Fitness to practise panellists

Mr Mohammad Almas Abbasi BA LLB (Punjab University, Pakistan) MA Sociology (Sheffield Hallam University), Lay

Part-time C.E.O. Rotherham Diversity Forum.
Management Committee Member, Rotherham Community Safety and Advice Centre.
Member Labour Party.
Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee of British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Member, GMC Investigation Committee.

Dr Dianne Aitken MB BS MRCGP DRCOG, Dip Ther, Medical

General Practitioner. Professional Director for GPs, Lambeth Primary Care Trust (PCT)

Mr Brian Alderman MBChB FRCOG MAE, Medical

MB., ChB. University of Liverpool.
Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists.
Emeritus Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Wirral Teaching Hospital NHS Trust.
Emeritus Clinical Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Liverpool.
Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board Partner.
Former Regional Advisor to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Member of the Academy of Experts.
Member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society.
Trustee of Wirral Postgraduate Education Centre.
MDDUS.

Mr Munther Ibrahim Al-doori MB ChB PhD FRCS FRCS(Ed) FRCS(Glasg) FACS, Medical

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Fellow of the Royal College of Physcians & Surgeons of Glasgow. Ex-Member of the Standards Committee of the Vascular Society UK. Ex-Vascular Regional Adviser for Yorkshire Deneary. Ex-member of the Council of the Vascular Society - UK. Member of the Vascular Society - UK. Member of the Association of Surgeons of GB & I. Member of the Association of Endocrine Surgeons. Chairman of BMA - Huddersfield Division. Chairman of BIDA - Huddersfield Division (previously ODA). Member of the Iraqi Medical Association - UK. Member of the Arab Medical Association - UK. Visiting Professor University of Baghdad. Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Member of the European Vascular Society. Ex-Member of Quality Assurance - Royal College of Surgeons of England. Member of Intercollegiate Board in General Surgery. Member of Huddersfield Medical Society. General Surgery: Vascular/Endocrine. Consultant General & Vascular Surgeon at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Leeds. Teaching under/postgraduate students.

Dr Sebastian Alexander MBChB MRCGP AFOM DRCOG Dip.Med Ac, Medical

General Practitioner in Cambridge. MRCGP,AFOM. Occupational Health Physician to: Marshall Aerospace Ltd. Medical Director; CAMDOC (Cambridge Doctors on Call). Clinical lead (Clinical Safety Officer),NHS Connecting for Health. Medical Assessor for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Previously: Professional Executive Committee, Cambridge City and South Cambridge Primary Care Trust; NCAS Assessor.

Ms Gill Anderson JP, Lay

Royal Courts of Justice – Race Relations Assessor. Justice of the Peace, past Court Chairman, past Probation Board Chairman, past Central Probation Council Member and past County Magistrates’ Association Chairman. OFSTED school inspector (retired). Past non-executive member of area Health Authority. Member of Royal Society of Medicine, Member of Magistrates' Association. Past school governor. Member of English Speaking Union.

Dr James David Anderson MB BS (1963, Lond) SR FRCA (1969), Medical

Anaesthetics. Associate Specialist, Burton Hospitals NHS Trust. Recent Chief Exec, Consultant Anaesthetist. Member: BMA, MDU, Association of Anaesthetists. Fellow of Royal College of Anaesthetists. President, Friends of Burton Graduate Medical Centre.

Mr Peter John Andrews LLB D.CRIM Barrister Queen's Counsel, Lay

Barrister (Queen's Counsel) in private practice (catastrophic personal injury & clinical negligence litigation). Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. Deputy High Court Judge (Queen's Bench Division). Recorder of the Crown Court. Contributing Editor to Kemp & Kemp: The Quantum of Damages, published by Sweet & Maxwell. Member: Professional Negligence Bar Association. Member: Personal Injury Bar Association.

Mr Ijaz Ashraf MBE JP FRSA, Lay

Human rights and equalities campaigner, former Chair of Central Scotland Asian Cultural and Educational Project, Race Equality Officer with West Edinburgh Multicultural Organisation (Edinburgh), former Chair, Director Central Scotland Racial Equality Council (Falkirk), Member of the Chief Constable Racial Lay Advisory Forum (Stirling), Lay Member of the Employment Tribunals (Edinburgh), Independent Assessor for the Public Appointments, Presiding Justice of the Peace (Falkirk Commission area), Member of the Justice Advisory Committee. From 1st September 2007 Member of the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care, Lay Professionals on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, former Member of the General Medical Council, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Ms Valerie Atkinson MA Hons (First-Class) Politics - Modern History Glasgow University, Lay

Member of Advisory Board "Generation Scotland" [Genetics]. Member of Board NHS Quality Improvement, Scotland. Lay Member of the Office For Judicial Complaints Review Body. Chair Glasgow Revertory Company (Charity).

