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NHS Education for Scotland
22/03/2006
The re-appointment of Mr Tesfu Gessesse, Professor Valerie Maehle, Dr Susan Whyte, Dr Lindsay Burley and Professor John Rae to the Board of NHS Education for Scotland (NES) was announced today.
Mr Tesfu Gessesse MSc, PGCCE, Dip Acc, MCMI, is Director for the Black Community Development Project. He has been a non-executive Director of NES for the past four years and is the founding member and current Chair of EMPOWER Scotland. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations for six years and prior to that was chair of Edinburgh & Lothian's Racial Equality Council and the Africa Centre Scotland. He does not hold any other ministerial appointments.
Professor Valerie Maehle is Dean of the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen which provides professional education for nurses, midwives, pharmacists, social workers and a wide range of the Allied Health Professions. Professor Maehle has been a member of the Board of NES since 2002. She is also a Member of Grampian NHS Board, for which she receives annual remuneration of £7,490, and is Chair of the Aberdeenshire Community Health Partnership. She was previously a member of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council.
Dr Susan Whyte joined the Board of NHS Education for Scotland in 2002 from a background of medical education through the Royal Colleges and West of Scotland Deanery. She has worked in NHS medicine for 35 years mainly as a Consultant Psychiatrist in the West of Scotland and still has a substantial clinical commitment. She was Chair of the Scottish Joint Consultants Committee providing links between the SEHD, the British Medical Association and the Royal Colleges. Prior to this she had been Chair of both the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Scotland and of the Academy of Royal Colleges in Scotland. She currently Chairs the Educational Quality Assurance Committee in NES and the new Transitional Board for run through training in Psychiatry. She does not hold any other ministerial appointments.
After a career as a physician and manager in the Scottish NHS, latterly as chief executive of Borders Health Board, Dr Lindsay Burley now works as a business coach and mediator. She is also Chair of the National Waiting Times Centre Board for Scotland, for which she receives annual remunueration of £23,520. She has been a member of the Board of NES since 2002, is a member of Court at Napier University, and chairs the Dementia Services Development Trust at Stirling University.
Professor John Rae is the Dean of the School of Health, Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Paisley. He preserves and promotes strong links with the National Health Service locally and nationally. A Nurse by profession he worked within the NHS until 1996, latterly in Nurse education, before transferring to the Higher Education sector in 1996. He has been a member of the Board of NES since 2002 He does not hold any other ministerial appointments.
Mr Gessesse's re-appointment will be for a period of two years from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2008, Professor Maehle and Dr Whyte's re-appointment will be for a period of three years from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2009 and Dr Burley and Professor Rae's re-appointment will be for a period of four years from April 1, 2006 to March 31, 2010.
These posts are part time with a time commitment of eight hours per week for which the annual remuneration is £7,490.
NES is the Health Service's own training organisation. It has statutory functions to enable it to fulfil its remit of promoting best practice in the education and lifelong learning of all NHS staff.
Ministerial re-appointments were made in accordance with the Code of Practice issued by the Office of the Commisioner for Public Appointments in Scotland.
All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is a requirement for appointees' political activity (if any declared) to be made public. Within the last five years, none of the above re-appointees have been involved in any political activity.