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| + | |parents = [[Elizabet Hanssen]]<br>[[Anders Lövborg]] |
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| − | |firstdate=12 February 2011 |
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| + | |relatives = [[Henrik Hanssen's uncle|Maternal uncle]] |
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| − | |lastnoformat = [[Series 33]], [[Episode 36 (series 33)|Episode 36]] |
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| + | |occupation = [[Consultant]] [[general surgery|general surgeon]] |
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| − | |lastdate=25 May 2019 |
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| + | |former_occupation = [[Chief executive officer]] |
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| + | |former_occupation2 = [[Director of surgery]] |
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| + | |placeofwork = [[Holby City Hospital]] |
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| + | |former_placeofwork = [[Colchester Royal Infirmary]] |
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| − | |occupation=Consultant general surgeon (2011-)<br>Chief Executive Officer (2011-13, 2015-16, 2017-2018, 2018-)<br>Deputy Clinical Lead of Keller Ward (2018) |
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| + | |firstdate = 19 October 2010 |
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| − | |parents=Anders Lövborg<br>Elizabet Hanssen |
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| + | |holby_city = [[Series 13 (Holby City)|13]] • [[Series 14 (Holby City)|14]] • [[Series 15 (Holby City)|15]] • [[Series 17 (Holby City)|17]] • [[Series 18 (Holby City)|18]] • [[Series 19 (Holby City)|19]] • [[Series 20 (Holby City)|20]] • [[Series 21 (Holby City)|21]] • [[Series 22 (Holby City)|22]] |
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| − | }}'''Henrik Love Hanssen''' ({{Abbr|né|name at birth}} '''Lövborg''') <small>MBBS, BSc, MD, FRCS,</small> is a [[Consultant|senior consultant]] in general surgery, former Director of Surgery and the current Chief Executive Officer of [[Holby City Hospital]]. He assumed the role after [[Guy Self]] stepped down in 2015 and was briefly replaced by [[Ric Griffin]] at the end of 2016 and [[hc:Abigail Tate|Abigail Tate]] in 2018. |
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| + | '''Henrik Love Hanssen''' (né '''Lövborg''') is a [[consultant]] [[general surgery|general surgeon]] who works at [[Holby City Hospital]]. He joined the hospital in [[October]] [[2010]] as the new joint [[director of surgery]], serving alongside [[cardiothoracic surgery|cardiothoracic surgeon]] [[Connie Beauchamp]]. |
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| + | == Biography == |
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| − | During his time at the hospital, he has visited the ED on multiple occasions, most recently after the helicopter crash in August 2016. His other visits include the stolen drugs incident earlier that year and in 2011 when a new position of the ED's [[Clinical Lead]] was offered. |
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| + | === Medical career prior to Holby === |
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| + | Hanssen was the youngest surgeon to become a [[consultant]] in the [[United Kingdom]] in 25 years. Prior to his transfer to [[Holby City Hospital]], he elevated two NHS hospital trusts to [[foundation trust]] status. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") |
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+ | === Transfer to Holby City Hospital === |
| + | {{Quote|Leaving the past behind is difficult. It can be bewildering — frightening even — but it's also vital. It's what keeps us alive. So we must look to the future; we must move forwards. It isn't going to be easy, but it's time for a change.|Hanssen's first speech to his new staff. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]")}} |
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| − | He joined the hospital the new joint Director of Surgery in 2010, working alongside [[Connie Beauchamp]]. In a meeting with the hospital board, he criticised Connie's plan to purchase a new MRI scanner for the cardiothoracic ward as being self-serving and naive. He later informed the staff that budget cuts and redundancies would have to be made for the good of the hospital, which was in a fraught economic climate. |
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| + | In [[October]] [[2010]], [[Connie Beauchamp]] was appointed as Holby City Hospital's new [[Director of Surgery]], and the Holby City Hospital board decided, following the tenures of [[Ric Griffin]] and [[Michael Spence]] as joint [[Director of surgery|directors of surgery]], that having two directors was beneficial. However, the [[strategic health authority]] saw Connie as an "unknown quantity" and issued the hospital with an ultimatum — accept Hanssen as their choice for joint director of surgery with [[Connie Beauchamp]] and make efficiencies or close half of the hospital's wards and merge them with [[St James' Hospital]]. |
