Tom Kibasi appointed to provide expert advice on the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan
The Department of Health and Social Care has announced its direct ministerial appointment of Tom Kibasi, joint chair of three mental health and community NHS trusts, to provide “expert advice and support” on the reform agenda, including the upcoming 10 Year Health Plan.
Tom Kibasi has over 20 years of experience working in the healthcare sector and will provide expert advice for the Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s reform agenda on how to fix the broken NHS.
He has accepted a direct ministerial appointment to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) where he will support the department to turn the ideas for a better health service, coming from tens of thousands of patients and frontline staff, into successful delivery in the landmark 10 Year Health Plan.
The plan will set out how the government’s three big shifts, from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, from sickness to prevention, are to be delivered.
Tom is joint chair of three mental health and community NHS trusts, leading the charge to improve their quality of care and to help keep patients well in the community, having joined the board of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in 2016.
This includes ensuring that trusts share best practice through a new board-in-common and a common framework for quality of care, access to services, finance and productivity. This expertise will help the government deliver the shift in healthcare from hospital to the community.
Tom led the drafting and directed the analysis for Lord Ara Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS, which reported in September 2024. The investigation found that the service is in a ‘critical condition’ amid surging waiting lists and a deterioration in the nation’s underlying health.
Early in his career, Tom worked at the Department of Health as a senior policy adviser to Lord Darzi for his landmark 2008 review of the NHS: High Quality Care for All.
Tom Kibasi said: “The independent investigation was a devastating diagnosis of the problems that patients, the public and hard-working NHS staff experience every day.
“Since then, there has been a remarkable process of public, staff and expert engagement on the 10 Year Health Plan. There is now huge energy and expectation about the vision that it will set for both the service and for the health of the nation.”
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