You are here:
Home
>
News and Events
>
Industry News
>
GOC Chairman receives OBE
GOC Chairman receives OBE
02 January 2007
General Optical Council chairman Rosie Varley has been awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Years Honours List. The honour is in recognition of her services to the NHS and to healthcare.
The New Year Honours List reflects and pays tribute to outstanding achievement and service across the community.
Commenting on the award, Mrs Varley said: “I was overwhelmed when I heard I was to receive this award, which was entirely unexpected. During the thirty years that I have been involved with health care I have had the privilege to work with an enormous number of talented and dedicated people. My various roles have all, in different ways, focussed on providing a framework within which front line clinicians can deliver excellent patient care, and this honour is an acknowledgement of the achievements of all those people.
“My involvement with the world of optics over the last eight years has been enormously rewarding, and I will continue to do all I can to gain greater government recognition of the critical role of the optical professions in improving peoples health and quality of life.”
In addition to her present role as chairman of the GOC, Rosie Varley was a regional commissioner of the NHS Appointments Commission until December 2006.