The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) has announced that Thom Lafferty will be the new chief executive. Currently the deputy chief executive and director of strategy at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare, he will start his new role in November. PAHT provides 414 general and acute beds at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Its 4,000 staff are responsible for the accident and emergency department, intensive care unit, maternity unit and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU at the Hamstel Road site in Harlow. They also provide outpatient a…