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NHS Health Scotland Board
27/03/2007
Health Minister Andy Kerr today announced five non-executive member re-appointments to the Board of the NHS Health Scotland.
Ms Neelam Bakshi is an executive coach and training consultant, specialising in organisational and personal change. She has considerable experience at strategic and operational levels in the public sector, and much of her work has been in supporting organisations to develop competence in promoting equality and diversity. She is also a lay member of Employment Tribunals. She holds no other ministerial appointments.
Mr James Friend was previously a Consultant Respiratory Physician at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, and Chair of the Government Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health. He is a Board Member of Mental Health Aberdeen, a local charity delivering services and campaigning for mental health promotion. He is a member of the Scottish Ministerial Working Group on Tobacco Control (this post is not remunerated). He holds no other Ministerial appointments.
Mr Nigel Henderson has been Chief Executive of Penumbra (a leading Scottish mental health voluntary organisation) since 1999. He is currently convener of Community Care Providers Scotland (CCPS) and a member of the management groups of the 'see me' anti stigma campaign and the Scottish Recovery Network. Nigel is also co-chair of the service development group, which is part of the implementation of the 'Changing Lives' review of social work services in Scotland. Nigel is qualifed as both a mental health and general nurse and previously worked in the NHS and various national mental health voluntary organisations. He does not hold any other ministerial appointments.
Ms Jan Webb is Director of the Graduate School in Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Vice Chair of the Scottish Low Pay Unit. She teaches classes on the sociology of work and economic life and manages postgraduate research programmes. Her own research is concerned with the effects of large organisations on people's lives, health and well-being. She is currently developing research on climate change and the role of organisations in reducing greenhouse gases. She does not hold any other ministerial appointments.
Dr Helen Zealley was Director of Public Health in Lothian until she retired in 2000. She has been a member of the Board of NHS Health Scotland since 2003 and a member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency since 2006 (a post for which she receives £6,178 p.a.). Within the voluntary sector she is Chair of Friends of the Earth Scotland, a Director of Waverley Care and an adviser to the Cyrenians Fare Share Healthy Eating project.
Mr Friend and Dr Zeally's re-appointments shall be for a period of two years from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2009. The other 3 members have all been re-appointed for a period of four years from April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2011.
These posts are part time with a time commitment of eight hours per week for which the annual remuneration is £7,620.
NHS Health Scotland aim to:
- Deliver health improvement programmes to a wide variety of audiences and stakeholders working to improve Scotland's health
- Employ knowledge about health and its determinants in a way that will influence policy and practice to improve health within Scotland
- Play a key role in the successful implementation of programmes of health improvement
These Ministerial appointments were made in accordance with Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland (OCPAS) Code of Practice.
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.