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NHSScotland Chief Executive to move
14/07/2004
Trevor Jones, Chief Executive of NHSScotland and head of
the Executive's Health Department for the last four years,
is leaving to take up a new job in England.
He has been appointed Chief Executive of Avon,
Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority in
succession to Geoff Scaife, former Chief Executive of
NHSScotland, who was killed in a car accident in April this
year.
Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm said:
"I would like to thank Trevor Jones for his contribution
to developing the Health Service in Scotland and wish him
well in his new role."
Mr Jones, 53, said:
"For the second time in my career I am to succeed Geoff
Scaife. I will be very sorry to leave Scotland. I have
hugely enjoyed my years here but this is a very exciting
challenge back in the NHS frontline. I look forward to
building on the excellent foundations laid by Geoff over
the last 18 months in addressing very difficult issues and
developing services in my new post."
Details of timing of Mr Jones's formal departure and the
process of finding his successor will be announced
later.
Biography
Trevor Jones was born in Penshaw, County Durham, and
spent ten years in local government before joining the NHS
in 1978 as senior regional treasurer in the Northern Region
of England.
He was deputy treasurer for the South Manchester Health
Authority (1983-86) before moving to Waltham Forest Health
Authority in north east London as finance director. He
worked closely with Christine Hancock and succeeded her as
chief executive when she left to become General Secretary
of the Royal College of Nursing.
In 1991 he established the Forest Healthcare NHS Trust,
then the third largest in England was its chief executive
until 1995 when he was appointed chief executive of Lothian
Health Board.
During his five years in Lothian he led a programme of
major service changes including planning for the new
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, new buildings at the Western
General and developing community learning disability
services which led to the closure of the old Gogarburn
Hospital - the site of which is now the global HQ for the
Royal Bank of Scotland group.
In 2000, he succeeded Geoff Scaife to be head of the
Scottish Executive Health Department and Chief Executive of
the NHS in Scotland.
Mr Jones and his wife Hazel live in Peebles. His outside
interests include a lifelong passion for Sunderland
Football Club.