Mrs Ann Auchterlonie LLB Cert Ed TELFE

Director for Scotland AFASIC (UK Charity supporting children and young people with speech and language difficulties); Scottish Qualifications Authority: Member of the advisory council; Member of Patient Participation Panel for the local Health Authority; Member of Association of Directors of Education in Scotland

Dr Stephen Austin MB BCh FCARCSI FRCA DICM BSc MPhil, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist. Intensive care medicine. Member: Intensive Care Society, Northern Ireland Intensive Care Society - Council member. European Society of Critical Care Medicine, British Medical Association. Medical Protection Society. Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Dr Syed Babar MB, D Av Med, FRCS, LLM (Med Law), MRCGP, MFTM, RCPSG, Medical

Vascular Surgeon; Senior Medical Member, Tribunals Judiciary, Clinical Adviser to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman.

Mrs Jane Patricia Bacon LLB (Hons) RM ADM RGN Barrister-at-Law, Lay

Practicing Barrister-at-Law. Membership of Middle Temple, Family Law Bar Association and Midland circuit. Formerly practised as a Midwifery sister and Registered Nurse with experience both in the hospital and community settings.

Dr Franklyn Baker JP MBChB MRCGP Medical

Justice of the Peace sitting for the Greater Manchester Commission Area. Bench Appraiser for Bury Magistrates' Court Training and Development Committee. Panel Member sitting on the Fitness to Practise Committee Panels of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Panel Member sitting on the Fitness to Practise Committee Panels of the Health Professions Council. Panel Member sitting on the Fitness to Practise Committee Panels of the General Chiropractic Council. Panel Member sitting on the Fitness to Practise Committee Panels of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Independent Member sitting on Police Misconduct Panels of the Metropolitan Police Authority. Medical Assessor to Fitness to Practise Panels of British Psychological Society. Medical Panel Member sitting for The Tribunals Service. Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Member of Magistrates Association. Member of the Bolton Medical Society. Member of the Medical Defence Union.

Mrs Margaret M Bamford OBE, MA (Hon), BA Lay

Formerly, Head of Adult Services West Sussex County Council and Assistant Director Eastern Health and Social Service Board, Northern Ireland. Currently: Non-Executive Director West Sussex Primary Care Trust. Chair, Worthing Citizens Advice Bureau. Chair, 'Leaves of Hope for Belarusian Children'. Previously has held management committee positions in Charitable organisations in Britain and Northern Ireland.

Dr Ann Barker BA MA PhD, Lay

Complaints Commissioner of the Bar Standards Board of the Bar Council; Chairman, Ashley Gardens Management Company Ltd.; JP, City of Westminster Magistrates Court.

Mrs Fiona Barnett LL.B (Hons); Solicitor of the Supreme Court; Higher Courts Advocate (criminal proceedings); Accredited Mediator, Lay

Senior Associate Solicitor, Walker Morris Solicitors, Leeds
Formerly Crown Prosecution Service West Yorkshire - Divisional Crown Prosecutor

Mr Ralph R Bergmann JP LLB, Lay

Magistrate: Haringey Magistrates' Court. Presiding Chairman: Haringey Youth Panel. Committee Chairman: Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. Chairman: Board of Governors, TTCM School. Vice-Chairman: Communal Liaison Committee. Member: Hackney Children and Young People's Scrutiny Commission. Member: Hackney Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education.

Dr Ian Berry BSc MB ChB MRCPsych, Medical

Retired Consultant in Psychiatry of Old Age. Designated Medical Practitioner (Second Opinion Doctor) - Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. Medical Member - Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland. Member - Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Medical Association, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.

Dr Kumbakonam Srinivasachar Bhanumathi MB BS DA Primary FFARCS, Medical

Retired General Practitioner. Chairperson of Women Doctor's forum of BIDA. President of Kannada Balaga UK and Vice Chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Manchester (both regd charitable organisations). Former Chairman of Tameside BMA and Glossopdale PCG. Member BMA, BIDA and Medical Women's Federation.

Mr Sanjoy Bhattacharyya MBBS, FRCS (Eng), FCEM, Medical

GMC - PLAB Osce Examiner. PMETB - Medical Member of Appeals Panel. College of Emergency Medicine - MCEM Examiner. RCS England - MRCS Pt III Examiner. East Lancashire Trust - Clinical Operations Director (Ed & VCC). RCS England - Fellow. CEM - Fellow. MPS - Member. BMA - Member. Associate tutor for International Medical Graduates.

Dr Graham Bickler BA MB BS DCH DRCOG MRCGP FFPHM MSc, Medical

Member: Medical Defence Union. Fellow: Faculty of Public Health of The Royal College of Physicians (and Member of Audit & Risk Management Committee). Member: Labour Party. Regional Director SE Health Protection Agency.
Interests: Public Health Policy, Governance, port health, public health law.

