Ian Cumming (above) has become chief executive of the recently created Morecambe Bay Hospitals trust. He was formerly chief executive of Lancaster Acute Hospitals trust and oversaw its merger with Furness Hospitals trust and Westmorland Hospitals trust to form the organisation he now leads.

Sue Page, former chief executive of North Tyneside Health Care trust, has become chief executive of Northumbria Healthcare trust.

Her appointment follows the announcement that Brian Flood will chair the new organisation.

Doreen Hood and Ian Swithenbank have been named non-executive directors.

The newly created Gateshead Health trust has announced two senior appointments. Chris Reed and has been appointed chief executive and Chris Macklin finance director.

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital trust has appointed finance director John Pelly to the new board-level post of chief operating officer.

The United Kingdom Transplant Support Service Authority has a new chair. John Shaw, former director of corporate affairs for the NHS Executive, takes over from John Evans, who has held the post since UKTSSA was created in 1991.

Royal Brompton and Harefield trust has announced that Charles Perrin, vice-chair of SG Hambros Bank, Susannah O'Donnell, a consultant at KPMG, and Professor Philip Poole-Wilson, head of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College School of Medicine, have been appointed non-executive directors.

Professor Michael Farthing has been appointed as a non-executive director of East London and the City health authority. He is director of clinical services at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Newham Healthcare trust has appointed David Gilles as a non-executive director. He was chief executive of Tower Hamlets Housing Action Trust.

Helen Dent, chief executive of the Family Welfare Association, and Shireen Chantler, scientific adviser for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, have been appointed non-executive directors of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children trust. Roger Horn, a chartered surveyor, has been re-appointed as a non-executive director.

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