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| + | Ultimately, Hanssen was selected, and he and Connie were faced with making at least 5% of the hospital's staff redundant ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") in order to save around £200,000. Hanssen proposed making Ric Griffin redundant, but Connie was vehemently opposed to the idea and wanted to avoid cutting staffing levels. However, Connie eventually conceded that redundancies were essential, and Hanssen allowed her to make the final decision on who was let go; she ultimately decided to spare Ric and dismissed six [[nurse]]s instead. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Short Straw]]") |
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| − | After Connie's resignation from Holby at the start of 2011, Hanssen became the sole Director of Surgery. In March 2011, after attempting to move all Upper-GI surgical cases from Keller ward to St James' Hospital, undermining Ric in the process and causing Ric to form a mutiny with fellow members of staff, Hanssen offered to operate on Ric in a risky bid to remove his terminal cancer, as an apology. |
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| + | In [[November]], while Connie was in [[London]] visiting her sick [[William Chase|father]], Hanssen carried out operational audits and devised a new discharge policy that would halve the number of used ward beds in order to save money. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Betrayal]]", "[[The Most Wonderful Time of the Year]]") He also found that [[Elliot Hope]] was underperforming; he warned Connie that, if Elliot failed to improve, he would be made redundant. Connie was keen to show Hanssen that Elliot was still at the top of his game, but Hanssen later learned that Elliot had lied to one of [[Erica O'Hanlon|his patients]] about their [[Ruby O'Hanlon|child]] still being alive. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Betrayal]]") |
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| − | In 2016 he received a phone call informing him that his family needed him back in Sweden. He resigned later on in the day and left the Hospital in the capable hands of Ric Griffin, who took up the role of acting CEO. After returning the following spring, he assumed the role as CEO once again. |
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| + | On [[7 December]], Elliot was scheduled to perform a [[Nuss procedure]] — a highly expensive operation — but Connie's patience started to wear thin when Elliot refused to discharge a patient named [[Emily Evans|Emily]] who he deemed as being vulnerable. When Elliot walked out of the Nuss procedure and prioritised Emily when she was readmitted as an emergency, Connie voiced her concerns to Hanssen about the effect of Elliot's job on his health and suggested that "the kindest thing to do [would] be to reconsider his position". ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Losing Game (series 13)|Losing Game]]") Consequently, Hanssen arranged for Elliot to undergo a stress test. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Lying Kind]]") |
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| − | In December 2017, his son [[hc:Fredrik Johanssen|Fredrik]] went on a shooting spree at the hospital, critically injuring members of staff and even killing one. Hanssen tried to reason with him but Fredrik was ultimately shot dead by armed police. Grief-stricken and consumed with guilt, he stepped down as CEO again. After the resignation of his replacement Abigail Tate and the scandal involving [[hc:John Gaskell|John Gaskell]], he accepted the position of CEO once again. |
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| − | ==Interferences in the ED (2011-)== |
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| − | In 2011, Hanssen interfered in the ED when a new position of Clinical Lead was offered, and [[Nick Jordan]] and [[Miriam Turner]] were competing for it. Eventually, he suggested that they both apply for a single Clinical Lead post. |
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| + | As a result of the new discharge policies, Connie's father William was discharged ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Most Wonderful Time of the Year]]") and readmitted on [[25 December|Christmas Day]] with a [[pleural effusion]]; he was later diagnosed with stage-four [[lung cancer]]. Later, Hanssen confronted Connie after she pressured the family of a [[Sunil Chiddy|patient]] into agreeing to organ donation and went against protocol; sick of the cuts and redundancies, Connie promptly resigned and warned Hanssen that it would have been a "huge" mistake to get rid of Elliot. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Snow Queens]]") |
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| − | In January 2016, Hanssen was present at [[Ben "Lofty" Chiltern|Lofty]]'s interview for his band 6 promotion. Although just observing, he made Lofty feel more nervous, but Lofty got the job in the end. On the same day, the hospital was on a black alert, and Hanssen was keeping Connie and the rest of the staff updated on the situation throughout their shift. At the end of the day, he praised Connie's decisions. |
