Cynthia Bower new CX of Care Quality Commission

On 22nd July 2008, it was announced that Lunarwoman Cynthia Bower will be the Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission.

She graduated from Birmingham University and began her professional life in social care. She spent a number of years working with children in a variety of settings and managing social care services for children. She moved the the health Service in 1995 to work for Birmingham Health Authority,k working as Director of primary Care at the time of the establishment of Primary Care Groups and the first wave PCTs.

In 200 she became Chief Executive of Birmingham Specialist Community Healthy NHS Trust and in 2002 Chief Executive of South Birmingham PCT. In August 2005 she became Managing Director of Birmingham and the Black Country SHA.

On 1 June 2006, Cynthnia became Acting Chief Executive for Birmingham and the Black Country Strategic Health Authority and subsequently the interim Chief Executive for NHS West Midlands. She was appointed as the substantive Chief Executive for NHS West Midlands on 9 March 2007.