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House of Commons

Health Committee

Appointment of the Chair of Monitor

Fourth Report of Session 2013–14

Report, together with formal minutes

Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 October 2013

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The Health Committee

The Health Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Department of Health and its associated bodies.

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Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP (Conservative, Charnwood) (Chair)1 Rosie Cooper MP (Labour, West Lancashire) Andrew George MP (Liberal Democrat, St Ives) Barbara Keeley MP (Labour, Worsley and Eccles South) Charlotte Leslie MP (Conservative, Bristol North West) Grahame M. Morris MP (Labour, Easington) Andrew Percy MP (Conservative, Brigg and Goole) Mr Virendra Sharma MP (Labour, Ealing Southall) David Tredinnick MP (Conservative, Bosworth) Valerie Vaz MP (Labour, Walsall South) Dr Sarah Wollaston MP (Conservative, Totnes)

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1 Mr Stephen Dorrell was elected as the Chair of the Committee on 9 June 2010, in accordance with

Standing Order No. 122B (see House of Commons Votes and Proceedings, 10 June 2010).

Appointment of the Chair of Monitor 1

Contents

Report Page


Appendix 1: Letter from the Secretary of State for Health 4

Appendix 2: Curriculum Vitae for Dominic Dodd 5

Formal Minutes 7

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament 9


Appointment of the Chair of Monitor 1. In April 2010 Dr David Bennett was appointed as interim Chief Executive of Monitor and then as Chair in March 2011. He was appointed permanent Chief Executive of Monitor with effect from 1 November 2012, while remaining as Chair pending a new appointment by the Secretary of State for Health.

2. On 20 March 2013, the Secretary of State for Health wrote to inform the Committee that a process to recruit a new Chair for Monitor was taking place, and invited us to hold a pre-appointment hearing once a preferred candidate had been selected. On 10 October 2013, the Secretary of State informed us that the Government proposed to appoint Dominic Dodd as Chair of Monitor. The Committee held the pre-appointment hearing on 15 October 2013.

3. The hearing addressed Mr Dodd’s background, previous experience and views on the challenges facing Monitor, its new Chair and board. We examined Mr Dodd’s views on Monitor’s new responsibilities established under the Health and Social Care Act 2012. We also asked Mr Dodd to discuss how, if appointed, he would expect the relationship between Monitor’s executive and the board to evolve.

4. As we have noted above, Dr Bennett was appointed as interim Chief Executive in April 2010, and appointed as substantive Chair in March 2011. Since then he has filled the roles of both Chair and Chief Executive – effectively Executive Chair – and has led Monitor through the whole process of change brought about by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. This has been a period of great uncertainty for Monitor, with the nature of its role in the new system being unclear for most of the 18 months between the introduction of the Bill in January 2011 and its passing in 2012. Dr Bennett has both shaped and interpreted the role that Monitor now plays in the system which makes the transition to another individual taking on the Chair an especially difficult one. We do not think Mr Dodd is the right person to undertake that difficult transition.

5. On this basis we do not endorse Mr Dodd’s appointment.

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Appendix 1: Letter from the Secretary of State for Health

LETTER FROM THE RT HON JEREMY HUNT MP, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH, TO THE CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE, 10 OCTOBER 2013

Chair of Monitor

I am writing to inform you that following the conclusion of an open recruitment campaign, my preferred candidate for appointment as Chair of Monitor is Dominic Dodd.

Dominic Dodd is currently Chair, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and has been since July 2009, prior to which he was a Non-Executive Director on the board for 3 years. In his current capacity at Royal Free, he is Director of UCL Partners, Europe’s largest academic health science system. Dominic is also a Non-Executive Director for Permanent TSB Group Holdings plc, and from 1989 to 2003 he was Managing Partner of Marakon Associates, a strategy consultant firm. I have attached a copy of his CV.

I have also attached a background paper on the recruitment process and copies of the Information Pack and advertisement for the campaign.

I understand that the Committee intends to hold a pre-appointment hearing on Tuesday 15th October. Dominic Dodd will attend and I look forward to receiving your report following the hearing.

