Health matters

Ex-BBC COO and thwarted DG candidate Caroline Thomson has joined the NHS Trust Development Authority as a non-executive director. This may give her a chance to spar once again, at least indirectly, with Lord Patten, who, as well as being Chairman of BBC Trust, sits on the European Advisory Board of Bridgepoint, an investment group with major holdings in NHS out-sourcer Care UK and Tunstall, a tele-health-care operator. Or perhaps Russell Reynolds Associates, the headhunters that Lord Patten works for, found Caroline the job...