Kenneth Wesley Jarrold

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born 19 May 1948), is a British health service manager. Jarrold was educated at

St Lawrence College, Ramsgate St Lawrence College is a co-educational independent school situated in Ramsgate, Kent and has been established as a "public school" ever since it was founded. History The college was founded in 1879 as South Eastern College (colours: gold ...

, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained a first-class degree in history. He was

President of the Cambridge Union This is a list of presidents of Cambridge Union since its foundation in 1815. 1815–1916 It was resolved at a Private Business Meeting held on Monday, May 8, 1916, to hold no elections for terminal officers in the Easter Term, nor subsequentl ...

. From December 2011 to March 2016 he was Chair of

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust provides mental health services across Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire, England. It runs the Bungalows, Chebsey Close, Darwin Centre, Harplands Hospital, Florence House and Summer View in ...

. He was appointed chair of the Rebalancing Medicines Legislation and Pharmacy Regulation Programme Board in 2013. He lives at Stockton on Tees and

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. He joined the NHS in 1969 as a National Administrative Trainee having been awarded a first class honours degree in History at Cambridge University and having been President of the Cambridge Union Society. He was a chief executive of

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and

strategic health authorities Strategic health authorities (SHA) were part of the structure of the National Health Service (England), National Health Service in England between 2002 and 2013. Each SHA was responsible for managing performance, enacting directives and implementin ...

for 19 years. He was a board member of the

NHS Executive The National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems whic ...

and spent three years at national level as the Director of Human Resources and Deputy to the Chief Executive of the NHS in England. He is currently the chairman of

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health and disability Trusts in England employing more than 7,000 staff, serving a population of approximately 1.7 million, providing services across an ar ...

Publications

Other People's Shoes: 40 Questions for Leaders and Managers, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jarrold, Ken 1948 births Living people Administrators in the National Health Service Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge British civil servants Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English healthcare chief executives Presidents of the Cambridge Union