The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 271 No 7277 p732
29 November 2003

This article
Reprint
Photocopy

News summary

Related websites
National Patient Safety Agency (www.npsa.nhs.uk)

Lord Hunt to chair new safety agency

Lord Hunt, a former junior health minister, has been appointed chairman of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA).

Lord Hunt was selected by the National Health Service Appointments Commission to succeed Professor Rory Shaw, who has chaired the agency since its inception in July 2001. Lord Hunt was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health in the House of Lords from 1999 until early in 2003. During his time as a minister he held responsibility for NHS pharmacy services. He was one of three ministers who resigned from the Government over its decision to take Britain to war against Iraq.

The NPSA is a special health authority and is responsible for co-ordinating the efforts of the NHS in England and Wales to report and learn from mistakes and to put in place measures to prevent them recurring.