At the NHS Commissioning Board Authority board meeting on 20 September 2012, National Director: HR, Jo-Anne Wass, presented an update on recruitment including a verbal briefing on the number of appointments that have been made.

This information has now been published and shows that 101 posts have been filled as at 19 September 2012, with a further 498 posts currently in the process of being recruited or subject to job matching .

The focus of our recruitment programme will begin to shift to Agenda for Change posts within the NHS Commissioning Board with good progress being made in the first phase of recruitment for very senior manager positions