Tom Kibasi has been appointed to the Department of Health and Social Care to shape the 10-Year Health Plan.

Kibasi has worked in the healthcare sector for over 20 years.

In his new role, Kibasi will provide expert advice and support to Wes Streeting’s reform agenda, including drafting the government’s 10 Year Health plan.
 

He will support the department to turn the ideas for a better health service, coming from of patients and frontline staff, into successful delivery in the 10 Year Health Plan.

The plan will set out how the three big shifts are to be delivered - from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from sickness to prevention.

Currently, Kibasi is joint chair of three mental health and community NHS trusts, having joined the board of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust in 2016.

He also led the drafting and directed the analysis for Lord Ara Darzi’s independent investigation into the state of the NHS.

On his appointment, 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.”