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

I'm delighted. All promise and hope. We'll see.

www.digitalhealth.net/2021/07/amanda-pritchard-confirmed-as-new-nhs-england-chief-executive/
This is good news, a woman with lots of NHS experience.

Having given up her previous post to concentrate on her bid to become NHS Chief Exec., what next for Dido Harding?

Emma Barnett on Woman's Hour had her on the ropes but she tried to wriggle out of her failures by making excuses - but never good reasons except to herself.

Surely this incompetent woman cannot be seen as a viable applicant?

NHS England has a bad enough reputation as it is and with Harding in charge things would surely only get worse.

Whitewavemark2

A video has emerged of her talking to Cambridge Analytica about the wonderful opportunities to be had from selling NHS data.

Isn’t her husband very much involved in NHS privatisation? (apologies if this has been mentioned before…I’m dipping in and out of threads).

Absolutely agree Urmston, appalling woman

She has no credibility whatsoever.

Whitewavemark2

A video has emerged of her talking to Cambridge Analytica about the wonderful opportunities to be had from selling NHS data.

It is very interesting that all of us, so far, are agreed on her unsuitability for the job, despite our political differences

Dido Harding should have been prosecuted for the massive data breach when she was in charge of Talk Talk. It is beyond ironic that she was then given responsibility for handling the data for track and trace. So, on this basis that she is useless, leaves jobs before she gets prosecuted, and is generally regarded as hopeless by all her previous employers, then we can assume she will get the job. Is everyone aware of her husband's responsibilities as a Tory MP? David Penrose (born 22 June 1964) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare since 2005. A member of the Conservative Party, he has also served as the United Kingdom Anti-Corruption Champion at the Cabinet Office since 2019 certainly need that hollow laugh emoticon

A video has emerged of her talking to Cambridge Analytica about the wonderful opportunities to be had from selling NHS data.

Can we please have a head of the NHS who has put some time in caring for and understanding patients and who has a clinical qualification, expertise and ability.

This information about Dido's possible appointment has made me even more determined to opt out of the government plans for 'data grab' from the NHS by the deadline June 23rd.

Thank you, elrel - more or less what I was saying but more succinctly put.

I think Dido should wave her white flag and bow out gracefully.

Gwyneth

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

Good point Gwyneth. I sincerely hope her gender doesn’t get to play a part.

She’s chums with the Johnsons so has got a peerage and lots of taxpayers dosh already.

GrannySomerset

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.

I think it's called The Dilbert Principle, promoting someone incompetent out of harm's way.

Unfortunately I don't think it will work in this case.
She is so incompetent as to be dangerous in a position like that.

Dido Queen of Carnage. She keeps getting these jobs for which she has no qualifications or expertise because she knows people who know people. It was ever thus.

Deedaa

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?

because more can be done.

Exactly worriedwell.

I don’t think Dido Harding was promoted by the Peter Principle!!

Wikipedia says:

The Peter Principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.

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FarNorth

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

Yes let's include people like Hancock, Williamson and of course Johnson.

“ Has the woman no shame?
I wouldn’t trust her to run my bath.”

Well if she was running my bath I would be very suspicious and wonder how she got into my flat,

My vote is for Hartley, this being a family name.