A senior figure at the Care Quality Commission and a consultant respiratory physician are to take over as joint chairmen at Education for Health to lead the organisation into a new phase in its development.
Professor Ursula Gallagher is deputy chief inspector of general practice nursing lead at the CQC, and a member of the Department of Health ‘Payment by results’ clinical advisory group.
Dr Robert Angus is a consultant physician specialising in respiratory disease at University Hospital Aintree, and a regular contributor to national and international guidelines.
They take over from Dr Jonathan Shapiro who has led the education charity for the last 9 years.
In a joint statement, Professor Gallagher and Dr Angus said: ‘This is an exciting time for Education for Health as it has secured revalidation of its undergraduate programmes. As it approaches revalidation of its Masters programme, the educational portfolio is the strongest it has been.
‘The need for post qualification training is greater than it ever has been.’
They added: ‘One of the biggest challenges to the NHS is to find a way to invest in the training of its staff.
‘With the declared forthcoming NHS focus on respiratory and cardiac conditions, we are ideally placed to partner the NHS in skilling up its workforce.’
