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Jason Leitch joins board of private surgery firm

Prof Leitch, a qualified dentist and consultant oral surgeon, worked for the Scottish government from 2007 on a secondment from NHS Tayside and became a household name during the Covid pandemic.

He often represented the Scottish government in media briefings and became a regular guest on TV and radio programmes, including BBC Radio Scotland’s popular football show Off The Ball.

Prof Leitch was awarded a CBE in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

He announced he was stepping down in March, a short time after he gave evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry.

The inquiry had heard about online discussions in which he described deleting WhatsApp messages linked to the Covid response as a “pre-bed ritual”

In evidence he claimed this was a “flippant exaggeration”.

At the time of his resignation he said fulfilling his role as national clinical director had been a huge privilege but that he now wanted to look for more challenges in the health and care sector and work with charities.


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