Deirdre Kelly one of the first three Commissioners

On 1st September 2008, the Lunar Society Chair, Deirdre Kelly, Professor of Pediatric Hepatology at Birmingham Children's Hospital was made one of the first three Commissioners on the Shadow Care Quality Commission.

She is joined by Lord Patel of Bradford OBE (Kamlesh Patel), Chairman, Mental Health Act Commission and Dame Jo Williams, Chief Executive, Royal Mencap Society.

Barbara Young, Shadow Chair of the Care Quality Commission, welcomed the appointments.

"I am very pleased to be joined by Commissioners who bring a depth and breadth of experience across the new Commission's roles. I welcomed the commitment in our founding Act, the Health and Social Care Act 2008, to ensure that health, social care and mental health backgrounds were well represented at Commissioner level.

We are now aiming to recruit a further three Commissioners who will bring user interests to the heart of the Care Quality Commission as well as strengthening our financial and risk governance and providing clinical outcome or health or regulatory policy strength at Commission level."