NHS England and Improvement advertised all 19 National Clinical Director (NCD) posts earlier this year in a planned recruitment exercise as all contracts were coming to an end.
In recent announcements, the NCD for diabetes and obesity remains Professor Jonathan Valabhji, consultant diabetologist at Imperial College Healthcare Trust and professor of practice at Imperial College; and Professor Partha Kar, diabetes and endocrinology consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals Trust, will be national specialty adviser for diabetes, with the portfolios Type 1 diabetes and diabetes technology.