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The HSJ has learned more details about the recruitment process for applicants to the NHS England chief executive post. Candidates for the post face 10 hours and four sets of interviews as well as a full day of psychometric testing.
Candidates will face an initial interview with senior representatives from Number 10, the Treasury and the Cabinet Office, including Cabinet secretary Simon Case, and then a separate interview with NHS England and Improvement non-executive board members who are not represented on the final panel. This latter interview will take place in groups of three.
A final formal interview will follow, due to take place in the week commencing 19 July, with NHS England chair Lord David Prior, vice-chair David Roberts, NHS non-executive director and former Labour health minister Lord Ara Darzi, Department of Health and Social Care permanent secretary Chris Wormald, and Number 10 senior health adviser Sam Jones. Another NHSE NED, possibly Susan Kilsby, might be added to this panel.
HSJ understands that most – if not all – the interviews up to this stage will be conducted virtually. The candidate who successfully passes these interviews would then face confirmation interviews with the Health Secretary and Prime Minister.
HSJ understands the candidates for the role still include KPMG partner Mark Britnell, NHS Improvement chair Baroness Dido Harding, Northumbria Healthcare and former NHS Improvement chief Sir Jim Mackey, NHSE deputy chief executive Amanda Pritchard, and Leeds City Council chief executive Tom Riordan. HSJ sources indicate they are joined by Kevin Smith, president and CEO of the University Health Network in Canada, and that Ernst Kuipers, the leader of the Dutch Erasmus healthcare system, has also been in discussions about the role.
Source: HSJ, 1 July 2021
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Robert Ede writes that there are various reasons why Sajid Javid might consider delaying the Health and Care Bill.
The Bill is due to be given its first reading in parliament next week and NHS leaders remain keen to see the Bill become law before April next year. Last week’s NHS board meeting went as far as to say that any substantial delay ''could adversely impact’’ the NHS recovery. But is this true, asks Ede?
According to Ede, history from the 2000s suggests that big shifts in the NHS’s superstructure do not necessarily help to address core priorities such as waiting times, and can even be counterproductive. Efe writes that they can also drive political rows, typified by the ongoing debate over the new Integrated Care System boundaries, at a time when the NHS is phasing huge backlogs.
Additionally, Ede points out that as a newcomer, Javid is entitled to consider the Bill afresh and ask some basic questions – will it improve patient outcomes? Is it a public priority? Does the Bill make the NHS more accountable to the taxpayer? Ede argues that Javid should take the time to consider the answers.
Ede points out that even if the Bill were delayed the new structures would continue to exist in shadow form until April 2023. It might allow backlog recovery in areas such as mental health and cancer to become the focus for the entire NHS. Change and transformation capacity could be deployed towards other priorities – such as embedding digital medicine consistently and tackling health inequalities.
Ede concludes that by bringing the Bill forward in the Autumn, Javid could take his time to assess some of the more controversial parts of the Bill, such as strengthening ministerial oversight of the NHS, and ultimately make a more measured, considered judgement.
Source: Spectator, 29 June 2021
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A specially trained detection job has discovered a haul of illicit tobacco worth more than £250,000. Dany Dilan, who was caught with the illicit tobacco, has been handed a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to five counts relating to trademarks, tobacco packaging, and money laundering offences.
Source: My London, 30 June 2021
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Jersey’s States Assembly has agreed to new regulations which will see EU images on the packaging of tobacco products replaced with UK images. The move brings Jersey into line with the UK where UK images have been used since the UK left the EU. The new packaging will also include signposting to local Help 2 Quit stop smoking support services in Jersey and Guernsey.
There will be a transition period in place on cigarette and hand rolling products until 31st July 2022 where those products were imported before 1st January 2022. Other tobacco products which would have complied with previous regulations, imported before 31st July 2022, can be supplied until 31st July 2023.
Source: ITV, 30 June 2021
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The American Indian Commercial Tobacco Program is offering free culturally tailored coaching for those who want to quit smoking commercial tobacco. Native Americans currently have the highest rates of smoking in the country compared to other ethnic groups.
The new program offers up to 10 coaching calls with a dedicated Native American coach per quit attempt. If medically eligible, participants can sign up for eight weeks of nicotine patches, gum and lozenges or combinations of these medicines. The program is open to men, women, pregnant women, and youth and helps with quitting cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and electronic cigarettes.
In Anishinaabe culture, traditional tobacco is a sacred medicine used for prayer, ceremony, and offered as a gift.
Source: The Sault News, 30 June 2021
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