Mr James Black Dip. Soc. Wrk, Lay

Lay Member : Mental Health Review Tribunal. Lay Member : Care Standards Tribunal. Chairman - DISC (Voluntary Organisation). Chairman - NEPACS (North East Prisoners' After Care Society - Vol. Org).

Ms Liz Boait BSc MSc PGCE, Lay

Chair West Gloucestershire PCT 2002-2006; Non executive Director Gloucestershire Health Authority 1998-2002; Associate Post Graduate and MBA Tutor, Business Schools, Oxford Brookes and Birmingham Universtities; Former member and Deputy Leader Gloucestershire County Council 1989-2005; Director, Word on the Street Ltd; Liberal Democrat

Mr Kwasi Amponsah Boateng BA (Hons) Dip Arch MSc RIBA NOMA, Lay

Kwasi is a chartered architect and development planner. He is a design champion for the governments Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. Board member of Croydon Peoples Housing Association. Past Chair of the Society of Black Architects. Kwasi is active in architectural education through serving on the Royal Institute of British Architects' Schools Visiting Panel and taught in universities in the United Kingdom, Ghana, South Africa and United States. Visiting Fellow in Development Planning at South Bank University. Kwasi is a Parent Governor at Parish Church, Croydon and Trustee of One World Week. He plays cricket, basketball, table tennis and lives in Thornton Heath with his wife Naa Adei and their three children.

Mr Paul Bompas QPM, BA (Hons), Cert Ed, Lay

Non-Executive Director Poole Primary Care Trust until 30.09.06. Member Asylum & Immigration Tribunal. Lay Member Employment Tribunal. Dorset Board Member National Probation Service. Lay Panellist for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (Investigating and Interim Order Panels). School Governor.

Lady Margaret Booth MA (Oxon) Certificate in Statistics, Lay

Supervisor (voluntary) Oxford Citizens Advice Bureau. Formerly Non-executive Director Oxfordshire Community Health NHS Trust. Statistician Department of Health. Member Oxford City Patient and Public Involvement Forum, Oxfordshire Community Health Council.

Mrs Catherine Boyd BA (Hons) Modern History, PG Diploma Management, CMgr, Lay

Director of Axient Consulting Ltd, Fellow: Chartered Management Institute, Lay Member Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council.

Professor Sir Robert David Hugh Boyd FRCP  FMedSci  FRCPCH  FFPH

Paediatrics, retired. Council Member, Manchester University (to Sept '09). Trustee Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust; Sir Joseph Hotung Charitable Trust. Chair Council for Assisting Refugee Academics. Fellow: Academy Medical Sciences; Royal College of Physicians of London; Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health; Faculty of Public Health

Mr Colin Breed MP ACIB, Lay

Member of Parliament, South East Cornwall (Liberal Democrat). Interests: Medical Ethics.

Mrs V Brickley LLB, Lay

Qualified Nurse 1981-1998
Magistrate 1998-2004
CAB Adviser
Independent Member of Eastleigh Borough Council Standards Committee

Mr J Brown CBE, Lay

Non-Executive Member of Board of Health Protection Agency. Member, Scottish Health Protection Advisory Group. Chairman, British Heart Foundation Scotland Advisory Group.

Mr M Brown B.A.(Dunelm), JP, Lay

Member of the Law Society. Deputy Chairman of the Appeal Committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Member of the Administrative Appeals Panel of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Chairman of Education Appeal Panels for Oxfordshire. Mental Health Act Manager for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Vaughan Bruce Solicitor, Lay

Solicitor. Caseworker for the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Appointed as a Lay Panel member of the Professional Conduct Panel of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Executive Committee Member - Keighley Liberal Democrats. Executive Committee Member - Liberal Democrats Disability Association.

Dr Linda Alison Buchanan MBChB (1976, Aberdeen), Medical

General Practice. Part-time General Practitioner. Member, MDDUS. Justice of the Peace.

Mr Stuart Burton BSc (Soc), MEd, MBA Cert Ed., Lay

Former Principal of a College of Further Education and Management Lecturer. Assessor for the Association of Colleges' Beacon Awards for Further Education including the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Healthcare Award.

Ms Khairun Butt BA, Lay

Committee Member - Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Magistrates (Birmingham); Fitness to Practise Panel Member - Nursing & Midwifery Council; Peer Inspector - Health Inspectorate Wales; Independent Investigations Officer - Telford and Wrekin Borough Council; Director - CTI Associates; Formerly: Committee Member - General Social Care Council.

Mr John P Campbell MA (Hons), LL.B; NP, Advocate, Lay

Member of the Faculty of Advocates

Mr Michael Cann BA (Hons) FCIPD, Lay

Member: Family Health Service Appeals Authority Tribunal, Central Arbitration Committee, Fitness to Practice Panels (the General Dental Council) and Registration Appeals Panellist for Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Advisor, Citizens Advice Bureau. Investigator for the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Previously Non-Executive Director, Sussex Downs and Weald Primary Care Trust. National pay negotiator, Local Government Management Board. Previously, Chairman, Independent Review Panels (South East London Strategic Health Authority). Commissioner, Mental Health Act. Associate NHS Complaints Panel Convenor, Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark PCT. Previously Sussex Board Member, National Probation Service. Fitness to Practise Panellist for Health Professions Council.

