A Freedom of Information request by news site The Hull Story, revealed Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust spent £18,477 on overnight stays for its interim chief executive Lyn Simpson and her team.

The trust ranks in bottom place in the acute trust league table and is among five included in an Intensive Recovery Programme.

Humber Health Partnership, which includes the trust, has been placed into Segment 5 of the National Oversight Framework.

A spokesperson for NHS Humber Health Partnership (HHP) said: ‘Last summer, our interim chief executive was asked by NHS England to step in and take a clear, open approach to understanding the scale of these long-standing issues.

‘Since then a small team, introduced with NHS England's support and made up of NHS secondees and senior leaders with decades of NHS leadership experience working in challenged organisations, has worked alongside clinicians across our hospitals and services to bring these issues together for the first time and develop the partnership's first clinically led improvement plan.

‘As a result, we have strengthened the voice of our clinicians in decision-making, ensuring those delivering care are shaping how services are run and strengthening patient safety.'

HHP said this month had marked its first consecutive three-month period without a clinical Never Event since the partnership's formation in 2024.

It said the temporary support was ‘now drawing to a close' as it moved onto the next phase of its delivery through the Intensive Recovery Programme.