Zahida Manzoor

Zahida Parveen Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor CBE ( born May 25, 1958 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan) is an English businesswoman, and since 2013 a member of the Upper House.

Manzoor was, Pakistan (military veteran and businessman) and his wife Mahroof Ahmed was born in Rawalpindi, the daughter of Nazir Ahmed, who - when she was four years old - immigrated to England. First she became a nurse to finish in 1983 at the University of Leeds and in 1989 with an MA from the University of Bradford their studies. She was a lecturer, before she could continue her career in the National Health Service.

Career

From 1992 to 1997, Manzoor chairman of the Bradford Health Authority, before she was appointed from 1997 to 2001 to one of eight regional chairman of the National Health Service ( NHS). In this role, she was responsible for the region of North East England, North West England and Yorkshire, with a budget of £ 3.5 billion and a population of 6.3 million people. At the same time she was a member of the Policy Board, the Board of Directors of the NHS.

Member of the British Commission for Racial Equality she's since 1993 and was (1993 to 1995), its deputy chairman. Since 1999 she has worked for the Foreign Office as an independent consultant. From 1997 to 2003 she served as a trustee on the board of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( National Society for the Protection of children against cruelty ( NSPCC ) ). From 1996 to 2003 she was co-founder and director of the Intellisys Limited, a management consultancy in the field of information technology. In 1992, she was appointed by the Privy Council as a member of the Board of the University of Bradford. 1991-1993 she was a member of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Hallam University. 1990-1996 she was Regional Director of Common Purpose Charitable Trust. From 2003 to 2011 she served as Legal Services Ombudsman ( ombudsman ) in the Public Health Service for England and Wales responsible for determining appeals in health care and directly accountable to Parliament. During this time she was able to bring significant improvements in the legal status of the professional associations. They also initiated an investigation into the handling of personal injury of miners, which led to substantial compensation for the benefit of the profession. In 2004 she was appointed by the Lord Chancellor to the Commissioner for England and Wales, to act in this capacity as the head of an auditor to government decisions and their monitoring in the health service. To this end, this point has been granted considerable powers to ensure purported to improve the complaints or the contradictions can. This purpose was served, inter alia, Fines of up to £ 1 million. During her tenure (until April 2010), they could enforce numerous improvements. On September 6, 2013, it was to the peerage as a life peer with the title Baroness Manzoor, of Knightsbridge in the Royal Borough of Kensington. collected and sworn in on 10 October 2013.

She is married to Madassar Manzoor since 1984 and has two daughters.

Awards

• Life Peer, Member of the House of Lords (2013 )
• Honorary Doctorate from Leeds Metropolitan University ( 2003)
• Honorary Doctor of the University of Bolton (2003)
• Honorary Doctorate Doctor of Science from the University of Bradford (1999)
• CBE for their work in the NHS and the Race Relations (1998)