{"entity":{"id":"richard-mitchell","kind":"person","name":"Richard Mitchell","aka":[],"tldr":"NHS chief executive who leads University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, the hospital partner of the University of Leicester's Leicester Cancer Research Centre.","summary":"Richard Mitchell is Chief Executive of University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, the acute hospital trust for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and the clinical partner of the University of Leicester's Leicester Cancer Research Centre. The trust's board page lists him at the head of an executive team that includes Deputy Chief Executive Simon Barton, Medical Director Gang Xu, Group Chief Nurse Julie Hogg, Chief Operating Officer Helen Hendley and Chief Financial Officer Lee Bond. The University of Leicester's own centre pages could not be read at the time of checking; its Wikipedia coverage names Catrin Pritchard as deputy director of the centre.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust board members page","url":"https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk/about/board/members/"}],"tags":["leadership","hospital-management"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["leicester-cancer-research-centre"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chief Executive, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust","institutionId":"leicester-cancer-research-centre","specialisms":["NHS management","Hospital leadership"],"profiles":[{"label":"UHL Trust Board members page","url":"https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk/about/board/members/"}],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/richard-mitchell/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"leicester-cancer-research-centre","kind":"institution","name":"Leicester Cancer Research Centre / University Hospitals of Leicester","route":"/institutions/leicester-cancer-research-centre/"}]}}