Board changes at West Midlands trusts

Martin Gower, the current chair of Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, has been announced at the new chair at South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.

The appointment follows the retirement of the current chair, Steve Jones, who has been at South Staffordshire and Shropshire for the past 12 years.

Mr Gower said: “While I will be very sad to leave Coventry and Warwickshire, where I believe the trust has a very strong team, I am delighted to be joining Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare which I recognise to be an ambitious and expansive organisation”.

Coventry and Warwickshire will now enter an appointments process managed by the NHS Trust Development Authority to select its new chair.