HC Deb 07 March 1994 vol 239 cc80-1W
Dr. Wright

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give details of the public appointments she is responsible for making in addition to those identified in "Public Bodies 1993", including non-executive agency and other departmental management boards.

Mr. Sackville

In addition to those listed in "Public Bodies 1993", my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, or Ministers acting on her behalf, appoints the chairman and members of the following bodies:

  • Central Research and Development Committee for the NHS;
  • Research and Development Strategy;
  • Dental Vocational Training Authority;
  • National Advisory Body (which guides and co-ordinates the Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy in England, Wales and Northern Ireland);
  • NHS Supplies Authority;
  • National Breastfeeding Working Group;
  • Nutrition Task Force;
  • Pharmacists' Review Panel;
  • Vocational Training Appeal Body.

My right hon. Friend appoints chairmen of the London implementation group, the joint supervisory board of the NHS centre for coding and classification and the national case mix office.

In addition, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is responsible for appointing the expert members of the steering group on the microbiological safety of food. Some appointments to the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine and the General Dental Council's dental auxiliaries committee are made jointly with my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales and my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Appointments are also made to the three main "Health of the Nation" advisory groups. These are the wider health working group, The Chief Medical Officer's "Health of the Nation" working group and the chief executive's NHS implementation group.

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State also appoints 26 bodies of special trustees to administer the trust funds of various pre-1974 boards of governors and university hospitals which chose to keep their individual funds.

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