Ms Patsy Cann MSc Ed Psy BA (Hons) RGN RM RHV, Lay

Professional Background. Nurse, midwife, health visitor. Primary Health Care Facilitator. Lecturer in Health and Social Care & Psychology - Further and Higher Education. Associate Lecturer - Open University.
Current Posts: Educational Psychologist. Member British Psychological Society and Division of Education & Child Psychology,
Lay Member - British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy Fitness to Practise Panel.
Rotating Chair - Youth Justice Board Referral Order Panel for Young Offenders.

Mrs Eileen Carr MSc, Dip HSM, Dip PHC, JP, Lay

Trustee - BASIC (Brain and Spinal Injuries Charity). Justice of the Peace - Chair, Adult Bench, Chair, Youth Bench. Retired NHS Director. Professional Conduct Committee panel chair at the General Chiropractic Council and a Lay Member of the North Western Deanery.

Mr Peter Charles Catchpole BSc (Hons) MBA F Inst Mgmt FHA, Lay

FCIM; FHSM; Board member and trustee, Rett Syndrome Association UK: Business Advisor & Head of Facilities, Sussex Health Care; Lecturer & Fellow, Faculty of Health, University of Brighton.
Lay Member Nursing & Midwives Conduct and Competence Committee; Lay Member of the General Dental Council, and Inspector for performance reviews of UK Dental and Professions Complimentary to Dentistry Schools. Lay Member British Association of Psychotherapy and Counselling Conduct Committee. Non-executive Director of NHS Direct and Chair of the Audit Committee. Member of the Conservative Party. County Councillor, West Sussex County Council.

Mr Steven Kam Fai Chan JP, B.Sc (Hons), PG Dip in Legal Practice, MBCS, CITP, Lay

Information Technology Programme Management Professional. Chartered Professional Member of the British Computer Society. Magistrate (Adult Court Chair). Panel Member of the Family Proceedings Court (Family Court Chair). Member of the Magistrates Association. North and West Yorkshire Courts Board Member for Her Majesty's Courts Service.

Mr Michael John Chapman JP BSc Dip Ed MEd FCollP, Lay

Honorary Fellow of Brunel University. Retired Teacher and Lecturer.

Dr Lin Sun Choong Kam Chong BA MB BCh BAO MRCPsych MBA, Lay

Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Director, Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership Trust. Member medical director executive group, RCPsych. Chair West Midlands Medical Directors in mental health group.

Dr Julianna Y Chow MB BS BSc MRCPCH DFPHM MSc, Public Health, Medical

Public Health. Specialist Registrar in Public Health. Interested in Health Protection & Child Health.

Dr George Ka Keung Chung MRCP (UK) MBChB (Liverpool), Medical

Cardiology/General Medicine. East Somerset NHS Trust, Consultant Cardiologist & Physician. Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist.

Mrs Polly Clarke MBA, Lay

Intermittent work for Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, previously Head of Clinical Governance (interim); Member Gloucestershire GP Support Panel; Assessment, project management, training (NHS and other); Previously Non-Executive Director, Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Group.

Mrs Mary Clark-Glass BA CBE FRSA, Lay

Appointed lecturer in law in Belfast in 1974. Also broadcast on the BBC on legal/rights topics. In 1984 appointed head of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) for Northern Ireland. Served as a Human Rights Commissioner, on the Commission for Racial Equality for Northern Ireland and other public bodies at a local, national and European level.

Retiring from the EOC in 1992, joined the Alliance Party's talks team, taking part in negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement and standing as Party candidate in the 1994 European Elections, but is no longer politically active.

Involved in Victim Support for 20 years, was, until November 2005, a national trustee and chair of Victim Support Ltd. Appointed a CBE in 1990 for services to equality.

Appointed a lay member of the General Medical Council in 1999. Now an associate serving on the GMC's Fitness to Practise Panels, member of GDC'S FTP Committee since 2003. In 2003 was appointed a lay member of the Health Professions Council. Was a non-executive director of the Royal Group of Hospitals Belfast until March 2007. She is a member of the General Dental Council's Fitness to Practise Committee.

Dr Terence Collins MA FRCGP, Medical

General practitioner (retired 2007) previously GP Trainer, Examiner for the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); currently GP Appraiser and Quality and Outcomes Framework Assessor Cumbria Primary Care Trust, KITE Standards Verifier (Palliative Care) Northern Cancer Network.
Subscription membership of the BMA, RCGP, Medical Defence Union. Fellow of the RCGP and Faculty Board member, Cumbria Faculty RCGP.
Chairman of Trustees and Honorary Medical Advisor, Hospice at Home West Cumbria; Director Hospice at Home West Cumbria Trading Company (Charity Shops).

