2 new Independent Members for the Health Board

In welcoming them, Prof Merfyn Jones, Chairman said “We are delighted that Cllr Liz Roberts and Mrs Marian Jones will be joining the Health Board.  Cllr Roberts will be the Independent Member (Local Authority), and Mrs. Jones will be the Independent Member (Community).  Both members bring a range of experience and expertise from beyond the NHS that benefits the organisation, as well as acting as public representatives.  We look forward to working with them”.

 

Cllr Liz Roberts – Cllr Roberts lives in Dolwyddelan.  She is presently the Cabinet Member for Health and Social care at Conwy County Borough Council with responsibility for Adults and Children; a position she has held since 2008, having been elected as ward member for Betws y Coed in 2004.  In addition she has more recently been appointed as a member of the Welsh Government’s National Social Services Partnership Forum.

 

Liz is no stranger to health.  Her professional background has been within the field of Nursing, with a career spanning 40 years within the NHS.  From 1990 to 2008 she was a Health Visitor in Blaenau Ffestiniog, with a strong emphasis on multiagency partnership working and integrated family support.  She received a ‘Good Health’ Wales Award in 1994, an Excellence in Nursing Award in 2006, and in 2010 a further national award for her intervention in the care of the elderly.  In addition Liz is a school governor for both Dolwyddelan and Ysgol Dyffryn Conwy.  She is Chair of Menter Siabod, a community action group in the village of Dolwyddelan which she instigated in 2003, and represents Menter Siabod on both the Rural Development Partnership and Conwy Voluntary Services Council.

 

Cllr Roberts said “I am delighted to have been appointed as Independent Member to the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board. As an elected member I am well aware of the challenging times ahead both for the statutory services and the Communities of which we serve. More than ever, there is a vital role for all partners from the statutory, health and voluntary Services to work together to ensure that the needs of the residents in our communities are addressed.  It is only by communicating together that these needs can be realised. I look forward in my new role at Board level to undertaking this vital activity in making a difference to the health and well being of our communities.”

 

Mrs Marian Wyn Jones – Marian is the former Head of Centre for the BBC in North Wales, a role which she carried out for fifteen years.  She began her Journalistic career as a Graduate News Trainee with the BBC in London and went on to become an award winning journalist and documentary maker.  She has worked on a wide variety of Radio and TV programmes in Wales and on the Network in a hugely successful broadcasting career which spanned three decades.

 

A fluent Welsh speaker, Marian was brought up at Tywyn, Gwynedd and now lives in Caernarfon. She is currently working as a Media Consultant and is involved with a number of charities and public organisations. She is a member of the Snowdonia National Park Authority, a Director of the renowned William Mathias Music Centre, a Council member of Bangor University and has recently been appointed Chair of Governors at Ysgol Uwchradd Syr Hugh Owen.

 

 

“I am really looking forward to this challenging role. I have always empathised strongly with communities across North Wales and I‘m passionate about improving the quality of care. The ever increasing demands for healthcare in a difficult economic climate suggest that the NHS agenda has never been tougher. But I’ve always thrived on new challenges and I’m delighted to have been given this opportunity to make a difference.”