New chief for Public Health Wales

THE Welsh Assembly Government has today announced the appointment of Bob Hudson as Chief Executive of Public Health Wales.

Public Health Wales will go live on October 1, 2009, taking on the roles of National Public Health Service for Wales, the Wales Centre for Health, the Welsh Cancer and Intelligence and Surveillance Unit, the Congenital Anomaly Register and Information Service and Screening Services Wales.

Mr Hudson said:

“I am delighted to have been appointed as the Chief Executive of the new Public Health Wales NHS Trust. The new organisation has a critical role to play in both protecting and improving the health of the people of Wales.

“I am very much looking forward to working with the staff of the new organisation and key partners in facing the challenges ahead.”

Professor Mansel Aylward, Chair of Public Health Wales, added:

“I am sure that Bob Hudson, with his great strengths in the management of change within complex organisations and strategic development of the NHS, will greatly assist us in Public Health Wales in taking forward this new organisation to unbounded success.”

The organisation will work in partnership with the seven Local Health Boards and with Local Authorities, to bring public health to the citizen and to the community.

In order to deliver its remit, Public Health Wales will benefit from having its own Board comprising seven non-executive directors (including the Chair) and five executive directors.