§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the members of the NHS policy board and explain their remit. [3094]
§ Mr. MaloneThe national health service policy board provides a forum in which Ministers and senior managers meet regional chairmen to consider current NHS management issues. The board is non-statutory and is advisory to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health. The members of the policy board are
The right hon. Stephen Dorrell, Secretary of State for Health; Gerald Malone, Minister of State for Health; the hon. Tom Sackville, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State; John Bowis OBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State; Baroness Cumberlege CBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Graham Hart, Permanent Secretary Department of Health; Alan Langlands, NHS Chief Executive; Dr. Kenneth Caiman, Chief Medical Officer; Yvonne Moores, Chief Nursing Officer; Keith Ackroyd, Regional Chairman Trent; Bryan Baker, Regional Chairman West Midlands; Sir Stuart Burgess, Regional Chairman Anglia and Oxford; Rennie Fritchie, Regional Chairman South and West; John Greetham, Regional Chairman Northern and Yorkshire; Sir William Staveley, Regional Chairman North Thames; William Wells, Regional Chairman South Thames; Sir Donald Wilson, Regional Chairman North West.