THE new chairman of Hywel Dda University Health Board was announced by the Health Minister Mark Drakeford today (June 9).

Bernardine Rees OBE (pictured) will take over from Chris Martin who retired this month. Mrs Rees takes up her role from July 1 and will serve a four-year term until July 31, 2018. Mrs Rees is currently serving as a non-executive director of the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust. She will resign this position to assume her new role at Hywel Dda University Health Board.

Mrs Rees, who trained as a nurse and lives in Ceredigion, was chief executive of the former Pembrokeshire Local Health Board and Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire local health boards between 2003 and 2009.

Read about Mrs Rees’ background and career history

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