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| + | === Hospital shooting === |
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| − | In May 2016, Hanssen once again visited the ED on the day new consultant [[Elle Gardner]] was due to have her first shift. She was late, and Hanssen made a bet with Connie that she'd be on time, but she ended up being well over an hour late. After Elle's eventful day which involved her getting taken hostage, she went outside for a cigarette where she spoke with Hanssen, an old friend of hers. He told her that he would hope that if she had any issues with the department to let him know. A couple of weeks later, Hanssen went to check up on how Elle was finding work in the ED. |
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| + | On [[5 December]] [[2017]], Hanssen oversaw the transfer of the equipment of the eminent [[neurosurgery|neurosurgeon]] and close friend [[John Gaskell]] to a basement-level [[wet laboratory]] after appointing him as the hospital's [[director of surgical innovation]]. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Group Animal - Part One]]") Later in the day, after Gaskell introduced Hanssen, [[Sacha Levy|Sacha]] and [[Essie Harrison|Essie]] to [[Laszlo Furz]], whose [[motor neuron disease]] he claimed to have cured, they were informed of a power outage and a gunman on [[AAU]], and Hanssen ordered for the hospital to be put on lockdown. Outside the lab, the medics discovered that [[Jac Naylor|Jac]] had been shot in the back, and they were forced to use basic equipment to treat her. Despite Sacha's objections, Hanssen supported Gaskell's suggestion of using a haemostatic patch to fix one of Jac's major blood vessels. |
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| + | As Hanssen attempted to have equipment delivered to the basement, Gaskell informed Hanssen that [[Fredrik Johanssen|Fredrik]] had been identified as the shooter. Determined to stop his son, Hanssen left his colleagues and proceeded to search for Fredrik. On [[Darwin]], Hanssen was horrified to discover that Fredrik had shot [[Oliver Valentine|Ollie]] in the head as he was operating on [[David Hopkins|David]], and [[Roxanna MacMillan|Roxanna]] urged him to stop Fredrik before he could harm anyone else. |
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| − | In June, Hanssen visited the ED to inform Connie that the press were about to publish an article on the hospital as a patient had gone to them claiming her pills had been stolen the previous week. Connie put it down to the fact the woman must have misplaced them and brushed off his concerns, claiming she had more important things to do. Hanssen later spoke to Elle and explained that the trust had got involved too and were looking for someone to blame and Elle soon figured out he meant Connie, implying her job could be in danger if she failed to address the issue. Elle later discovered the pills in [[Charlie Fairhead|Charlie]]'s locker after suspecting him, and when her and Rita went to Connie, she was apprehensive to report it to Hanssen. Elle tried to convince her to for the good of the department and people in it but she refused and asked her to leave, unaware that Elle was trying to help her following the hints given to her by Hanssen earlier should Connie decide not to act on it. Elle later caught Hanssen walking out of the ED under the assumption tha he knew and inadvertently revealed that it was Charlie to his surprise. This ultimatley left Rita with no other choice but to put Charlie on special leave, whilst Connie blamed Elle and turned the department against her. |
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| + | On [[Keller]], Hanssen managed to prevent Fredrik from breaking into the theatre room where the ward's occupants were hiding and confronted him. Once an armed police unit arrived at the scene, Hanssen attempted to negotiate with his son, but Fredrik asserted that he did not want anything from him anymore and loudly declared that he would decide how the situation ended. As the two began sizing each other up, with Fredrik asserting that Hanssen was not a part of the hospital's "family" and proclaiming that he was there to "end it", the police shot Fredrik in the chest, instantly killing him. A hysterical Hanssen, desperate to save his son, rushed Fredrik into theatre and demanded the lifts be turned back on, but he eventually realised that Fredrik was dead and wept. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Group Animal - Part Two]]") |
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| − | [[File:S31E01_195.jpg|thumb|Hanssen discussing [[Grace Beauchamp|Grace]]'s scan results with [[Elle Gardner|Elle]] and [[Charlie Fairhead|Charlie]].]] |
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| − | In August, Elle contacted Hanssen to inform him of Connie's car crash. He later visited the ED and went over to Charlie's party to inform him that Connie had been in a car accident and was being treated in the ED. Already shocked at the day's events, Hanssen was horrified when the helicopter that Grace was in crashed outside the ED, causing damage to the entrance and ambulance bay. He informed Charlie that he would be closing the department and diverting all cases. As Charlie was helping the injured over at the pub, Hanssen instructed him to deal with the press but Charlie angrily told him that his skills were needed elsewhere. Later in the day after Connie and Grace had been initially admitted and treated, Hanssen showed Elle Grace's head scan results showing that she had sustained a subdural haematoma and her life was in danger. |
