DHSC public appointments: 2024 to 2025
Non-executive appointments to the Department of Health and Social Care's public bodies and committees from October 2024 to March 2025.
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Information about appointments made between January and September 2024 is available on the public appointments announcements page.
See DHSC non-executive appointments for appointments made between 2013 and 2023.
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care appoints the chairs and other non-executive members of the following bodies:
- Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards (chair and medical director only)
- Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (chair only)
- British Pharmacopoeia Commission
- Care Quality Commission (including Healthwatch England chair)
- Commission on Human Medicines
- Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
- Food Standards Agency
- Health Research Authority
- Health Services Safety Investigations Body
- Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
- Human Tissue Authority
- Independent Reconfiguration Panel
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- NHS Blood and Transplant
- NHS Business Services Authority
- NHS Counter Fraud Authority
- NHS England
- NHS Pay Review Body (chair is appointed by the Prime Minister)
- NHS Pensions Board (chair only)
- NHS Resolution
- Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (chair only)
- Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (chair is appointed by the Prime Minister)
- UK Health Security Agency
The Secretary of State is also responsible for appointing:
- the National Data Guardian
- the Patient Safety Commissioner
- non-executive members of the Department of Health and Social Care’s departmental board
For further information on public appointments, contact appointments.team@dhsc.gov.uk.
Updates to this page
Published 3 October 2024Last updated 10 December 2024 + show all updates
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Added details of the re-appointment of Dr Mark Chakravarty, Jackie Fielding, Professor Bee Wee and Dr Justin Whatling as non-executive directors of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Alina Lourie as chair of NICE's Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC).
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Added details of the re-appointment of a member of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration.
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Added details of the re-appointment of NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) chair and non-executive director, and appointment of NHSBT Audit and Risk Committee chair.
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Added appointment of MHRA chair.
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Added appointment of Alan Milburn as lead non-executive member to the board of the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Added re-appointment of Susan Jebb as the chair of the Food Standards Agency.
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Added the appointment and re-appointment of various members to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
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Added appointment of a new member of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP).
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Added re-appointment of Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed as Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) and re-appointment of Sue Douthwaite as Chair of the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).
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Added details of: the re-appointment of members and the interim Chair of the NHS Pay Review Body; the re-appointment of members and appointment of new members of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration; the extension of the Chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority; the re-appointment of members of the British Pharmacopoeia Commission.
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Added re-appointment of Lord Kakkar as Chair of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR).
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First published.