BETSI Cadwaladr University health board (BCUHB) has appointed a new director of mental health.

Andy Roach is the latest addition to the struggling health board’s managerial staff as BCUHB strives to get itself out of special measures.

Andy, a fully trained mental health nurse with more than 12 years’ experience at board level in health organisations, is scheduled to take up his new role in early June.

He was most recently at NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group as director of integration and transformation.

Within the role, he was responsible for an ambitious plan to reform how the CCG commissions services.

Andy was also the lead director on behalf of partner organisations across the Lancaster coast, providing system leadership and strategic management for the Fylde Coast Vanguard New Care Models programme.

See the full story in this week’s Meirionnydd and Arfon/Dwyfor edition of the Cambrian News