NHS EMPLOYERS ELECT NEW BOARD
Released 28/08/2008
Policy board to get ten new members
NHS Employers, which represents trusts in England on workforce issues, has announced ten new members to its policy board, along with a new chair and two new vice-chairs.
The policy board steers the policy agenda for NHS Employers and helps to ensure that the work and views of NHS Employers reflect those of the NHS.
In May, the policy board elected Simon Pleydell to take over in December. Pleydell is chief executive of South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust and has been a member of the board since 2004.
The board also elected Jim Birrell and Danny Mortimer as its two vice chairs. Their terms of office begin immediately.
The new members are drawn from a range of NHS organisations and professions. The policy board's ten new members are:
Liz Childs, director of nursing and quality at South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
- Joanna Cubbon, chief executive at Taunton and Somerset Foundation Trust NHS.
- Denise Harnin, HR director at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
- Ian Hollows, finance director at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
- Lorene Read, chief executive at Weston Area Health NHS Trust.
- Suzanne Rastrick, director of patient care improvement at Dorset PCT.
- Eileen Sills, chief nurse at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
- Chris Stocks, HR director at Sheffield PCT.
- Ian Stone will represent special health authorities and works at the National Clinical Assessment Service.
- Maureen Swanson, medical director at Western Cheshire PCT.
Sian Thomas, Joint Acting Director of NHS Employers, said: "Our policy board has an instrumental role in setting the policy agenda for NHS Employers and helps to make sure that we are truly representative of NHS trusts on workforce issues."
"The new members have been elected from across the service and come from a broad range of backgrounds and roles so are able to fully represent the different organisations that make up the modern NHS," she said.