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Grenfell Tower Inquiry chief appointed as boss to run NHS in Greater Manchester as the way we get our health care undergoes major changes

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A Grenfell Tower Inquiry chief has been appointed as the new boss of the NHS in Greater Manchester - as the health service undergoes sweeping changes.

Mark Fisher, the director general and secretary to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, will become the chief executive of NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care - a new NHS body that will formally come into being on July 1, if the Health and Care Bill passes in the House of Lords.

The board is one of many being set up across the country, changing how the NHS is run dramatically by operating it on a day-to-day basis, as well as all of the planning, buying of health and care services, and the development of long-term plans for the region. READ MORE Outgoing Manchester council leader Sir Richard Leese to run NHS in Greater Manchester as chair of major new health board Mark Fisher joins former Manchester City Council leader, Sir Richard Leese, on the Integrated Care Board.

Sir Richard will become the chair of the new organisation upon the bill's passing in the legislature. The Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board's priorities include making Greater Manchester's approach to health care more preventative, catching problems before they appear, along with the use of more technology to make health care run smoothly and efficiently, according to its incoming bosses.

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