As national director for children at the Department of Health, Shribmanwill lead the reform of children's health services and implementation ofthe year-old children's national service framework.
Shribman, who is also medical director at Northampton General NHS Trust,takes up the three-year position on 1 December this year and replacesProfessor Al Aynsley-Green, who left the post to become the children'scommissioner for England.
A consultant paediatrician with 20 years' experience in acute andcommunity work, Shribman described the post as "hugely challenging butvery exciting".
"There's an awful lot to do to make the framework a reality - it's ahuge agenda so that in itself is a challenge," she told ChildrenNow.
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