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Kenneth Wesley Jarrold CBE (born 19 May 1948), better known as Ken Jarrold, is a British health service manager.
Since December 2011 he has been Chair of North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. He also chairs the programme board for the Government’s work on rebalancing of medicines legislation and pharmacy regulation.
He lives at Biddulph Moor.
He joined the NHS in 1969 as a National Administrative Trainee having been awarded a 1st Class Honours Degree in History at Cambridge University and having been President of the Cambridge Union Society. 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.