Derbyshire care body names experienced GP to key role

The new body being set up to co-ordinate health and social care across Derby and Derbyshire has named an experienced local GP as both a non-executive member and chair of one of its most important committees.

Dr Buk Dhadda is the fifth person to be named as a non-executive member, and will chair the Quality and Performance Committee of the NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB). He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the roles, as well as a deep understanding of the local community.

The Quality and Performance Committee will provide assurance to the ICB in relation to the quality, performance, safety, experience and outcomes of services it commissions. It will also ensure the ICB discharges its statutory duties in relation to the achievement of continuous quality improvement and safeguarding of vulnerable children and adults.

Dr Dhadda was born and raised in Derby, and qualified at St Georges Hospital Medical School in London in 1995. He has worked as a local GP since 1999, and is currently a GP at Swadlincote Surgery. 

He has held several leadership roles, having served as a GP Governing Body member of NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) from 2012 until 2019 before being appointed to the Governing Body of NHS Derby and Derbyshire CCG.

Dr Dhadda has a specialist interest in diabetes, and supported the reorganisation of diabetes services in Derbyshire while clinical lead for diabetes for the NHS Southern Derbyshire CCG’s Clinical Lead.
Outstanding clinical leader 

John MacDonald, Chair Designate of the ICB, said: "Dr Dhadda has played a key leadership role in health and care in Derbyshire over many years, and I'm delighted that he will be involved both as a non-executive member and as chair of the Quality and Performance Committee.

"It's hard to overstate the importance of this particular committee in ensuring that the health and care services we commission are of the highest possible standard. Dr Dhadda is an outstanding clinical leader who has considerable expertise in this area."

"Dr Dhadda joins four other non-executive members in Julian Comer, Margaret Gildea, Richard Wright and Sue Sunderland. The appointment of the NEMs is an important step in establishing the Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board.”

ICB background

The NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is due to be established on 1 July 2022, and will be the NHS organisation responsible for planning to meet local health needs, allocating resources, ensuring services are in place to deliver against ambitions, and overseeing delivery of improved outcomes for their population. Tackling inequalities in health outcomes, the ICB will be part of the Joined Up Care Derbyshire Integrated Health and Care system, continuing to work with partners in local authority, the voluntary sector and others, helping the NHS to support broader social and economic development.

The Non-Executive Member role attracts a salary of £13,000-16,000 depending on time commitment and experience.

The next step for the ICB will be to recruit Executive Directors ahead of the Board likely being established in shadow form from March 2022, before being formally established on 1st July 2022, subject to Royal Assent of the Health and Social Care Bill, which is currently being reviewed by Parliament.