A new chairman has been appointed to run Leicester's hospitals.
Karamjit Singh takes up the job at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust on October 1.
His experience of health leadership includes being the first chairman of the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, from 2006 to 2009.
Mr Singh has also been a board member of the Coventry Family Services Health Authority and the Coventry Health Authority.
He has been a voluntary trustee of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, its sister trust, the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, and the Commonwealth Studies Centre, at Cambridge University.
Mr Singh said: "I look forward to working with the board and trust staff, our partners in the health community and patient and community groups to deliver safe and high-quality health services to local patients.
"I want to focus on the continued delivery of improvements and innovation to patient care while ensuring efficient use of all resources available.
"I am also familiar with the different communities in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and the need to respond to their diverse health needs through improving patient experiences."
Mr Singh lives in Coventry and has considerable knowledge of the area served by the University Hospitals of Leicester and local issues.
Mr Singh holds two part-time roles in Northern Ireland as the Judicial Appointments Ombudsman and the Social Fund Commissioner, which both end in 2015.
His previous national appointments have included leading the appeals process for Social Fund welfare benefits in Great Britain, appointing Queen's Counsel and senior civil servants, investigating police complaints and suspected miscarriages of justice, developing judicial training, regulating financial services and regulating the funding of political parties and electoral issues.
He was awarded the CBE in 1999 for services to the administration of justice.
John Adler, chief executive of Leicester's hospitals, said: "We are pleased Karamjit is joining our team. He brings a wealth and variety of experience from inside and outside the NHS to complement our trust team.
He added: "I would like to thank Richard Kilner who has been an admirable acting chairman over the past 10 months."
Eric Charlesworth, chairman of the Leicester Mercury Patients' Panel, who was invited to be part of an informal panel as part of the selection process, said: "I look forward to working with the new chairman. I hope he builds on the important relationship of having patients at the centre of all decision making."
