A FORMER council boss has been appointed to the board of NHS Blackburn with Darwen.

Phil Watson CBE, former chief executive of Blackburn with Darwen Council, has been appo-inted a non-executive director for four years.

Andrew Medd, from Hoddlesden, a chartered mechanical engineer, has also been appointed to the board, while Joe Slater, has been re-appointed.

Nick Kennedy, Chairman of NHS Blackburn with Darwen said; “We wish to thank retiring non executive directors, Lesley Bassett and Janaid Qureshi, neither of whom, for personal reasons, applied for reappointment.”