Broadcaster and author Dame Jenni Murray joined BBC Radio Bristol in 1973 and went on to report and present for BBC TV’s South Today. She joined Newsnight in 1983 and later the Today programme as a presenter. She is a regular presenter of Woman’s Hour.

Dame Jenni regularly writes for a range of newspapers and magazines and has written several books. She is a non-executive director of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester and, after her own well-documented battle with breast cancer, is now the patron of Breast Cancer Campaign. She is also patron of the Family Planning Association and vice president of the Parkinson Disease Society.

She was awarded an OBE for radio broadcasting in the 1999 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and created a dame in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours.

We look forward to her joining us as chair of this year’s NHS Employers annual conference and exhibition.