§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the NHS Trust and Health Authority appointments which were not made by the due date and which remained outstanding on 1 November. [98110]
§ Ms StuartThe appointment terms of 265 National Health Service trust non-executives and Chairs came to an end on 31 October 1999. Appointments were made to 257 or 97 per cent. of these vacancies at least four weeks before the due date. Fourteen of these appointments were short-term reappointments until January 2000. Eight vacancies were outstanding on 1 November 1999. They were:
Body Number of Chairs Number of non-executives Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust 0 1 Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust 0 2 Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare 0 1 Queen Victoria Hospital 0 1 Two Shires Ambulance 0 1 Medway 0 1 Stoke Mandeville Hospital NHS Trust 0 1 Total 0 8