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New appointments at NHS England

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NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens has confirmed a number of senior appointments to the organisation.

Dr Mahiben Maruthappu has been appointed to Stevens’s office as the first member of a new programme providing opportunities for early and mid-career clinicians and managers to work on national strategy and operations. Maruthappu is an academic foundation doctor at Imperial College London and chief innovation officer for TEDMED London.

Ian Dodge (pictured) is hired to the board as a national director, commissioning strategy. Dodge fills the vacant post created by the departure of Bill McCarthy, and his responsibilities will include leading the organisation’s work on national strategy, commissioning policy and analysis. Dodge joins NHS England from the Department of Health, where he is the director of the NHS Group and head of the policy profession.

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Jo Lenaghan, director of Strategy and Workforce Planning at Health Education England will take up a part-time four month secondment as project director for the NHS 5-year Forward View, alongside her continuing role as a director of HEE.

Andrew Ridley, managing director of North and East London Commissioning Support Unit will take up a secondment as programme director for the Better Care Fund. He will lead a small team drawn from NHS England, the Department of Health, the Department for Communities and Local Government and the Local Government Association. 

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