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Henrik Hanssen (né Lövborg) MBBS, BSc, MD, FRCS, is a senior consultant and current CEO of Holby General Hospital. He assumed the role after Guy Self stepped down in 2015.
Time at Holby City Hospital (2010-)
He joined the hospital the new joint Director of Surgery in 2011, 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.
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.
Interference in the ED (2011-)
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.
In January 2016, Hanssen was present at 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.
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.
Behind the scenes
Guy Henry has become one of Casualty's most frequent guest actors from Holby City.
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 another two appearances on 8 and 21 May 2016.
The episode "Holby Sin City" was non-canon, and therefore isn't included in the above biography. In the episode, Hanssen came to check up on the ED during a night shift. Due to the fact that neither Clinical Lead Connie Beauchamp or Deputy Zoe Hanna were on shift, he saw it as the perfect opportunity to monitor the staff, and ensure that the ED ran smoothly. After Robyn inadvertently volunteered to be under the watchful eye of Hanssen, she was paired up with Ethan in an attempt to clear the corridors which were quickly filling with patients due to the lack of staff. During the treatment of "Clyde", a mysterious patient, Hanssen persistently ordered that Dylan and the others mustn't resuscitate him, as he had a DNR. However Hanssen called for a vote and Robyn said that they should incubate him. After her shift, Hanssen applauded Robyn's hard work.
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