Dido Harding. Her ego is far bigger than her ability! ?

Was it called the Peter Principle? Keep promoting someone after each failure until they were so exalted other people did all the work. Can’t remember exactly but it certainly applies in Harding’s case.

Why would you give the job to someone who has failed spectacularly in other roles?

I hope she doesn’t get the job because she is the only woman in the list of candidates.

Who looks at women people like Dido and Priti and thinks they should be in positions of power?

www.england.nhs.uk/about/nhs-executive-group/job-advert-nhs-chief-executive-role/
Here’s the job description for the role. It’s a civil service post so in the public domain.

Thanks for the extra info Casdon it’s good to know who the runners and riders are here!

Please, please let it not be Dido at the finishing post.

Vet's bills are a good comparison as well Vampire I remember in the days when you paid a shilling for a prescription being charged a pound for an antibiotic for a pet seemed astronomical. Now of course vet's bills can run into thousands.

I'd love to know what their criteria are. Who looks at women like Dido and Priti and thinks they should be in positions of power?

The leading candidates for the next CEO of NHS England
The hopefuls. Sir James Mackey, chief executive, Northumbria Healthcare. Why: Hugely successful and respected trust CEO. ...
The safe pairs of hands. Julian Hartley, chief executive, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. ...
The outside bets. Sir Mike Deegan, chief executive, Manchester University Trust.
This is from the Health Service Journal.

She may be flying a kite - I hope so as these candidates are all far more credible.

This woman must be spectacularly successful - whatever she does, she gets some kind of promotion out of it. On the face of it, looking at Talk Talk and Test and Trace, you wouldn't think so.

She'll get the job. The gov want someone useless so they can push privatisation even faster.

Someone on FB suggested that each time we have treatment on the NHS we are given a receipt showing how much it would have cost if it had been done privately. Maybe that would shock people out of their apathy and make them value a nationalised health system far more than some do.

I imagine she'll be rushed straight in. The government has plenty of sense - all being used in the interests of themselves and their chums.

Hopefully she won’t pass the interview!
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I was one of thousands who received a letter of apology from Talktalk telling me that my account could possibly have been compromised----not possibly, it WAS ! Scam calls galore and a nightmare for months, but no compensation !

I can’t believe that in this key key role Sir Simon Stevens would be replaced by somebody who doesn’t have such a robust and wide ranging experience in healthcare as he does, having come up through the ranks and worked in international roles. That’s what gives him the credibility within the NHS and within parliament. There are other people who could do this job well, so why appoint somebody who has none of the necessary credentials?

You would hope that the Government would have more sense.

Somebody else I can't stand. Where do these people get their brass necks from ?

Bath ???
Agree that's why she's there - as a yes-woman and to further push the NHS towards privatisation.

Entirely agree! Sounds a real disaster. Tho I thought that there were others pushing her forward who want her appointed in outfit to be a yes-woman.
Don't particularly begrudge Simon Stevens a peerage in due course. Thought he was standing down because he'd had enough, which is honest.