:Deirdre Hine
{{short description|Welsh public health physician and administrator}}
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| office = Chief Medical Officer for Wales
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| birth_name = Deirdre Joan Curran
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| birth_place = Cardiff, Wales
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Dame Deirdre Joan Hine (née Curran; born 16 September 1937[http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/search/results/18711/Deirdre%20Joan+HINE.aspx Profile at Debrett's]) is a Welsh medical doctor. In 1984 she began her career as a public health physician in Wales. She was chair of the Commission for Health Improvement from 1999 to 2004.
Biography
Hine was born to David Alban Curran and his wife, Noreen Mary (née Cliffe), and raised in Cardiff. She attended Heathfield House (Cardiff) and Charlton Park (Cheltenham) schools before earning her MBBCh degree at the Welsh National School of Medicine (now Cardiff University School of Medicine) in 1961. In 1963 she married Raymond Hine and the couple had two sons. She was a medical practitioner at Cardiff's Royal Infirmary. She trained in public health medicine, becoming a specialist in community medicine in 1974. {{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}
Her career included, Principal Medical Officer, Welsh Office (1984); Deputy Chief Medical Officer (1985); Director, Breast Cancer Screening Service, Wales (1988); and Chief Medical Officer, Wales (1990). Hine was affiliated with several organisations including Non-executive director of Dwr Cymru Welsh Water; Vice-President, Marie Curie Cancer Care; and Member, Science Committee for Cancer Research UK.
She retired in 1997 and was appointed to the Audit Commission the following year. Hine was named as chair of the Commission for Health Improvement in August 1999, a position which she held until that body was abolished in 2004.
She was elected President of the Royal Society of Medicine (2000–02).{{Cite book|title=The History of The Royal Society of Medicine|last=Hunting|first=Penelope|publisher=Royal Society of Medicine Press|year=2002|isbn=1-85315-497-0|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hFNrAAAAMAAJ|pages=481–482|chapter=Appendix: Presidents of the Society 1805-2000}}
She later served terms as chair of the BUPA Foundation (2004–11), President of the British Medical Association (2005–06) and President of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (2008–13).
In 2001 Hine was appointed as an independent member to the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
She chaired the UK's official review into the 2009 swine flu pandemic.{{cite news|title =Lack of coronavirus testing 'difficult to understand', says Dame Deirdre Hine|date =5 April 2020|first =Dominic|last =Kennedy|newspaper =The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/lack-of-coronavirus-testing-difficult-to-understand-says-dame-deirdre-hine-7c50t0jc8}}
Awards and honours
Hine was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire "for services to medicine in Wales" in 1997.
She received honorary fellowships in:
References
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External links
- [http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.17851 Breast Cancer Screening Service]
- [http://www.shawprize.org/en/shawprize/2005/committees/hine.html Shaw Prize.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120033444/http://www.shawprize.org/en/shawprize/2005/committees/hine.html |date=20 November 2008 }}
- [http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/3/3/272.pdf Writings]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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Category:Chief Medical Officers for Wales
Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Medical doctors from Cardiff
Category:20th-century Welsh medical doctors
Category:20th-century Welsh women medical doctors
Category:Welsh people of Irish descent
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
Category:Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine
Category:21st-century Welsh medical doctors
Category:21st-century Welsh women medical doctors