Mr Patrick (Paddy) Conway BA (Hons), Lay

Retired 2005 following 22 years with Community Health Council. Hon Treasurer/non-executive Director, North of Tyne Patients Voice. Director and Company Secretary Local Living (NE) Ltd. Treasurer, Warkworth and Acklington Christian Aid Group Elder and Treasurer, Warkworth United Reformed Church.

Dr William G T Coppola BMBCh MA DRCOG MRCGP, Medical

General Practice. Academic Medicine. Member: Royal College of GPS, BMA, Medical Protection Society, Royal Institution of GB, Labour Party, Socialist Health Assoc. Chairman, Forest School Camps (Childrens' Educational Charity). Lecturer, Primary Care. Assistant, General Practice.

Dr Jonathan Cossar MB ChB MD FFTM RCPS (Glasg) FRCP (Glasg) MRCGP

Medical Examiner with the General Medical Council for Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) tests. Medically Qualified Panellist, Ministry of Justice.
Principal in General Practice (Glasgow: 1972-2002). Primary Care Consultant Advisor (Health Protection Scotland: 1978-2005). Honorary Clinical Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (University of Glasgow: 1993-2004).
Core Tutor and Module author, Travel Medicine Diploma & MSc (Glasgow
University: 1995-2009). Session Clerk, New Kilpatrick Parish Church of Scotland (2002-2007). Founding Fellow, the Faculty of Travel Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow (2006). Vice Dean, Faculty of Travel Medicine (2006-2008).
Honorary Fellow: British Travel Health Association. Fellow: the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow. Ordinary Member: Royal College of General Practitioners; International Society of Travel Medicine; Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland.

Dr Christine Costello DRCOG FRCP FRCPath, Medical

Consultant Haematologist at Cromwell Hospital and Parkside Oncology Clinic, London. PLAB examiner. Justice of the Peace. Non-executive Director, NHL Blood and Transplant Authority.

Dr Ethnea-Anne Coulson MA BM Bch (Oxon) DCH DRCOG, Medical

Member: Medical Defence Union (MDU); British Medical Association (BMA). Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). Salaried GP employed by Eastern & Coastal Kent PCT. GP appraiser and GP ClinicalAdviser to E & CK PCT.

Professor Jack Crane MB BCh 1997 Belf SR FRCPath DMJ FFPath RCPI, Medical

Histopathology. Forensic Medicine/Pathology. State Pathologist for N.Ireland. Professor of Forensic Medicine. Consultant Forensic Pathologist. Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists. President: N.I. Medico-Legal Society. Fellow and Council Member: British Association in Forensic Medicine. Member of Home Office Policy Advisory Board for Forensic Pathology. Member of Council of The Royal College of Pathologists.

Ms J Crawford BA Hons (Oxon), Lay

FTP panellist with the General Chiropractic Council.
Board Member of Independent Midwives UK.
Freelance consultant, Maternity Service Review & Design,
Antenatal Teacher, National Childbirth Trust.

Mr Roger Creedon CBE, Lay

Lay Member, Information Tribunal;Lay member of the General Chiropractic Council; Lay Fitness to Practise panellist for the Nursing and Midwifery Council; Member of the Rules and Ethics Committee of the Solicitors Regulation Authority; Member of the Standards Committee of the Bar Standards Board; Member, Kentish Opera Council (Registered charity no 1035615).

Dr Brian Crompton MB ChB, Medical

General Practice Salaried Doctor. Medical Officer Family Planning. Member Royal College of General Practitioners. Medical Protection Society. Former Director of Clinical Governance and Medical Director, North Lincolnshire PCT. Named Doctor Child Protection. Member of British Medical Association.

Dr Michael H Cross BSc MBChB FRCA, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist (Leeds). Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia. Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Member : Association of Anaesthetists. Member: Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists. Member: Society of Cardiovascular Anaesthesiologists. Chairman: Hospital Transfusion Committee.

Professor Kevin Dalton MB BS DFMS LLM PhD FRCOG FCLM FFFLM, Medical

Fellow of St Catharine’s College Cambridge, and Director of Studies in Clinical Medicine. Emeritus Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Visiting Professor in Medical Law, Northumbria University. Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.
Member: MDU, BMA, Society of Doctors in Law, Medico-Legal Society.
Fellow: RCOG, RSM, American College of Legal Medicine.
Formerly Lay member of Disciplinary Panels at the Inns of Court.

Dr Rosemary Dargie MBChB, Medical

Associate Specialist Bone Mineral Metabolism. Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Medical Advisor: Strathclyde Student Health Service. Member: Scottish Medical & Dental Defence Union (MDDUS), Childrens' Panel (Scotland).

