# National Health Service Act 2006, Paragraph 16


(1) The board consists of—
(a) executive directors, one of whom is the chief executive (and accounting officer) and another the finance director,
(b) non-executive directors, one of whom is the chairman.
(2) One of the executive directors must be a registered medical practitioner or a registered dentist (within the meaning of the Dentists Act 1984 (c 24)); and another must be a registered nurse or a registered midwife.
(3) A person may not be appointed as an executive director if he is within paragraph 8(1).
(4) A person may be appointed as a non-executive director only if—
(a) he is a member of a public constituency or the patients' constituency, or
(b) where any of the corporation's hospitals includes a medical or dental school provided by a university, he exercises functions for the purposes of that university,
and he is not within paragraph 8(1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/41/schedule/7/paragraph/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-act-2006/schedule-7/paragraph-16
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