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NHS England is now recruiting for the new cohort of National Clinical Directors (NCDs) and National Specialty Advisors (NSAs). Our NCDs and NSAs are a group of senior practising clinicians who provide overarching national clinical leadership to the organisation to support our programmes and priorities in addition to their clinical practice in the NHS. They have extensive knowledge of their specialty areas, current experience in frontline NHS services, and can provide agile and responsive advice to sense check local and national initiatives.

The NCD will provide overarching specialist clinical leadership and advice for NHS England in these respects:

• Clinical advice and leadership to drive transformation of services for patients through corporate programmes and Long-Term Plan workstreams;
• Clinical advice and leadership to support the commissioning of services. The NCD may, where appropriate, be responsible for chairing the relevant specialised commissioning programme of care board.
• Clinical advice to support development of policy and parliamentary accountability.

The NCD plays a crucial role in promoting effective coordination and collaboration with other clinical leads within the organisation. This includes working closely with the GIRFT chair, GIRFT clinical leads, CRG chairs, WTE leads, and NHS Impact programmes to ensure that all their specialty areas are aligned with national policy and strategy.

We welcome applicants for the NCD role to consider whether they might also aspire to take on additional opportunities in GIRFT or specialised commissioning after appointment.

The National Clinical Director for Respiratory will lead the National Programme of Care (Specialised Commissioning), and be responsible for the provision of high quality clinical leadership and advice to drive:

Clinical leadership and oversight in delivering the respiratory priorities included in the NHS Long Term Plan:

• Early and accurate diagnosis: to increase early and accurate diagnosis for people with respiratory disease.
• Medicines management: to promote appropriate prescribing of asthma medication and inhaler use to promote better compliance and prevent avoidable acute admissions and deaths from poor self-management.
• Flexible learning: to develop an accredited education programme for individuals diagnosed with COPD, asthma and bronchiectasis.
• Expansion of pulmonary rehabilitation: to increase the number of patients who would benefit from Pulmonary Rehabilitation and are referred to and complete a good quality programme.
• Community-acquired pneumonia: to reduce avoidable admissions and bed days for patients with community acquired pneumonia,achieved through implementation of risk stratification tools and ambulatory care services such as nurse-led supported discharge services.
• Combined breathlessness models: to design a model of care for diagnosis and management of the breathless patient including combined rehabilitation

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information about the specific responsibilities of the post.

The reason for the short term vacancy is because these roles are offered on a 3 year tenure. The end date for this post is therefore 31st October 2026.