Ruth Mary Hussey CB

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DL was the

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. She was appointed in 2012, succeeding

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. She retired in March 2016.

Biography

Hussey was born in the

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, and lived there until she studied medicine at the

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. She was a committee member and honorary life member of the

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. She was also regional director of public health and senior medical at NHS North West. In 2017-18, Hussey chaired a panel of experts who looked for ways to improve the health and social care system in Wales. The panel proposed far-reaching changes to the system.

Awards and honours

* Hussey was appointed

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(CB) in the

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.Wales Online, "New Year's Honours list 2016: The full list of Welsh honours"
Accessed 30 December 2015

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of Liverpool Chief Medical Officers for Wales 20th-century Welsh medical doctors 21st-century Welsh medical doctors Companions of the Order of the Bath Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Welsh women medical doctors 21st-century Welsh women medical doctors Deputy lieutenants of Merseyside {{UK-med-bio-stub