Audit Commission chair

The Department for the Environment, Transport and Regions has confirmed the appointment of Helena Shovelton as chair of the Audit Commission. Helena Shovelton is...

US honour for UK policy adviser

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) February 1999John Wyn Owen, currently secretary of the Nuffield Trust, has been elected to the US National Academy of Science...

Not quite good times for Tamaris

The search continues for a new chairman of Tamaris plc. The Board presently is said to favour a non-executive appointment but the headhunter chosen...

John Denham appointed Minister of State at Department of Health

John Denham MP has been appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health, replacing Alan Milburn. Mr Denham was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of...

Select Appointments acquisition

Healthcare Market News (Company News) February 1999Select Appointments (Holdings) plc announced this month that it has acquired an 85% interest in Beresford Blake Thomas...

John Denham appointed Minister of State

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) February 1999John Denham MP was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health on 24 December 1998. He was...

Record number of complaints against NHS hospitals

Healthcare Market News (News) December 1998The Health Service Ombudsman, Michael Buckley, has this month published a report summarising recent investigations. His office received a...

Healthcall personnel

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) December 1998Healthcall is understood to have parted company with a number of senior executives in recent weeks. Last month, Robert...

Primary care director for London

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) November 1998Dr David Colin-Thome has been appointed director for primary care for the new London regional office of the NHS...

JCC chairman

Healthcare Market News (Personnel) November 1998James Johnson has succeeded Professor Norman Browse as chairman of the Joint Consultants Committee (JCC).Mr Johnson was elected chairman...