Dr Chinekwu Davies MBBS FFARCSI MBA, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist East Kent Hospital Trust; Fellow: Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland. Member: British Association of Day Surgery; Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britian and Ireland; Association of Obstetric Anaesthesiology; Royal Society of Medicine; British Medical Association. Member, Folkestone Medical Society.

Dr Ian Davies MB BCh FRCA, Medical

United Bristol Healthcare Trust - Employer - Consultant. Royal College of Anaesthetists - Fellow, Specialist Advisor, Journal Reviewer. BMA - Member and Legal Negotiating Committee. Member: Medical Defence Union. Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthetists; Society Cardiovascular Anaesthesia. Intensive Care Society. Royal Society of Medicine. American Board of Anaesthesia - Diplomat.

Mr Richard Davies BA (Hons) MA, Lay

Management Board Director, Welsh Assembly Government. Head of the Department for Public Services and Performance. Non-Executive: Regional Risk and Audit Committee of the HM Courts Service. Member: British Council Advisory Committee for Wales. Visiting Professor University of Glamorgan. FRSA, FCMI.

Mrs Sylvia Dean, Lay

Member, Employment Tribunal. Non-Exec Director, Oxleas NHS Trust. Non-Exec Director, Voice for the Child in Care. Local Government Chief Exec Officer (Retired). Chair: Greenwich Joint Mental Health Panel.

Mr A K Devanii, Lay

Former Executive Director, Racial Equality Council. Member Institute of Advisors. Member Employment Tribunal, University Court, Loughborough University. Race Relations Advisor/Assessor: Home Office. Lay Professional British Association for Counselling.

Mr Jacques Emmanuel Devaux RMN CQSW, Lay

Retired Assistant Director of Social Services and former Non Executive Director (Area Health Authority). Former Justice of the Peace and london Borough Councillor 1994-2002. General Medical Council (Lay) 1996-2002, service on PCC, ARC, REG and IOC. Member of the NHS Security and Confidentiality Advisory Group. Adjudicator Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel. During the past ten years has served as a Trustee of three Charitable Trusts. Member of the Labour Party.

Dr Aileen Doggett M.B. B.Ch; Dip.Pall.Med, Medical

General Practitioner. GP Appraiser in Wales. Member: BMA and MDU.

Dr Nisha Dogra BM DCH MRCPsych MA PhD, Medical

Senior lecturer & consultant, child & adolescent psychiatry/Research & teaching activities, cultural diversity & medical education. Member: Royal College of Psychiatrists Institute of Learning & Teaching, MPS.

Dr Gerard P Dolan MBE FRCGP, Medical

Retired General Practitioner. (Argyll and Clyde Health Board).
Retired General Practitioner Appraiser. (1. Argyll and Clyde Health Board and 2. Highland Health Board). Retired Hospital Practitioner (Urology). (Greater Glasgow Health Board). Past General Practice Trainer.
Past Associate Adviser in General Practice. Immediate past Chairman General Practice Education Committee (West of Scotland). Previously held post 1990-93. Past Examiner RCGP. Past Examiner PLAB. Past Chairman West of Scotland Faculty RCGP. Past Provost West of Scotland Faculty RCGP
Past Vice Chairman RCGP (Scottish Council). Past Chairman General Practice Audit Committee; Argyll and Clyde. Current member of General Practice Education Committee (West of Scotland). Membership : BMA; RCGP; MDDUS; Parish Council, St Charles’ Parish, Paisley.

Mr John Donnelly LLB (Hons 1st Class). Foundation Degree in Theology, Lay

LLB (Hons 1st Class), Sheffield University. Retired Chief Superintendent, South Yorkshire Police. Non-Executive Director - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation (NHS) Trust. Trustee - Sheffield Hospitals Charitable Trust.

Mrs Gill Dorer JP, Lay

Lay Assessor, National Clinical Assessment Service; Lay Member, Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board Appeals Panel; Lay Professional, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Committee Member, General Social Care Council; Chair of Professional Conduct Committee, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Lay Member, Employment Tribunals; Magistrate, Sussex Western Bench. Honorary Research Fellow, University of Leeds School of Healthcare, Faculty of Medicine and Health.

Mr Roland Lee Doven MBE JP BA AKC, Lay

Current appointments/employment/voluntary activity
1999 - Associate/Lay Member, The General Medical Council
NB: Including service as a Council Member between 1999 and 2003.
2000 - Freelance Consultant in Philanthropy
NB: Clients have included and include the private sector (GlaxoSmithKline Beecham) government (The Home Office) and voluntary organisations.
2002 - Surgery Clerk to Keith Hill MP
NB: Membership of the Labour Party
2004 - Board Member, The Big Lottery Fund
1990 - Justice of the Peace, Inner London Petty Sessional Division
NB: Membership of the Magistrates' Association

Previous appointments/employment/voluntary activity
1997-2006 Independent Member, The Parole Board
2003-2005 Trustee, Addaction
2002-2003 Non-Executive Director, Lambeth Primary Care Trust
2000-2003 Member and Chair of Grants Committee, Stonewall Citizenship 21 Project
1998-2002 Councillor, London Borough of Lambeth
1988-2002 Vice-President, National Association of Bereavement Services
1993-2000 Director of Programmes, Association of Charitable Foundations
1990-1993 Assistant Director, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.