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| + | == Personality == |
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| − | In May 2019, Hanssen visited the ED to bid farewell to Elle, who was leaving the department for a new job, and to confront Connie about the department's poor performance. Connie offered to give him a proposal she had written, but the hospital board ultimately decided to bring in a [[Ciaran Coulson|troubleshooter]]. ([[Casualty|CAS]]: [[Series 33]], [[Episode 36 (series 33)|Episode 36]]) |
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| + | When Hanssen was appointed as [[Holby City Hospital]]'s joint [[director of surgery]], his affectless and clinical approach to management provoked resentment from some of his new-found colleagues. Following the death of popular surgeon [[Linden Cullen]], Hanssen viewed his funeral as an excuse for some to malinger. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") When Hanssen was tasked with selecting a consultant for redundancy, he favoured [[Ric Griffin]] due to him not practising as a surgeon at that time, despite his idleness being a result of him receiving [[cancer]] treatment. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Short Straw]]") He had a tendency to not mince his words and be incredibly scathing towards senior colleagues of his. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") |
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| − | [[Guy Henry]] plays Henrik Hanssen in ''[[Holby City]]'' as a regular character, and in ''[[Casualty]]'' as a crossover character. Although his appearances in ''Casualty'' are rare, he generally appears in episodes which see a major event occur in the hospital, such as when the hospital was put on a black alert in the 2016 [[series 30]] episode "[[Black Alert]]". He returned for further appearances in May and June that year. It was confirmed in June that Henry would reprise his role as the character during the 30th anniversary episode at the start of [[series 31]]. In February 2019, it was announced that Henry would reprise his role as Hanssen for a crossover with ''Holby City'' in March. |
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| + | Conversely, outside of professional relationships, Hanssen sometimes showed a softer side. For example, [[sister]] [[Donna Jackson]] warned her niece [[Mia Barron|Mia]] that Hanssen "eats children" and told her to hide from him. However, when Hanssen later discovered Mia, he fixed her teddy bear's loose eye. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Queen's Gambit]]") |
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| − | The episode "[[Holby Sin City]]" is non-canon, and therefore isn't included in the above biography. This is Hanssen's first appearance since series 25. In the episode, Hanssen comes to check up on the ED during a night shift. During the episode, Hanssen clashes with Dylan and Robyn over whether they should resuscitate a patient. However, when Hanssen calls for a vote, he's outnumbered when they say that he should be intubated. After the shift, Hanssen applauds Robyn's hard work. |
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| − | Hanssen first appeared in the [[series 25]] episode "[[Duty of Care (series 25)|Duty of Care]]". After this, he made no further appearances until the end of [[series 29]], at which point he began making more frequent guest appearances. |
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| + | === Professional === |
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| + | ==== [[Connie Beauchamp]] ==== |
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| + | Connie was unaware of the decision to split the role of [[director of surgery]] and appoint Hanssen as her peer, so she was galled when she found Hanssen in her office uninvited. Her feelings of resentment towards Hanssen only intensified when he took over the care of [[Paddy Brenton|one of her patients]] and harshly criticised her expenditure proposal as being financially unrealistic. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") On the orders of the [[strategic health authority]], Connie and Hanssen were tasked to save around £200,000 in expenditure. Hanssen saw redundancies as a "clear option" and proposed letting go of [[Ric Griffin]], but Connie vehemently opposed the suggestion. Despite fruitlessly searching for alternatives and requesting a delay, Connie conceded that redundancies were the only viable means of meeting hospital budget cuts and volunteered to make the decision. However, instead of making one consultant redundant, she decided to target six [[nurse]]s. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Short Straw]]") |
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| + | ==== [[Michael Spence]] ==== |
