Regional Health Authority Chairmen

HC Deb 09 July 1992 vol 211 c333W

Mrs. Browning

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will announce the appointment of regional health authority chairmen.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I am pleased to announce that I have made two new appointments to chair regional health authorities, as followsSouth West Thames RHA, Professor Marian Hicks South Western RHA, Ms. Rennie Fritchie In addition, the chairmen of the following three regional health authorities have been reappointed from I August 1992: North East Thames RHA, Mr. Tim Chessells Northern RHA, Mr. Peter Carr Oxford RHA, Dr. Stuart Burgess

I would like to express my appreciation of the contribution to the national health service made by Mr. Charles Stuart at South Western RHA. For personal reasons, Mr. Stuart is relinquishing the regional chairmanship, and I have invited him to become the chairman-designate of the proposed Plymouth hospitals unit which has made a formal application to become an NHS trust operational from 1 April 1993.