NHS West Midlands today announced the appointment of Mohammad Nazir as a Non-executive Director.

Mohammad has 20 years of experience in the private, public and social enterprise sectors.  He is currently Chairman of the European Halal Development Agency, Business Development Executive of Pak Supermarkets Ltd., and runs a business consultancy company, Nazir Associates.  He is also the Chairman of the West Midlands Ethnic Minority Business Forum and was previously a Non-executive Director of Walsall’s Urban Regeneration Company.  He is a member of various regional business and enterprise boards. 

Mohammad has taken over from Donald McIntosh, who left NHS West Midlands in July 2009 at the end of his third term as Non-executive Director. The appointment of Mohammad Nazir will take effect from 1 February 2010 for four years.

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Information about this review programme, including proposed visit dates, was sent to PCTs and acute Trusts on 4th December 2009. PCTs and Trusts have been asked to confirm their visit dates and nominate contacts for each of the areas being reviewed. More detail, including draft Quality Standards for urgent care and vascular services, will be available by the end of December 2009.

Degree only “pre-registration” nurse education is coming. West Midlands NHS wishes to be in the vanguard of this reform to nursing. Please click on this link to learn more and to fill in one of our questionnaires. It will take no more than a minute or two of your time and by doing so you will help us work out how to get there. Thank you for taking part.

"Our Year" is our Annual Report for 2008-09 - Read about our year and view a summary of our accounts here. We welcome any comments on our Annual Report and the way it is published. These should be sent to  communicationsandpublicaffairs@westmidlands.nhs.uk

 If you experience a sudden fever, cough or shortness of breath or have a headache, sore throat, tiredness, aching muscles, chills, sneezing, runny nose or loss of appetite you may have swine flu.

 For most people this is a mild illness and you should start to feel better after a few days without needing to go to your GP or A&E.

Help yourself and others by not spreading the virus and spread this advice instead.

The best thing you can do is stay at home, rest, drink plenty of fluids and take over-the-counter flu remedies to help relieve the symptoms.

It is particularly important that you talk to your doctor if you think you have swine flu and are pregnant, very young, over 65, or have long-term conditions such as asthma or diabetes.

For more information, visit the NHS Choices swine flu pages by clicking the 'Read More' link below.

Legislation due to be enacted by summer 2009 will require healthcare providers to publish their ‘Quality Accounts’ from April 2010, just as they publish financial accounts. These will be reports to the public on the quality of services they provide in every service line- and will focus on safety, experience and outcomes.

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