East Anglian Ambulance trust has appointed Seamus Elliott as director of human resources. For the past six years he has been director of organisational development for Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance and Paramedic Service trust.

Andrew Spring, director of finance at Leicester General Hospital trust, has been appointed director of finance and performance management at Doncaster health authority. He succeeds Alan Wittrick, who was recently appointed director of finance at Sheffield HA.

David Bullock will become chair of Mid Essex Hospital Services trust in December, when Sir Jeffery Bowman steps down. Mr Bullock has been chair of Mid Essex Community and Mental Health trust for two-and-a-half years.

Two non-executive directors have been appointed to Isle of Wight Healthcare trust - Shirley Hardy, a management consultant and former chief executive of Croydon HA, and Rodney Ireland, a former director of South Thames College.

Surrinder Kaur is the newly appointed consortium manager for Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Southern Derbyshire Education Consortium. She was formerly at Birmingham University Hospital trust.

Oxfordshire Community Health trust has a new non-executive director - Professor Martin Avis, a property consultant and former head of the school of real estate management at Oxford Brookes University.