As many will know, the Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, announced last December that the government would be developing a new strategy for cardiovascular disease under the direction of Sir Bruce Keogh (NHS Medical Director). As part of this work two Interim National Clinical Directors have been seconded to the Department of Health: me (Professor Huon Gray, University Hospital of Southampton) for Cardiovascular Disease and Dr Damian Jenkinson (Royal Bournemouth Hospital) for Stroke. Both are part-time secondments and together cover the work previously overseen by Professor Sir Roger Boyle, before his retirement last summer.
