A hospital manager is going back to his roots and his radiography career because he misses face-to-face patient contact.
Bill Langley joined Northampton General Hospital as a radiographer in 1992. He worked his way up the ladder to manage several departments at his hospital, including radiology, A&E, orthopaedics, vascular studies, anaesthetics and general surgery.
Bill – who currently lives in Northampton but is relocating to Guernsey – will swap his team of 500 and £40 million budget for a team of 14 at a non-NHS hospital in Guernsey. Here, he will return to his former passion of diagnostic radiography.
During the course of his career, Bill has acquired a catalogue of achievements, including pioneering a campaign to get MRI scanning for breast cancer in Northamptonshire in 1994 and overseeing the building of new orthopaedics ward in 2001.
Of his decision to revert back to radiography, Bill commented: "I will be going back to my roots. I've enjoyed what I've done and have been blessed in working at Northampton, but I really want that face-to-face patient contact again and the chance to help people more directly."
Bill's attitude to patient care has always been simple: "Across all of the departments I have worked in, the key question has always been: 'how would I like my Mum to be treated if she was the patient?'
"I find if you get that right, the rest follows."
