Supported Discharge Team 

New Chair of Aberdeen City CHP Committee

NHS Grampian have appointed Councillor Bill Howatson as Chair of Aberdeen City CHP Committee.Councillor Howatson is a Non-Executive Member of NHS Grampian Board representing Aberdeenshire Council and brings a wealth of experience to the CHP.

Councillor Bill Howatson Non Executive Member Councillor Bill Howatson is Provost of Aberdeenshire and has served as an elected member since 1999 when he was elected for the Mearns South ward. He is now one of the four members of the Mearns ward. Bill chairs the North East Agricultural Advisory Group and the North East Fisheries Development Partnership, and is a member of the Nestours board.

As a trained journalist he has worked on daily and weekly newspapers and currently writes for The Press and Journal in Aberdeen and the Dundee Courier. He was agricultural editor of The Press and Journal from 1994 to 1996.

He has served as a main board member of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and as its east regional chairman, and for nine years on the board of Health Scotland (formerly the Health Education Board for Scotland), where he was vice chair from 2002 to 2005.

Bill has also served on the Rail Passenger Committee for Scotland, the east region board of Scottish Natural Heritage, and is currently vice chair of Angus College in Arbroath.

He is particularly interested in the role of the board in health improvement.

His hobbies include Scottish history, hill walking and gardening. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies in 2005 in recognition of his contribution to agricultural writing, and is a former Scottish columnist of the year. Married with two daughters he lives near St Cyrus.

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