I have copied this letter to Dominic Dodd and Sarah Anderson, Public Appointments Assessor, who chaired the selection panel.


Appendix 2: Curriculum Vitae for Dominic Dodd

Curriculum Vitae DOMINIC DODD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Chairman, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 2006–current

• University teaching hospital group with 5,275 staff and income of £577M in 2012/13. • Appointed non executive director in 2006 and then chairman in 2009. • Current chair of: Board of Directors, Council of Governors, Strategy & Investment

Committee, and Remuneration Committee. • Previous roles: vice chair, chair of Risk, Governance & Regulation Committee, chair of

Healthcare Governance Committee, chair of Human Resources & Diversity Committee, Audit Committee.

Director, UCL Partners 2009–current

• Europe's largest academic health science system of which the Royal Free is a founding

partner alongside Barts Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, UCLH and University College London.

Non Executive Director, Permanent TSB Group Holdings plc 2012–current

• Formerly Irish Life & Permanent Group; now Irish domestic retail bank, with asset

management unit and UK buy-to-let lender; majority owned by the Irish state. • Member of Board of Directors (Group Holdings and Bank), chair of Remuneration &

Compensation Committee, member of Risk & Compliance Committee.

Independent Advisor to Chief Executives 2004–2012

• Clients in both the for-profit and non-for-profit sectors, typically at CEO level. • Advisory focus: corporate strategy and governance, performance management,

top management decision-making capabilities, growth. Executive Director, Children's Investment Fund Foundation 2008–2009

• Member of four-person executive committee. • Implementation partners included: Clinton Foundation, Unicef, Global AIDS Alliance.

Funding partners included: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Comic Relief, EJAF, USAID.

• Portfolio of responsibilities included foundation effectiveness, performance management and post-conflict humanitarian funding.


Managing Partner, Marakon Associates 1989–2003

• International strategy consulting firm with expertise in helping companies grow long-term value for shareholders – called by The Economist "a consultancy that has advised some of the world's most consistently successful companies."

• Elected partner in 1997 and managing partner in 2000. Senior advisor role from 2004–2007. • Led complex, multi-team engagements – with an average duration of 4–5 years – designed

to achieve a transformation in long-term value for shareholders for complex multinationals. • Clients included the Boots Company plc, Cadbury Schweppes plc, the Roche Group, and

Lloyds TSB plc. • Example engagements: post-merger integration; design and introduction of new strategic

planning processes; new organisational structures, market share growth strategies in consumer products markets in UK, France, India and Australia.

EDUCATION Lincoln College, University of Oxford 1986–1989 BA honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (first class) Long Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge 1983–1985 "A" Levels in: Maths, French, History and Religious Studies

PUBLICATIONS "Managing the Right Tension", Harvard Business Review, 2006, co-author "The Three Tensions", Jossey-Bass, 2007, co-author


Formal Minutes

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Members present:

Mr Stephen Dorrell, in the Chair

Andrew George Barbara Keeley Grahame M. Morris

Valerie VazDr Sarah Wollaston

Draft Report (Appointment of the Chair of Monitor), proposed by the Chair, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 3 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 4 read, as follows:

4. The Committee endorses the appointment of Mr Dodd but wishes to put on record that we would like to hear further from him about how he plans to hold the Chief Executive to account and handle conflicts of interest. We therefore plan to review his progress in his role in six months’ time.

Motion made, to leave out paragraph 4 and insert the following new paragraphs:

“As we have noted above, Dr Bennett was appointed as interim Chief Executive in April 2010, and appointed as substantive Chair in March 2011. Since then he has filled the roles of both Chair and Chief Executive – effectively Executive Chair – and has led Monitor through the whole process of change brought about by the Health and Social Care Act 2012. This has been a period of great uncertainty for Monitor, with the nature of its role in the new system being unclear for most of the 18 months between the introduction of the Bill in January 2011 and its passing in 2012. Dr Bennett has both shaped and interpreted the role that Monitor now plays in the system which makes the transition to another individual taking on the Chair an especially difficult one. We do not think Mr Dodd is the right person to undertake that difficult transition. On this basis we do not endorse Mr Dodd’s appointment.”–(Barbara Keeley.) Question put, That the new paragraphs be read a second time.

