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Stephen Billingham has been appointed chairman of the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Stephen Billingham has been appointed chairman of the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Pubco boss chairs Royal Berks


June 29, 2012

A pubco boss has been appointed chairman of the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Stephen Billingham takes up the post on Monday.

Mr Billingham has a successful track record in the private sector and currently Chairman of Punch Taverns plc – the second largest pub group in the UK.

He is also a Government appointed non executive member of the URENCO Board and chairman of the Audit Committee.

He was finance director of British Energy Group plc, the FTSE 100 company and the UK’s largest energy generator.

Mr Billingham has also worked with WS Atkins as group finance director and goup treasurer of the engineering group BICC - now Balfour Beatty.

He lives in in Burnham in Buckinghamshire.

Mr Billingham replaces Colin Maclean who stepped down as chairman after 11 years.
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   Every day, the Britain I live in and the Britain I would like to live in slip apart, like greased icebergs. The man's an accountant, put in nominal charge of the board of whatever trust runs the Royal Berks this week. Imagine every square inch of the hospital concerned less with clinical excellence, and more with revenue-generating opportunities. Friends of the hospital might count their days. Woe, twice and thrice woe.
Randall Slick, East Reading
02/07/2012 at 22:52 Offensive or Inappropriate?
   Well, if he thinks he's going to check MY prostate, he's got another think coming
MauriceM, West Reading
30/06/2012 at 08:39 Offensive or Inappropriate?
   Pubcos, drowning in their own debt created by borrowing against over inflated asset values.

As LabCon PPI disaster starts to hit the fan, this could be a genius appointment!

Fledgling Reading
29/06/2012 at 14:36 Offensive or Inappropriate?
   Further evidence,if any were needed of just how ludicrous this country has become,no doubt next we will have MacDonald's bosses on the NHS management after creating the crap foods that make so many Brit's disgustingly obese!
Dustybin, Reading
29/06/2012 at 11:24 Offensive or Inappropriate?
   Actually, it is literally what you need. Someone who has been relatively successful in the business world who can help contribute towards the efficient running of the hospital.

You seem to have an overinflated concept of the power the chairman has though
ProfessorApe
29/06/2012 at 11:22 Offensive or Inappropriate?
   Punch taverns, well known for pricing their landlords out of business by charging excessive rents and tying them in to financially unviable supply contracts. Great choice by the government there, nice to see it's not simply jobs for the boys as usual.
whitespirit
29/06/2012 at 11:00 Offensive or Inappropriate?
   Oh blimey thats all we need - a business man in charge of a hospital - he'll get his name plate on his office door first thing - I bet ya ! and then get several managerial assistants. The patients will become a nuisance to him and his profit margins and he won't even know there is an oath that all doctors and nurses make when they are in training. Gawd 'elp us all.
Georger, RG30
29/06/2012 at 10:44 Offensive or Inappropriate?
 
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