Region. Chair of local health network

Stephen Leader, professor of public health at the University of Sydney, will chair the governing council of the Western Sydney Local Health Network He is the chair of one of 18 networks in NSW which will come into being on January 2011. The networks are a key plank of health reforms agreed with the commonwealth in April 2010, and will have their own budgets, management and accountabilities. The networks will be administered by a CEO as well as a governing council that includes clinicians, health and health care management experts and community representatives. Recruitment of CEOs will start shortly.