Ken Jarrold

Kenneth Wesley Jarrold CBE (born 19 May 1948), is a British health service manager.

Jarrold was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained a first-class degree in history.[1] He was President of the Cambridge Union.[2]

From December 2011 to March 2016 he was Chair of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.[3] He was appointed chair of the Rebalancing Medicines Legislation and Pharmacy Regulation Programme Board in 2013.[4]

He lives at Stockton on Tees and Newcastle upon Tyne.

He joined the NHS in 1969 as a National Administrative Trainee. He was a chief executive of district, regional and strategic health authorities for 19 years. He was a board member of the NHS Executive 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 Chair of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust[5] Council of Governors and Board of Directors. Ken will serve his last day at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust on 30 September 2023.

  1. ^ "JARROLD, Kenneth Wesley". Who's Who. Vol. 2023 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Ken Jarrold CBE".
  3. ^ "NEW CHAIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH TRUST". North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Decriminalisation of dispensing errors could take three years". Chemist and Druggist. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  5. ^ "North East NHS boss reacts to mental health scandals and says exposing failings 'is a good thing'". Chronicle Live. 2 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.