Our newest Movers and Shakers includes a new chair of the Well being Knowledge Analysis Service (HDRS) and the appointment of the primary ever built-in care board (ICB) chief govt from a minority ethnic background.
Baroness Nicola Blackwood has been appointed as chair of the HDRS.
NHS England invited purposes for the inaugural chair and chief govt of the service in August and Zubir Ahmed, well being innovation minister, introduced Blackwood’s appointment on 25 November throughout a speech in London.
Blackwood is chair of Oxford College Innovation and Genomics England and serves on the boards of biotechnology firm BioNTech and funding fund RTW Biotech Alternatives.
Dr Bishoy Dimitri has joined Dedalus as chief scientific info officer (CCIO) and scientific lead for the UK and Eire.
He was beforehand CCIO at Oxford College Hospitals NHS Basis Belief and vice chair of the Digital Well being Networks CCIO Advisory Panel.
Dr Nnenna Osuji has been confirmed as chief govt of North East London Built-in Care Board (ICB).
She is becoming a member of from Royal Free London NHS Basis Belief, the place she serves as hospital chief govt for North Middlesex College Hospital and group providers.
Dame Linda Pollard has stepped down as chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority after simply 4 months within the position. She advised HSJ that she resigned because of the dying of her husband.
Frances O’Callaghan will depart her joint position at North Central London and North West London ICBs to develop into chief govt at NHS Blood and Transplant, simply two months after taking over the put up. She is because of transfer in February 2026.
South London and Maudsley NHS Basis Belief’s chief working officer, Ade Odunlade, took over as interim chief govt on 1 December 2025.
Former Conservative MP Andy Carter will joint Warrington and Halton Instructing Hospitals NHS Basis Belief (WHTH) subsequent yr.
He’s becoming a member of forward of a deliberate merger between WHTH and Bridgewater Neighborhood Healthcare FT in April 2026. Each organisations at the moment share a chief govt, Nik Khashu.
Matthew Shaw will take over as chief govt of St George’s, Epsom and St Helier College Hospitals and Well being Group in spring 2026.
He shall be leaving his job as chief govt of Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital for Youngsters NHS Basis Belief, which he has led since 2018.
Jackie Smith is departing as chair of the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Basis Belief on the finish of this yr, just a few days after its board is because of determine whether or not to agree a detailed partnership with both Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Belief, or the Royal Surrey/Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Basis Belief.
The Well being Basis has appointed Daniel Legislation as its new director of study. Legislation has been deputy director for technique at NHS England since 2022.
He just lately led evaluation for the federal government’s 10 yr well being plan and was secretariat for Lord Darzi’s impartial investigation into the NHS.
Ergéa, a pan-European healthcare firm specialising in diagnostic imaging and most cancers care, has appointed David Rolfe as Group chief govt and named Mark Graves as chief govt of Ergéa UK.