The Committee divided.

Ayes, 3Barbara Keeley Grahame M. Morris Valerie Vaz

Noes, 2Andrew George Dr Sarah Wollaston

Paragraph 4 disagreed to, and new paragraphs inserted (now paragraphs 4 and 5).

Papers were appended to the Report as Appendix 1 and Appendix 2.

Motion made, and Question put, That the Report, as amended, be the Fourth Report of the Committee to the House.

The Committee divided.


Ayes, 3Barbara Keeley Grahame M. Morris Valerie Vaz

Noes, 2Andrew George Dr Sarah Wollaston

Resolved, That the Report, as amended, be the Fourth Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chair make the Report to the House.

[Adjourned till Tuesday 29 October at 2.00 pm


List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

The reference number of the Government’s response to each Report is printed in brackets after the HC printing number.

Session 2013–14

First Special Report 2012 accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission: Government and Care Quality Commission Responses to the Committee’s Seventh Report of Session 2012–13

HC 154

Second Special Report 2012 accountability hearing with Monitor: Government and Monitor Responses to the Committee's Tenth Report of Session 2012–13

HC 172

Third Special Report 2012 accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council: Government and Nursing and Midwifery Council Responses to the Committee’s Ninth Report of Session 2012–13

HC 581

First Report Post-legislative scrutiny of the Mental Health Act 2007

HC 584

Second Report Urgent and emergency services HC 171 (Cm 8708)

Third Report After Francis: making a difference HC 657

Fourth Report Appointment of the Chair of Monitor HC 744

Session 2012–13

First Report Education, training and workforce planning HC 6-I (Cm 8435)

Second Report PIP breast implants: web forum on patient experiences

HC 435

Third Report Government’s Alcohol Strategy HC 132 (Cm 8439)

Fourth Report 2012 accountability hearing with the General Medical Council

HC 566 (Cm 8520)

Fifth Report Appointment of the Chair of the Care Quality Commission

HC 807

Sixth Report Appointment of the Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

HC 831

Seventh Report 2012 accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission

HC 592

Eighth Report National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence HC 782

Ninth Report 2012 accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

HC 639

Tenth Report 2012 accountability hearing with Monitor HC 652

Eleventh Report Public expenditure on health and care services HC 651 (Cm 8624)

Session 2010–12

First Report Appointment of the Chair of the Care Quality Commission

HC 461-I

Second Report Public Expenditure HC 512 (Cm 8007)


Third Report Commissioning HC 513 (Cm 8009)

Fourth Report Revalidation of Doctors HC 557 (Cm 8028)

Fifth Report Commissioning: further issues HC 796 (Cm 8100)

First Special Report Revalidation of Doctors: General Medical Council’s Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2010–11

HC 1033

Sixth Report Complaints and Litigation HC 786 (Cm 8180)

Seventh Report Annual accountability hearing with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

HC 1428 (HC 1699)

Eighth Report Annual accountability hearing with the General Medical Council

HC 1429 (HC 1699)

Ninth Report Annual accountability hearing with the Care Quality Commission

HC 1430 (HC 1699)

Tenth Report Annual accountability hearing with Monitor HC 1431 (HC 1699)

Eleventh Report Appointment of the Chair of the NHS Commissioning Board

HC 1562-I

Twelfth Report Public Health HC 1048-I (Cm 8290)

Thirteenth Report Public Expenditure HC 1499 (Cm 8283)

Fourteenth Report Social Care HC 1583-I (Cm 8380)

Fifteenth Report Annual accountability hearings: responses and further issues

HC 1699

Sixteenth Report PIP Breast implants and regulation of cosmetic interventions

HC 1816 (Cm 8351)

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