Discussions about formalising the organisation of Care Forum Wales have taken place to enable it to focus on its key aims in future.

Members present at the May CFW Council meeting agreed the first priority is to create a new chief executive post as part of the move to replace the current informal structure.

Mary Wimbury, senior policy officer for CFW, has accepted the role of interim chief executive.

She said: “The current informal arrangements are creating difficulties with operational and financial arrangements and have proved to be a distraction from the focus on the strategic aims and direction of our organisation.

“The time has come for formal structures and the first task is creating the post of the chief executive.

“We are proposing an initial arrangement that can be developed into a fully-fledged organisation structure. I will take on the post of interim chief executive and this has now been confirmed by our council.

“Mary is working with Mario, Malcolm and Sanjiv in putting together a paper which will look at the role and structure of CFW and its officers.”