Lord Hunt of Kings Heath OBE
Parliamentary Under Secretary (Lords)
Lord Philip Hunt was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health (Lords) from July 1999 until 2003. He was Chair of the National Patient Safety Agency from January 2004 to May 2005. He also Chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on Merits of Statutory Instruments from December 2003 to May 2005.
He was appointed a life peer in July 1997 and in 1998 became a Government Whip and spokesperson in the House of Lords on Education, Employment and Health. He was joint chair of the All Party Primary Care and Public Health Group from 1997 to 1998 and Vice-Chair of the All Party Group on AIDS from 1997 to 1998.
He was the first Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, and previously Director of the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts (NAHAT) from its formation in 1990. Before that he was Director of its predecessor organisation, the National Association of Health Authorities (NAHA) from 1984 to 1990.
Lord Hunt's NHS career began in 1972 when he joined Oxford Regional Hospital Board as a works study officer, moving to Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre as hospital administrator in 1974.
He was President of the Family Planning Association from 1997 to 1998 and Co-Chair of the Association for Public Health from 1994 - 1998. He was awarded the OBE in June 1993.
Born in 1949 Lord Hunt is married with five children and lives in Birmingham.