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| + | When Hanssen arrived at Holby City Hospital, he accused Michael of attempting to "fleece vulnerable patients" out of their money by encouraging them to opt for treatment on [[Holby Care]]. Following the death of consultant [[Linden Cullen]], Michael volunteered to take his place on [[AAU]], ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") but Hanssen immediately took issue with him neglecting his duties on the ward to concentrate on private practice; Michael argued that the revenue generated by Holby Care was helping alleviate hospital budget cuts. However, after Michael failed to diagnose a tumour in his [[Lloyd Fisher|private patient]], Hanssen pointed out that his mistake would cost the [[Holby City NHS Trust|trust]] more than the revenue the patient's surgery generated. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Short Straw]]") |
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| + | In November 2010, Michael convinced administrator [[Sheena Clore]] to access Hanssen's personal files to uncover details about his hospital deficit strategy; she was caught and promptly suspended. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[My No. 1 Fan]]") |
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| + | ==== [[Ric Griffin]] ==== |
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| + | When Hanssen and Connie were faced with making redundancies to meet budget cuts, Hanssen proposed making Ric redundant due to him not carrying out his surgical duties on the grounds of him receiving [[cancer]] treatment; Connie was completely opposed to the idea and ultimately decided to let go of six nurses instead. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Short Straw]]") In [[November]] [[2010]], after Ric treated a [[Ella Brody|young girl]] who was later admitted with suspected [[measles]], Hanssen forced Ric to receive precautionary treatment due to his weakened [[immune system]]. After Ric tested negative, he informed Hanssen that he had decided to go on sick leave and urged him to spare Keller "if [his] axe [had] to fall". ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Tough, Love]]") |
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| + | After making a joke about Hanssen while he was in earshot of her, Jac believed that Hanssen "hated" her. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Tough, Love]]") After Ric Griffin went on sick leave, Jac became Keller's acting consultant. However, the position was not permanent, and Jac was aggrieved at Hanssen appointing [[Keira Balfour]] as the locum consultant; Jac demanded [[Mark Williams]] to interview all of the prospective candidates, including her. Despite describing her as "arrogant, aggressive, stubborn, obstinate and obnoxious", Hanssen saw Jac as the more cost-effective candidate and gave her the locum consultant post. Jac was initially delighted, but Michael Spence warned her that her position at the hospital was no longer secure. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Queen's Gambit]]") |
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| + | * When Hanssen first arrived at Holby, he earned nicknames such as "The Angel of Death", "Horrid Henrik", "Henrik the Heron" and "The Slasher". ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[The Short Straw]]", "[[Snow Queens]]") |
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| + | * He believes the kidneys are the body's most important organs. ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Shifts]]") |
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| + | * He detests tomatoes and considers them "the Devil's fruit". ([[Holby City|HC]]: "[[Tough, Love]]") |
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Revision as of 11:27, 12 June 2020
Henrik Love Hanssen (né Lövborg) is a consultant general surgeon who works at Holby City Hospital. He joined the hospital in October 2010 as the new joint director of surgery, serving alongside cardiothoracic surgeon Connie Beauchamp.
Biography
Medical career prior to Holby
Hanssen was the youngest surgeon to become a consultant in the United Kingdom in 25 years. Prior to his transfer to Holby City Hospital, he elevated two NHS hospital trusts to foundation trust status. (HC: "Shifts")
Transfer to Holby City Hospital
| “ | Leaving the past behind is difficult. It can be bewildering — frightening even — but it's also vital. It's what keeps us alive. So we must look to the future; we must move forwards. It isn't going to be easy, but it's time for a change. | „ |
| — Hanssen's first speech to his new staff. (HC: "Shifts") | ||
In October 2010, Connie Beauchamp was appointed as Holby City Hospital's new Director of Surgery, and the Holby City Hospital board decided, following the tenures of Ric Griffin and Michael Spence as joint directors of surgery, that having two directors was beneficial. However, the strategic health authority saw Connie as an "unknown quantity" and issued the hospital with an ultimatum — accept Hanssen as their choice for joint director of surgery with Connie Beauchamp and make efficiencies or close half of the hospital's wards and merge them with St James' Hospital.
