CM Personnel

Chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) David Prior has been appointed parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department of Health with responsibility for NHS productivity, taking up the post shortly after the general election.

Following the acquisition of 36 care homes from Southern Cross Health Care, Maria Mallaband Care Group has made several new appointments and changes to its management structure.

Four Seasons Health Care’s chairman Ian Smith has stepped down after four years in the role, after he said the business had been successfully reshaped into three divisions ahead of the next stage of its development. He will remain as a special advisor to the board of the UK’s largest care home group with the remit of promoting Four Seasons’ interests and those of the broader care home and mental health sector.

Specialist care provider Danshell has made two key appointments to its board. Clynt Hall joins the operator of residential services for people with learning...

Regard chief executive Sandie Foxall-Smith has been shortlisted for leader of the year in the global Investors in People Awards.

East Anglian provider Healthcare Homes has appointed three new managers at facilities located in Suffolk and Cambridge.

Social housing and elderly care provider Housing 21 has announced the appointment of Lord Ben Stoneham as chair designate to replace retiring chair, Professor David Grayson CBE.

Heritage Healthcare, provider of home-based care, has promoted Moira Willis to the position of care manager following the promotion of Michelle Fenwick to operations manager.

Domiciliary care agency SureCare has appointed Rob Parsons as business development manager. He previously held the same position at Archangel Homecare in Staffordshire.

Jim Easton will join Care UK as managing director of its healthcare division from January 2013. He is currently national director of improvement and efficiency at the Department of Health and was a member of the NHS Commissioning Board.