Prior to 1993, various administrative positions in the voluntary sector after attending King's College, London.

Dr Heather Dunn MD FRCP FRCPI

Retired consultant cardiologist. Current post: Teaching Consultant Altnagelvin Area Hospital. Examiner MRCPI. Peer Reviewer Regional Quality Improvement Authority. Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians (London & Dublin). Member, MDU. Member British Cardiac Society.

Miss Patricia Durning MD FRCS, Medical

Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons. Member of Association of Surgeons. BASO and Fellow of Endocrine Surgical Society. Examiner for the Intercollegiate Specialty Exam Board. Consultant Surgeon. Lead Clinician for Breast and Endocrine Surgery James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.

Mr Robert Dwyer BSc (Econ) Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, Lay

Retired HR Director and Executive Coach, Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Member of the Council of the University of Reading, Trustee of the Royal Wanstead Children's Foundation and of Parents and Children Together.

Dr Margaret Elliot

Borders Health Board: Ophthalmic Medical Practitioner. War Pensions Appeals Tribunal (Scotland): Medical Member. Retired Consultant Ophthalmologist, special interest in Medical Ophthalmology & Diabetes. Member: BMA, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh), MDDUS.

Dr Alicia Etchegoyen MB ChB FRCPsych, Medical

Consultant Child Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst (retired in 2006).
Current appointments include:
Healthcare Commission: Inspector for Youth Offending Teams and Clinical Associate. Nursing and Midwifery Council: Lay Member, Fitness to Practice Panels.
Caldecott Foundation; Trustee.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. Governor
Recent appointments include:
Healthcare Commission: Inspector for Joint Area Reviews.
Royal College of Psychiatrists:Joint National Director Flexible Training and Working.
Professional Assessor National Clinical Assessment Service.

Ms Jane Everitt BA (Hons) History, Dip. Management Studies. Solicitor, Lay

Solicitor (non-practising) 1989. Non-Executive Director Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (1998-2005). Lay Member of Family Health Services Appeal Authority (2002- ), General Social Care Council (2003- ) and Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-)

Dr Gillian Fairfield MBChB MPH MBA MFPHM DCH, Medical

Chief Executive Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust.

Dr John Fairfield MB ChB FRCA, Medical

Member of: British Medical Association, Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists, Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia, Medical Defence Union. Chair of: Leeds Teaching Hospitals Local Negotiating Committee.

Dr Roger Ferguson MD FRCP, Medical

Emeritus Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist Wirral University Hospital (Teaching) NHS Foundation Trust. Hon. Clinical Lecturer University of Liverpool. Examiner in Medicine University of Liverpool. Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist Murrayfield Hospital Wirral. Medical Advisor Coimbatore Christian Hospital,Tamil Nadu, India. Fellow Royal College of Physicians (London). Fellow Royal Society of Medicine. Member British Medical Association. Member British Society of Gastroenterology. Trustee City Ministries (Registered Charity no 1079940). Chairman Fitness to Practice Panels General Medical Council.

Dr Timothy Fetherston MBChB (Liverpool 1975) FRCS (England 1980) FRCOphth (1989), Medical

School Foundation Governor - St Anthony's Girls' School Sunderland. Consultant Ophthalmologist & Clinical Governance Lead, Sunderland Eye Infirmary. Special Interest & Accident & Emergency/Primary Care Ophthalmology. Vitreo-Retinal Surgery.

Mr Stuart Fletcher OBE, Lay

Chair Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust. Member, Haverford West Rotary Club, President. Governor Pembrokeshire College. President, Pembrokeshire Mind. Member, Institute Healthcare Management. Liveryman, Welsh Livery Guild.

Mr David Flinter MBA, JP, Lay

Director, David Flinter Consulting Ltd. Non-Executive Director, Barnet & Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust. Formerly Non-Executive Director, Public Guardianship Office. Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council. Magistrate, Enfield Magistrates’ Court.

Dr Howard M Freeman JP MB BS FRCGP, Medical

General Practitioner (Urban). Medical Director - PCT. Senior Partner large London Group practice. Medical Director of a London PCT. JP Medical Member Family Health Services Appeals Authority.