Ultimately, Hanssen was selected, and he and Connie were faced with making at least 5% of the hospital's staff redundant (HC: "Shifts") in order to save around £200,000. Hanssen proposed making Ric Griffin redundant, but Connie was vehemently opposed to the idea and wanted to avoid cutting staffing levels. However, Connie eventually conceded that redundancies were essential, and Hanssen allowed her to make the final decision on who was let go; she ultimately decided to spare Ric and dismissed six nurses instead. (HC: "The Short Straw")
In November, while Connie was in London visiting her sick father, Hanssen carried out operational audits and devised a new discharge policy that would halve the number of used ward beds in order to save money. (HC: "Betrayal", "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year") He also found that Elliot Hope was underperforming; he warned Connie that, if Elliot failed to improve, he would be made redundant. Connie was keen to show Hanssen that Elliot was still at the top of his game, but Hanssen later learned that Elliot had lied to one of his patients about their child still being alive. (HC: "Betrayal")
On 7 December, Elliot was scheduled to perform a Nuss procedure — a highly expensive operation — but Connie's patience started to wear thin when Elliot refused to discharge a patient named Emily who he deemed as being vulnerable. When Elliot walked out of the Nuss procedure and prioritised Emily when she was readmitted as an emergency, Connie voiced her concerns to Hanssen about the effect of Elliot's job on his health and suggested that "the kindest thing to do [would] be to reconsider his position". (HC: "Losing Game") Consequently, Hanssen arranged for Elliot to undergo a stress test. (HC: "The Lying Kind")
As a result of the new discharge policies, Connie's father William was discharged (HC: "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year") and readmitted on Christmas Day with a pleural effusion; he was later diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer. Later, Hanssen confronted Connie after she pressured the family of a patient into agreeing to organ donation and went against protocol; sick of the cuts and redundancies, Connie promptly resigned and warned Hanssen that it would have been a "huge" mistake to get rid of Elliot. (HC: "Snow Queens")
Hospital shooting
On 5 December 2017, Hanssen oversaw the transfer of the equipment of the eminent neurosurgeon and close friend John Gaskell to a basement-level wet laboratory after appointing him as the hospital's director of surgical innovation. (HC: "Group Animal - Part One") Later in the day, after Gaskell introduced Hanssen, Sacha and Essie to Laszlo Furz, whose motor neuron disease he claimed to have cured, they were informed of a power outage and a gunman on AAU, and Hanssen ordered for the hospital to be put on lockdown. Outside the lab, the medics discovered that Jac had been shot in the back, and they were forced to use basic equipment to treat her. Despite Sacha's objections, Hanssen supported Gaskell's suggestion of using a haemostatic patch to fix one of Jac's major blood vessels.
As Hanssen attempted to have equipment delivered to the basement, Gaskell informed Hanssen that Fredrik had been identified as the shooter. Determined to stop his son, Hanssen left his colleagues and proceeded to search for Fredrik. On Darwin, Hanssen was horrified to discover that Fredrik had shot Ollie in the head as he was operating on David, and Roxanna urged him to stop Fredrik before he could harm anyone else.
