Steve Bundred has been appointed as the new Chair of Monitor, the Independent regulator of NHS foundation trusts.
Steve Bundred succeeds Dr William Moyes, who completed his term of office at the end of January 2010. His appointment is for a term of four years.
Steve has been Chief Executive of the Audit Commission since 1 September 2003. Prior to joining the Audit Commission, he was Executive Director of the Improvement and Development Agency for local government. Before that Steve was the Chief Executive of the London Borough of Camden for seven years, having previously been its Director of Finance. He has also previously worked for Lewisham and Hackney councils and London University’s Birkbeck College.
Steve Bundred said: “I am delighted to have been asked to become Chairman of Monitor. It has a very significant role to play in steering the NHS through a critical period ahead and I am looking forward to this challenge.”
Sir David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive, added: “We are entering an exciting and radical phase of reform in the NHS as we seek to deliver increasingly high quality and productive healthcare. Crucially, this phase will be driven from the bottom up, built on the local interactions between patients and clinicians. Foundation Trusts are a key part of this agenda. With their community-based membership they can look out to the particular needs of their local populations rather than up to Whitehall.
“I know Steve is very supportive of putting quality at the heart of the NHS and I am confident that under his chairmanship, Monitor will play a key role in supporting the redesign of health services around the needs of patients.”
Monitor is the independent regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts and is responsible for authorising, monitoring and regulating NHS Foundation Trusts.