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Mr. Baker
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what criteria he will be using to decide whom to appoint to the boards of NHS trusts. [7963]
Mr. Milburn
The Department has recently issued revised guidelines on the qualities we will be looking for in non-executive directors of NHS trusts. The guidelines are designed to make boards much more representative of the communities they serve; to encourage more NHS users and carers to become members of boards; and to ensure that all candidates are personally committed to the national health service.