have no place in HPFT or in wider society."

"The suffering of the people of Southport, and others touched by the violence there, is unfathomable."

"It will inevitably take a toll on those NHS staff involved in the response."

"I know from my time at Guy’s and St Thomas’ how hard incidents like this can be for those treating victims and supporting families."

"I can only imagine how much more affecting it has been for those treating children."

"We will make sure colleagues get any support they need."

"There are other things that have sustained the NHS."

"One of them is stoicism, that great British trait of carrying on through adversity."

"People coming from across the globe to become vital colleagues, with almost 200 nationalities represented in the NHS workforce today."

"The professionalism, too, of the NHS staff in Southport and elsewhere who are dealing with the consequences, and of course those in our police."

"The more that we can do to encourage vaccination."

"We will require both a reduction in the total number of people waiting and taking more people off the waiting list and treating them."

"This year, it’s really been about maturing and growing those services."

"The thing that we haven’t been able to do is fix some of the underlying capacity challenges."

"Given the level of demand on our services, and given that there is still clearly an underlying level of fragility in the service."

"We have reasonably regular reports of things like bits of ceilings that will develop a crack, sewage pipes that will break, CT scanners that will break down, all the normal wear and tear of a building."