Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone

Barbara Scott Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone ( born April 8, 1948 in Perth ) is a British politician, formerly the Labour Party and Life Peeress, who worked in healthcare before.

Life and career

Young was born in April 1948 in Perth. She spent her childhood in Scotland and attended Perth Academy. Later she studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Strathclyde Classical Studies and Commerce.

From 1973 to 1978 she was a senior administrator of the Greater Glasgow Health Board and from 1978 to 1979 Director of Planning and Development of the St Thomas ' Health District. Young was 1979-1982 District Administrator-General of the NW District Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster AHA. From 1982 to 1985, she was District Administrator of Haringey HA and 1985-1988 District General Manager of Paddington and North Kensington HA. After she was active in the management of health of the Glasgow Health Board, she moved to London.

Young acted as District General Manager of Parkside HA 1988-1991. From 1991 to 1998 she was Chief Executive of the RSPB and its Vice -President ( Vice - President) since 2000. From 1998 to 2000 she was chairman ( Chairman ) by English Nature. In the Environment Agency from 2000 to 2008 she was Chief Executive. From 2008 to 2009 she was Chair ( Chair ) of the Care Quality Commission. Since 2009, Young has been a member of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee.

At the BBC she was 1998-2000 Vice-Chair ( Vice - Chair ) of the Board of Governors.

Currently ( December 2010), she is the Chair ( Chairman ) of the Care Quality Commission (CQC ). On 26 November 2009 she announced her decision to resign from the post on February 1, 2010. She said: " After we reached hben to create the main task of the creation of a single regulator for health and social care and to lead it in the right direction, I have decided that others will continue. I wish all success for the Commission and its staff and for Dame Jo Williams, who has agreed, is to preside until a successor appointed. Jo will take the reins in January in the hand. "

Health Secretary Alan Johnson announced on 15 April 2008 on the appointment of Young as Chairman ( Chair ) of the CQC. The announcement followed an independent recruitment by the Appointments Commission and a pre-selection by the Health Select Committee, which approved Young's appointment.

Before she assumed the position of chairman of the CQC, Young Chief Executive of the Environment Agency an appointment from 2000 to May 2008, to be brought to the Cross Bencher, having previously represented the Labour Party.

Other offices that she held, include the chair of English Nature, she was Deputy Chairman ( Vice Chairman ) of the BBC, a member of the Supervisory Board of AWG plc, a major UK water company, Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and a number of local health authorities, including the Parkside Health Authority. In 2010 Young was appointed Chancellor of Cranfield University.

Alan Johnson announced the appointment of Baroness Young as chairman of the shadows Care Quality Commission (CQC ) on April 15, 2008.

She is also a member of the Trusteeship Council ( trustee ) of the charity organization Imperial Healthcare. From 1985 to 1988 Young was a member of the BBC General Advisory Council. That was 1987-1988 President of the Institute of Health Services Management. Since 1993, she is the patron of the Institute of Ecological and Environment Management. From 1994 to 1996 she served on the Committee of the Secretary of State for the Environment 's Going for Green initiative and from 1995 to 2000 the UK Round Table on Sustainability. From 1995 to 1997 she was a member of the Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector and from 1996 to 1997 at Committee on the Public Understanding of Science.

In November 2010 she became operational at Diabetes UK.

Membership in the House of Lords

Young was charged on 4 November 1997 for Life peer as Baroness Young of Old Scone, of Old Scone in Perth and Kinross. In the upper house, she sat initially for the Labour Party, which she left in 2000. Since then, she sits as Independent (Non- Affialated ). Your inauguration, she held on 4 December 1997.

As subjects of political interest are called environmental, health and social care, broadcasting, equality and rights.

  • Session 1997/1998: 108 * 16 * = 116
  • Session 1 April 2001 to March 31, 2002: 3 days
  • Session 1 April 2002 to March 31, 2003: 9 days
  • Session 1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004: 16 days
  • Session 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005: 16 days
  • Session of April 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006: 18 days
  • Session 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007: 13 days
  • Session 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008: 25 days
  • Session 1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009: 41 days
  • Session 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010: 34 days
  • Session of April 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010: 8 days
  • Session 1 July 2010 to 30 September 2010: 9 days
  • Session 1 October 2010 to 31 December 2010: 6 days
  • Session 1 January 2011 to 31 March 2011: 7 days
  • April 2011: 0 days ( 7 )
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  • June 2011: 4 days ( 17 )
  • July 2011: 1 days ( out of 13)
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  • October 2011: 2 days ( 18 )
  • November 2011: 4 days ( 18 )
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  • January 2012: 0 days ( 14 )
  • February 2012: 5 days ( 14 )
  • March 2012: 5 days ( 17 )
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  • July 2012: 1 day ( 16 )
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Honors

Young in 2002 Honorary Member of the Linnean Society of London. She is also a winner of several honorary doctorates. In 1995 she became Doctor of the University ( Hon DUniv ) of the University of Stirling. With the same title two years later she was honored by the University of Hertfordshire. The Cranfield University honored Young with a Doctor of Science ( Hon DSc ).

It contributes further honor financial statements of the University of St Andrews, University of Aberdeen and the University of York (all three 2000), as well as from the Open University ( 2001) and the Anglia Ruskin University (2008). In 1971 she became an associate of the Institute of Health Service Management.

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