Richard Jeavons, senior responsible owner for service
implementation in the NHS's £12.4bnNational Programme for IT (NPfIT)is
leaving for a different health service job.
He is one of a succession of senior responsible owners to leave
the NPfIT. Others who have left include
Richard Granger, formerly director general of NHS IT and senior
responsible owner, John Bacon, the Department of Health's director
of delivery and overall senior responsible owner for the NPfIT,
Aidan Halligan and John Pattison.
Only last month Jeavons was one of the key figures at a press
conference in Whitehall to announce details of an annual statement
on the costs of the NPfIT. Jeavons was seated next to the minister
in charge of the NPfIT, Ben Bradshaw.
Jeavons has been a much respected figure in the National
Programme. He is seen by senior executives in the NHS as credible,
pragmatic and realistic. He is a former chief executive of West
Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority and senior responsible owner
for the North East Cluster of NHS Connecting for Health, which runs
part of the NPfIT.
He is leaving as senior responsible owner and as director of IT
Service Implementation at NHS Connecting for Health. He has been
appointed chief executive at the
Independent
Reconfiguration Panel, which provides expertise on NHS service
change.
The panel was established in 2003 to provide advice to the
secretary of state for health on contested proposals for health
service change in England. It also offers support and advice to the
NHS and elsewhere on making changes.
The panel has announced the appointment of Jeavons on its
website where
it said it was "finalising commencement dates and a formal
announcement will be made in due course".
No announcement has yet been made on the website of
NHS Connecting for
Health. Its spokeswoman made no comment.
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