THE POSTS of chairman and executive director for the Morecambe Bay Hospitals NHS Trust, have both been filled.

Professor Idris Williams and Ms Cathie Lubelska were appointed for the posts respectively by the Secretary of State for Health.

Both these people previously held the same posts, since the Trust's inception on April, 1998.

Professor Williams was a GP in Lancashire, then a Professor of General Practice at Nottingham University.

Ms Lubelska is a former principal university lecturer, with particular interest in equality, social exclusion and organisational development.