Former health secretary Stephen Dorrell has announced that he will not be standing as an MP at the next election. Instead he will be joining consultant KPMG.
The Conservative MP will be working as a senior adviser at the firm’s UK healthcare and public sector practice.
Mr Dorrell served as health secretary between 1995 and 1997, and chaired the Commons health committee from 2010 until June this year.
An influential and well regarded figure within health policy circles, Mr Dorrell has been a high profile critic of aspects of the government’s Health and Social Care Act.
Commenting on his new role, he said: “I have spent most of the last 25 years as an advocate of public service reform.
“I relish the opportunity to work with KPMG and its clients to take this essential reform process forward for the benefit of NHS patients and other service users.”
Mr Dorrell will also work within KPMG’s global healthcare and life sciences, and infrastructure and government practices.
He will begin his new part time position on 1 December.
Over the course of his 35 year career in parliament Mr Dorrell also served as a health minister from 1990-92 and as a treasury minister from 1992-94.
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