NORTH Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust chairman Mary St Aubyn has been re-appointed for a four-year term.

A magistrate in mid-north Essex for over a decade, she has also been involved with NHS organisations starting with the North Essex Health Authority as a non-executive and vice-chairman and then Mid-Essex Hospitals as a vice-chairman in 1999.

In 2001 she was appointed chairman of the North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.