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Lawrence Tallon has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

He is currently deputy chief executive at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, where he has served since March 2020. He is also managing director of the Shelford Group, which represents some of England’s leading NHS teaching hospitals.

Prior to this he served as director of strategy, planning and performance at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and worked within the Department of Health and Social Care alongside ministers and NHS leaders.

Mr Tallon will begin the role from April 1. He succeeds Dame June Raine who is retiring after nearly 40 years at the MHRA. She has led the organisation since 2019, having steered it through the Covid-19 pandemic and the UK’s exit from the European Union.

New chair for NHS England

Dr Penny Dash is to be the new chair of NHS England. She succeeds Richard Meddings, who steps down next month.

Dr Dash is currently the chair of the NHS North-West London Integrated Care Board and is leading a major review into the regulation of health and social care quality in England. Her interim report, published last year, shone a light on problems at the Care Quality Commission, and sparked the appointment of new leadership to turn around the health and care regulator.

She is a former NHS doctor, senior partner at McKinsey working on healthcare globally, and head of strategy at the Department of Health and Social Care.

This appointment is a four-year term and begins April 1.