RSS feedsThe NHS's Connecting for Health has strengthened its team by appointing Kevin Jarrold as its new regional implementation director for the London cluster, while Paul Jones has been appointed to the role of chief technology officer.
Jarrold, former director of information management at University College London Hospital takes over the post that has been vacant since April following the suspension and subsequent resignation of the first London cluster RID, David Kwo.
Martin Forrest, the RID for the northeast cluster had been acting RID for London since Kwo’s departure.
Jones has also been appointed to the role of CFO and will head CfH’s technology office, taking overall responsibility for the business, systems and technical architecture for the National Programme for IT.
Jones was previously a systems integration director at Atos Origin and has focused on IT delivery projects for both the public and private sectors in his career. His clients have included the Ministry of Defence and the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs.
As well as the two appointments, CfH said that it had strengthened the structure of its cluster teams to 'ensure they have enhanced links to central functions such as service management and the technology office'. In a statement it said that this was intended to enable the five RIDs to 'concentrate on the deployment of systems'.
Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer for CfH, said: 'These appointments and initiatives aim to strengthen our capability as we enter a key stage of deployment of the National Programme for IT.'
