A SOLICITOR and company director have been appointed to the board of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Erfana Mahmood, who has experience in the public sector and high-value commercial lending sector, has been appointed as a non-executive director, whose role is to hold the executive to account, and use their skills and experience to help the board as it develops health strategies. Her post will run until May 2016.

Mary Wareing has been appointed as non-executive drector (designate), who will then fill a full non-executive director position later this year when another director retires.

She is currently a director of a consultancy firm specialising in operational transformation and change management.

Previous roles have included senior positions at Arla Foods UK and Sheffield City Council and as a consultant at McKinsey & Co, with experience in driving change in the public and private sectors.