Tom Bower Tom Bower Thomas Michael Bower (born 28 September 1946) is a British writer known for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorized biographies, often of business tycoons and newspaper proprietors. His books include unauthorised biographies of Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Conrad Black, and Richard Branson. A book about Richard Desmond remains unpublished. His book, "", won the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Bower's parents were Jewish refugees who fled Prague after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and arrived in London later that same year. After attending the William Ellis School in Hampstead, Bower studied
Cynthia Bower the two merged. In July 2006, Bower became Chief Executive of the NHS West Midlands, a major regional Strategic Health Authority which included responsibility for Stafford Hospital. NHSWM rejected the noted high death rates as a statistical blip. Bower later admitted that the situation at Stafford "wasn’t on my radar." In July 2009, the then Labour Government set up the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to replace three other quangos. Bower was appointed Chief Executive, on a salary of £195,000, The CQC oversees the NHS, social care and mental health, mandated to register and oversee 20,000 hospitals, care homes and clinics.