Guidance

DHSC public appointments: 2024 to 2025

Non-executive appointments to the Department of Health and Social Care's public bodies and committees from October 2024 to March 2025.

Applies to England

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Information about appointments made between January and September 2024 is available on the public appointments announcements page.

See DHSC non-executive appointments for appointments made between 2013 and 2023.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care appoints the chairs and other non-executive members of the following bodies:

  • Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards (chair and medical director only)
  • Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (chair only)
  • British Pharmacopoeia Commission
  • Care Quality Commission (including Healthwatch England chair)
  • Commission on Human Medicines
  • Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment
  • Food Standards Agency
  • Health Research Authority
  • Health Services Safety Investigations Body
  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority
  • Human Tissue Authority
  • Independent Reconfiguration Panel
  • Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • NHS Blood and Transplant
  • NHS Business Services Authority
  • NHS Counter Fraud Authority 
  • NHS England
  • NHS Pay Review Body (chair is appointed by the Prime Minister)
  • NHS Pensions Board (chair only)
  • NHS Resolution
  • Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (chair only)
  • Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration (chair is appointed by the Prime Minister)
  • UK Health Security Agency

The Secretary of State is also responsible for appointing:

  • the National Data Guardian
  • the Patient Safety Commissioner
  • non-executive members of the Department of Health and Social Care’s departmental board

For further information on public appointments, contact appointments.team@dhsc.gov.uk.

Updates to this page

Published 3 October 2024
Last updated 1825 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added re-appointment of Professor Sir Munir Pirmohamed as Chair of the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM) and re-appointment of Sue Douthwaite as Chair of the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).

  2. Added details of: the re-appointment of members and the interim Chair of the NHS Pay Review Body; the re-appointment of members and appointment of new members of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration; the extension of the Chair of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority; the re-appointment of members of the British Pharmacopoeia Commission.

  3. Added re-appointment of Lord Kakkar as Chair of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR).

  4. First published.

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