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Published: 14/02/2002, Volume II2, No. 5792 Page 33

West Midlands regional director Stephen Day has been appointed chief executive of Broadland primary care trust in Norfolk.Mr Day, who has worked in the NHS since 1972, has been regional director since 1996.

He will take up his new appointment at the end of the month.

Rachel Tyndall has been appointed chief executive designate of Islington primary care trust. She is currently strategic development and commissioning director at Camden and Islington health authority, where she has led development work on the PCT.

Vourneen 'Jo'Darbyshire has been appointed as chair of Lancashire Care trust, which will be established on 1 April.She is currently chair of North West Lancashire health authority.

The newly established Pennine Care trust, which will provide mental health services across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Thameside and Glossop, will be chaired by Terence McCabe.He is currently chair of West Pennine health authority.

Pennine Acute Hospitals trust, formed by a four-way trust merger, will be chaired by Steven Price.He is currently chair of Rochdale Healthcare trust and a director of the town's Springhill Hospice.

Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead primary care trust has appointed four non-executive directors.They are former Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead finance director Anthony Dixon, Jeremy Hyde, leader of the council's Liberal Democrat group, Conservative councillor and solicitor Peter Simpson, and Lorna Jacobs, a magistrate and lay member of Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead primary care group.

Suzi Leather has been appointed chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, succeeding Ruth Deech.She will be joined as an authority member by Professor Christopher Barratt, scientific director of Birmingham Women's Hospital's assisted conception unit.Ms Leather is currently deputy chair of the Food Standards Agency.

Alan Bedford, chief executive of East Sussex, Brighton and Hove health authority, has been seconded to Portsmouth Hospitals trust as acting chief executive.