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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.