On Keller, Hanssen managed to prevent Fredrik from breaking into the theatre room where the ward's occupants were hiding and confronted him. Once an armed police unit arrived at the scene, Hanssen attempted to negotiate with his son, but Fredrik asserted that he did not want anything from him anymore and loudly declared that he would decide how the situation ended. As the two began sizing each other up, with Fredrik asserting that Hanssen was not a part of the hospital's "family" and proclaiming that he was there to "end it", the police shot Fredrik in the chest, instantly killing him. A hysterical Hanssen, desperate to save his son, rushed Fredrik into theatre and demanded the lifts be turned back on, but he eventually realised that Fredrik was dead and wept. (HC: "Group Animal - Part Two")
Personality
When Hanssen was appointed as Holby City Hospital's joint director of surgery, his affectless and clinical approach to management provoked resentment from some of his new-found colleagues. Following the death of popular surgeon Linden Cullen, Hanssen viewed his funeral as an excuse for some to malinger. (HC: "Shifts") When Hanssen was tasked with selecting a consultant for redundancy, he favoured Ric Griffin due to him not practising as a surgeon at that time, despite his idleness being a result of him receiving cancer treatment. (HC: "The Short Straw") He had a tendency to not mince his words and be incredibly scathing towards senior colleagues of his. (HC: "Shifts")
Conversely, outside of professional relationships, Hanssen sometimes showed a softer side. For example, sister Donna Jackson warned her niece Mia that Hanssen "eats children" and told her to hide from him. However, when Hanssen later discovered Mia, he fixed her teddy bear's loose eye. (HC: "Queen's Gambit")
Relationships
Professional
Connie Beauchamp
Connie was unaware of the decision to split the role of director of surgery and appoint Hanssen as her peer, so she was galled when she found Hanssen in her office uninvited. Her feelings of resentment towards Hanssen only intensified when he took over the care of one of her patients and harshly criticised her expenditure proposal as being financially unrealistic. (HC: "Shifts") On the orders of the strategic health authority, Connie and Hanssen were tasked to save around £200,000 in expenditure. Hanssen saw redundancies as a "clear option" and proposed letting go of Ric Griffin, but Connie vehemently opposed the suggestion. Despite fruitlessly searching for alternatives and requesting a delay, Connie conceded that redundancies were the only viable means of meeting hospital budget cuts and volunteered to make the decision. However, instead of making one consultant redundant, she decided to target six nurses. (HC: "The Short Straw")
Michael Spence
When Hanssen arrived at Holby City Hospital, he accused Michael of attempting to "fleece vulnerable patients" out of their money by encouraging them to opt for treatment on Holby Care. Following the death of consultant Linden Cullen, Michael volunteered to take his place on AAU, (HC: "Shifts") but Hanssen immediately took issue with him neglecting his duties on the ward to concentrate on private practice; Michael argued that the revenue generated by Holby Care was helping alleviate hospital budget cuts. However, after Michael failed to diagnose a tumour in his private patient, Hanssen pointed out that his mistake would cost the trust more than the revenue the patient's surgery generated. (HC: "The Short Straw")
In November 2010, Michael convinced administrator Sheena Clore to access Hanssen's personal files to uncover details about his hospital deficit strategy; she was caught and promptly suspended. (HC: "My No. 1 Fan")
Ric Griffin
When Hanssen and Connie were faced with making redundancies to meet budget cuts, Hanssen proposed making Ric redundant due to him not carrying out his surgical duties on the grounds of him receiving cancer treatment; Connie was completely opposed to the idea and ultimately decided to let go of six nurses instead. (HC: "The Short Straw") In November 2010, after Ric treated a young girl who was later admitted with suspected measles, Hanssen forced Ric to receive precautionary treatment due to his weakened immune system. After Ric tested negative, he informed Hanssen that he had decided to go on sick leave and urged him to spare Keller "if [his] axe [had] to fall". (HC: "Tough, Love")
Jac Naylor
After making a joke about Hanssen while he was in earshot of her, Jac believed that Hanssen "hated" her. (HC: "Tough, Love") After Ric Griffin went on sick leave, Jac became Keller's acting consultant. However, the position was not permanent, and Jac was aggrieved at Hanssen appointing Keira Balfour as the locum consultant; Jac demanded Mark Williams to interview all of the prospective candidates, including her. Despite describing her as "arrogant, aggressive, stubborn, obstinate and obnoxious", Hanssen saw Jac as the more cost-effective candidate and gave her the locum consultant post. Jac was initially delighted, but Michael Spence warned her that her position at the hospital was no longer secure. (HC: "Queen's Gambit")
Trivia
- When Hanssen first arrived at Holby, he earned nicknames such as "The Angel of Death", "Horrid Henrik", "Henrik the Heron" and "The Slasher". (HC: "The Short Straw", "Snow Queens")
- He believes the kidneys are the body's most important organs. (HC: "Shifts")
- He detests tomatoes and considers them "the Devil's fruit". (HC: "Tough, Love")
Behind the scenes
Guy Henry initially portrayed Henrik Hanssen in Holby City from October 2010 to October 2013.
