City hospital’s chief executive and chair recognised in King’s 2024 Honours.
Two officials from Milton Keynes University Hospital have been recognised in the King’s New Year’s Honours.
Chief executive Joe Harrison has been awarded a CBE for services to healthcare, while chair Heidi Travis receives the OBE for her work in palliative, neurological and bereavement care.
Joe Harrison has been chief executive at Milton Keynes Hospital for 12 years, having joined in February 2013. He has led a significant expansion of the hospital site which includes a new cancer and radiotherapy centre, academic centre, and same day emergency care centre. He is also national director of the NHS App.
Heidi Travis’ OBE award recognises her work as chief executive of the Sue Ryder charity. She has been acting chair since April 2024, joining the board as a non-executive director in March 2018.
“I am deeply grateful to all those I work with, and have worked with, since joining the NHS in 1988,” said Joe. “Every individual achievement in the NHS is built on the hard work, support and encouragement of many, many people. It is a great privilege to accept an honour like this, and I am profoundly humbled by it."
“I am delighted and humbled to have been nominated, and to accept this honour,” said Heidi. “The work Sue Ryder does is deeply meaningful and important to those at the end of their lives and to their families. It has been a privilege to be part of that work and to be able to take my experience of delivering good palliative and bereavement care into my NHS role.”
