Congratulations to NHS England chair Malcolm Grant, who was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s birthday honours list. He will now be able to hold his own among all those extremely highly respected “Sirs” of the health world, even former strategic health authority chief executives.
Anyway, rising to the occasion, End Game looked on the internet for facts about Sir Malcolm.
We could not have dreamed of discovering anything as exciting as this image, which depicts the then lowly-titled professor without his extremely famous moustache.
The then Professor Grant shaved it off in 2005, on the invitation of University College London student mag The Cheese Grater (he is provost there).
This raised more than £2,000 for Comic Relief – presumably an explanation for the attachment to his nose and also, incidentally, 3.2 per cent of his current NHS England salary. Sadly his move did not prevent a bid by the UCL Union six years later to move a vote of no confidence in Sir Malc for allegedly becoming “complicit in the carving up of the NHS as a public service” by taking up Andrew Lansley’s offer of spending a few days per month in Leeds with a lovely chap called Sir David Nicholson.
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