WELL LOOK WHO’S BACK!
New £85k NHS job for rule-breaker Calderwood
SHAMED former chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood has landed a senior role with the NHS.
She was forced to step down as Scotland’s top doctor last April after being caught flouting her own lockdown rules.
But Dr Calderwood, 52, has now been appointed national clinical director of the new centre for sustainable delivery at the Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.
She will receive a salary of between £85,811 and £89,732 for co-ordinating the future of planned NHS treatment, such as hip replacements.
Jann Gardner, chief executive of NHS Golden Jubilee, said she was appointed after a ‘stringent, valuesbased recruitment process’ and brought a wealth of experience.
Ms Gardner said: ‘Part of NHS Golden Jubilee’s values is about recruiting the best people with the knowledge and skills for the role they apply for. However, it is also important that the successful candidate wants to improve, innovate and learn as an individual to benefit our patients across Scotland.’
Dr Calderwood was a familiar face in the early stages of the pandemic, appearing alongside First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at daily coronavirus briefings and fronting government adverts. But she was forced to resign in April after pictures emerged of her at her holiday property in Fife with her husband and children – 44 miles away from their home in Edinburgh.
She received a formal warning from Police Scotland after admitting it was the second weekend she had breached her own rules by travelling.
Dr Calderwood said she was ‘deeply sorry for my actions and the mistakes I have made’.