00:00:01 I'm Gareth Goodier and I'm the Chief Executive of Cambridge University Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust. In essence I'm the boss of the NHS part of this campus.
00:00:15 The twang in my accent might lead people to a different opinion, but I was born in England, and I was schooled here, and I went to Medical School in Sheffield. And I followed a Paediatric career for a number of years. To be honest I think in childhood the biggest challenge was getting a place at Medical School, you know, I wasn't necessarily the brightest. I worked hard. I wanted to kind of go out and challenge myself, and so I was looking literally around the world for areas where there were challenging experiences. I chose to go to the far north of Western Australia, the Kimberley, it's an area maybe four times England and Wales, but only say fifty thousand people. And delivering health care services there was a great challenge. It was a completely different sort of experience and - and I grew a lot as a person as well as a clinician in that environment.
00:01:10 So eventually I became the Regional Director responsible for managing the whole of the Kimberley, came back to England to be Chief Executive of the Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust in Chelsea. I was approached by the search team for this job, and I came here.
00:01:31 I do think there's a spiritual journey in life too, and that not many people give themselves enough time and space to be in touch with their soul. One of the reasons that I went to the Kimberley was a personal commitment to really get to know myself. So no television, one fairly boring radio station, lots of parties, lots of hedonism, but none of the commercial sort of activities. But enough space and time to really understand yourself. It took me until I was probably about twenty-seven before I felt I had that connection. And I've never really lost that since.
00:02:15 Well I think without any shadow of a doubt the greatest influence on my life is my father. He just worked hard and he was a decent guy. His employees loved him and he was a - he was a great man. So I think he taught me the work ethic and you know honesty and decency, integrity, those sorts of things. I would like to see myself staying here for about a decade, but I want to write some books and I want to, you know, devote my time to some other things in life, you know. I've given most of my life to health services, but there are other aspects of my life I'd like to develop. But a bit of - the ability to lie-in in the morning, I would appreciate that.
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Gareth Goodier
Dr. Gareth Goodier
I'm Gareth Goodier and I'm the Chief Executive of Cambridge University Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust. In essence I'm the boss of the NHS part of this campus.
The twang in my accent might lead people to a different opinion, but I was born in England, and I was schooled here, and I went to Medical School in Sheffield. And I followed a Paediatric career for a number of years. To be honest I think in childhood the biggest challenge was getting a place at Medical School, you know, I wasn't necessarily the brightest. I worked hard. I wanted to kind of go out and challenge myself, and so I was looking literally around the world for areas where there were challenging experiences. I chose to go to the far north of Western Australia, the Kimberley, it's an area maybe four times England and Wales, but only say fifty thousand people. And delivering health care services there was a great challenge. It was a completely different sort of experience and - and I grew a lot as a person as well as a clinician in that environment.
So eventually I became the Regional Director responsible for managing the whole of the Kimberley, came back to England to be Chief Executive of the Royal Brompton and Harefield Trust in Chelsea. I was approached by the search team for this job, and I came here.
I do think there's a spiritual journey in life too, and that not many people give themselves enough time and space to be in touch with their soul. One of the reasons that I went to the Kimberley was a personal commitment to really get to know myself. So no television, one fairly boring radio station, lots of parties, lots of hedonism, but none of the commercial sort of activities. But enough space and time to really understand yourself. It took me until I was probably about twenty-seven before I felt I had that connection. And I've never really lost that since.
Well I think without any shadow of a doubt the greatest influence on my life is my father. He just worked hard and he was a decent guy. His employees loved him and he was a - he was a great man. So I think he taught me the work ethic and you know honesty and decency, integrity, those sorts of things. I would like to see myself staying here for about a decade, but I want to write some books and I want to, you know, devote my time to some other things in life, you know. I've given most of my life to health services, but there are other aspects of my life I'd like to develop. But a bit of - the ability to lie-in in the morning, I would appreciate that.
ENDS
As Chief Executive at Addenbrookes Hospital, Gareth Goodier is at the top of the ladder, he advises, "I do think there's a spiritual journey in life too, and that not many people give themselves enough time and space to be in touch with their soul."
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