NHS South of England Regional Director Appointed

Andrea Young, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer for NHS South of England, has been appointed as the NHS National Commissioning Board’s regional director for the South of England.

As part of the reform of the NHS, a National Commissioning Board Authority has been established which will have four regional directors as part of its senior leadership team.  They will provide strategic leadership for the Board across the regions, including co-ordination and oversight of local areas teams.

Andrea was Chief Executive of South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) from 1 October 2009 until 1 October 2011 when the SHA merged with South East Coast SHA and South West SHA.

She said:  “I am delighted to have been appointed to this post and really looking forward to helping to shape a commissioning system for the health service that improves outcomes for patients.”

Prior to joining the Strategic Health Authority Andrea was the Chief Executive of NHS Oxfordshire, a post which she took up in October 2006. Early in her career she worked in research, health policy and public health strategy roles before taking on a series of increasingly senior roles in Oxfordshire Health Authority.

One of her first tasks as a regional director in the new NHS will be to work with Primary Care Trusts and SHA clusters to co-design a proposal for the final model of the Commissioning Board’s network of local area teams.

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Notes:  The NHS Commissioning Board press release can be seen at http://www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/category/news/