{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Kenneth Wesley Jarrold''' CBE (born 19 May 1948), is a British health service manager.
Jarrold was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he gained a first-class degree in history.<ref>{{Who's Who | title=JARROLD, Kenneth Wesley | id = U21853 | volume = 2023 | edition = online}}</ref> He was President of the Cambridge Union.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/about/team/board/ken-jarrold/|title = Ken Jarrold CBE}}</ref>
From December 2011 to March 2016 he was Chair of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust.<ref>{{cite web|title=NEW CHAIR FOR MENTAL HEALTH TRUST|url=http://www.combined.nhs.uk/news/Pages/Ken-Jarrold-.aspx|publisher=North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust|accessdate=18 April 2014|archive-date=19 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419012633/http://www.combined.nhs.uk/news/Pages/Ken-Jarrold-.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was appointed chair of the Rebalancing Medicines Legislation and Pharmacy Regulation Programme Board in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Decriminalisation of dispensing errors could take three years|url=http://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/decriminalisation-dispensing-errors-could-take-three-years|accessdate=10 March 2017|publisher=Chemist and Druggist|date=30 January 2013}}</ref>
He lives at Stockton on Tees and Newcastle upon Tyne.
He joined the NHS in 1969 as a National Administrative Trainee. He was a chief executive of district, regional and strategic health authorities for 19 years. He was a board member of the NHS Executive and spent three years at national level as the Director of Human Resources and Deputy to the Chief Executive of the NHS in England.
He has retired as the Chair of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust<ref>{{cite news |title=North East NHS boss reacts to mental health scandals and says exposing failings 'is a good thing' |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/nhs-mental-health-scandals-exposed-25419425 |access-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=Chronicle Live |date=2 November 2022}}</ref> Council of Governors and Board of Directors. ==Publications== Other People's Shoes: 40 Questions for Leaders and Managers, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018 {{ISBN|1985879697}}
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