Appointment of the Chair of Monitor : fourth report, session 2013-14, report, together with formal minutes

In April 2010 Dr David Bennett was appointed as interim Chief Executive of Monitor and then as Chair in March 2011.

He was appointed permanent Chief Executive of Monitor with effect from 1 November 2012, while remaining as Chair pending a new appointment.

On 10 October 2013, the Secretary of State proposed to appoint Dominic Dodd as Chair of Monitor.

Dr Bennett has filled the roles of both Chair and Chief Executive - effectively Executive Chair - and has led Monitor through the whole process of change brought about by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

He has both shaped and interpreted the role that Monitor now plays in the system which makes the transition to another individual taking on the Chair an especially difficult one.

On this basis the Committee did not endorse Mr Dodd's appointment