Cynthia Bower named new Care Quality Commission Chief Executive

25 July 2008

Barbara Young, Chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has announced that Cynthia Bower has been appointed as the Commission’s Chief Executive.

Cynthia Bower is currently Chief Executive of NHS West Midlands. She has previously held posts as chief executive of a community health trust and a primary care trust.

CQC will come into being in April 2009 and will be the new health and social care regulator replacing the work done by the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission.