Recommendation 10

It had previously been announced that NHS England’s Chief Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, National Medical Director and Chief Delivery Officer and National Director for Vaccination and Screening would step down from their roles.13 During our evidence session, the Prime Minister announced that the Department and NHS England would merge. In the context of these changes, we asked how the institutional memory of NHS England would be preserved. NHS England could not explain specifically how this would be retained. It stated that those remaining at NHS England had a significant amount of experience, and that these people would give continuity of knowledge.14