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Dido Harding stepping down.

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Jaxjacky Mon 09-Aug-21 16:56:18

news.sky.com/story/dido-harding-to-step-down-as-chair-of-nhs-improvement-in-october-12377390

B9exchange Mon 09-Aug-21 17:01:41

She feels she has fulfilled her role of merging NHSE and NHSI (merger to take place next April) and it is time to go, she might have been made redundant at the merger anyway. I couldn't possibly suggest there might be an element of pique at not getting the CEO of the NHS job after Simon Stevens. I doubt TalkTalk will want her back, but I am sure some other company will give her a well paid job. Sorry, being a bit catty, but not impressed with her performance!

welbeck Mon 09-Aug-21 17:14:04

some say she is a bit of a d**k.

vegansrock Mon 09-Aug-21 18:02:06

Well she’s got a peerage and millions for that world beating test n trace so maybe she’ll retire to enjoy all her not very well earned dosh.

NotSpaghetti Mon 09-Aug-21 18:03:59

I hope she does retire as otherwise she'll no doubt ruin something else.

Gwyneth Mon 09-Aug-21 19:21:42

I’m just so pleased she isn’t going to succeed Simon Stevens. The person who has been appointed was his deputy and it sounds as if she has the experience and continuity to do a decent job. Dido Harding appears to have made a mess of everything she has done and been paid huge amounts of money for doing so!

GillT57 Mon 09-Aug-21 19:25:31

well as long as it is not anything funded by taxpayers she can go where she likes, just as long as I know and can avoid helping her success in anyway at all. Useless individual.

Sarnia Tue 10-Aug-21 14:27:47

Thank goodness she won't be getting the NHS job. Her CV is rubbish. The NHS desperately need some sort of a saviour and Dido Harding isn't that.

Whitewavemark2 Tue 10-Aug-21 15:14:47

I want to know line by line and pound by pound what the

£37,000,000,000.

Was used for.

Whitewavemark2 Wed 11-Aug-21 09:57:18

Here is a small example of tax money used for vanity projects when it could/should have been used for the benefit if the country.

£900,000 of public money on RAF Voyager plane paint job.

£2,700,000 TV studio, barely used.

£250m+ Govt yacht.

9m-bunker.

£100,000-lavish art.

£163,000-Union Flags.

£2.7m pay-outs-sacked advisors.

Polarbear2 Wed 11-Aug-21 10:05:41

Y’know…. I don’t know how she can look at a camera and smile. I’d be mortified if I was her. I’d hide away. It continually astounds me how little shame they have. Or maybe they’re deluded and think they’re great really. ?‍♀️ Whatever - good riddance.

maddyone Wed 11-Aug-21 10:09:42

I’m glad she’s gone, we’ve wasted far too much money on her.

MaizieD Wed 11-Aug-21 10:14:19

Y’know…. I don’t know how she can look at a camera and smile.

Laughing at having got one over on the nation. She's probably engineered a nice little slice of the £37billion for her own use. Why care about the consequences of her ineptitude...