Mr Neil C M Fyfe MBBChir MChir FRCS FRCP, Medical

Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow: Royal College of Physicians of London; Fellow: Royal College of Surgeons of England; Member: Appeals Panel of the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board; Panel Member: Social Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal; Trustee and Treasurer: British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine; Member: Medical Defence Union; Member: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

Mr Keith Galbraith MA FRCS, Medical

Consultant Surgeon, Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust. Consultant Surgeon, British Regular Army. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Member of Association of Surgeons & Association of Coloprodotogy of GB & Ireland. Member of BMA, Medical Defence Union

Mr Sam Galbraith MD FRCS DU, Medical

Chairman - Scottish Maritime Museum. Hon Senior Research Fellow - Public Health - University of Glasgow. Fellow - Royal College Physicians & Surgeons (Glasgow). Fellow (Hon) - Royal College Surgeons (Edinburgh). Fellow (Hon) - Royal College Physicians (Edinburgh). The Labour Party. Trustee - Dewar Awards.

Dr Sarah N Galbraith MA (Cantab) LLM MB BChir MRCGP MFFLM, Medical

General Practitioner (non-Principal). Head Army Medical Directorate (Medico-Legal). Member: BMA, MRCGP, MPS.

Dr Mark Garfield MB ChB FRCA, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust & Nuffield Hospital Ipswich. Fellow & Past Council Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists. Member: Association of Anaesthetists, UK Intensive Care Society, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, (USA), BMA, MPS, Eastern Area Intensive Care Group. A Freemason. Member of Doctors for Reform.

Mr Douglas de Regneville Gentleman MB ChB FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Glas), Medical

Hospital/Rehabilitation Medicine. Consultant in brain injury rehabilitation. Member: Journal Editorial Boards (Injury & Trauma), BMA, NHS Consultants Association, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland. Also a member of various scientific societies in neurosurgery, brain injury & rehabilitation medicine. Fellow: Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, Royal College of Surgeons of England. Chairman of Scottish Committee Headway (The Brain Injury Association).

Mrs Susan Gilhespie

Lay member: Mental Health Review Tribunal, Care Standards Tribunal, British Assn. For Counselling & Psychotherapy Adjudication Panel. Member: Harrogate NHS Trust Patient & Public Involvement Forum.

Dr Rosemary Gillespie BA (Hons) RGN MA PGCEA PhD, Lay

Originally from a nursing background; senior lecturer in medical sociology and health policy at the University of Portsmouth 1991-2001; led the King’s Fund Patient Involvement Project 2001-2002; Associate Director of Education with the National Clinical Governance Support Team, NHS Modernisation Agency 2002-2005; Head of South West London, NHS Improvement Academy until December 2006; Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy and Research for Breast Cancer Care (Dec 2006-Nov 2007). Currently Chief Executive of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.

Mr Simon Gillespie MA, MBA, MPhil, Lay

1977-2000 Royal Navy. 2000-2004 Director of Operations, Charity Commission. 2004-2006 Head of Operations, Healthcare Commission. 2006-onwards Chief Executive, MS Society; Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine; Trustee/Director, Multiple Sclerosis International Federation; Trustee/Director, Neurological Alliance

Ms Wendy Golding, Lay

Chair, Housing Tribunal (LB Southwark). Appeal Body member - ICSTIS. Chair & Panel Member Education Appeals. School Governor, Educational Mediator, Independent Member, Standards Committee, London Borough of Southwark.

Dr Andrew L Goldstein MBChB MRCGP DGM, Medical

General Practice.

Professor Brian L Gomes da Costa JP, BSc(Soc), MA, FIL

Chair, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, April ‘01-Jan. ’04; Member, Asylum & Immigration Tribunal [AIT], June 2000-Feb 2008; Justice of the Peace for Haringey, w. e. f. 1977 [on Supplemental List since Oct 2002]; Gen Commissioner of Taxes 2000-02; Independent Chair, Standards Cttee, London Boro' of Barnet. 2001-05; Member, PCC of the UK Council on Psychotherapy, 2001-05; Chair, Independent Review Panels [IRPs], NHS London, 1998-2001.  Current Member of Standards Cttee of the Bar Standards Board; current Independent Chair, DDP proceedings within NHS.  Principal of Bath Spa University, 1985-1997.

Dr Michael Goodman BM, Bch DPhil FRCP, Medical

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Physician, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (now part-time). Medico-legal practice in Manchester and London. Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of London. Member: British Medical Association (BMA); British Society of Gastroenterology; Expert Witness Institute. Previously: Deputy Chairman, BMA Central Consultants and Specialists Committee.

Ms Jeanne Goulding BA Hons MA PGCE CQSW, Lay

Lay member of the General Dental Council’s Appointments Committee and of the General Social Care Council’s Registration and Conduct Committees. Management consultant and a director of Marketing and Business Planning Limited. Until recently Associate Hospital Manager at Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Case Manager for the Healthcare Commission. Previously Acting Assistant Principal of Dewsbury College (Further and Adult Education) and subsequently Head of Business Excellence at ASET, (a national awarding body, now part of Education Development International).

Dr Norman Gourlay MB ChB DipRS MA MTL MRCGP, Medical

Member of: British Medical Association and Royal College of GPs. Christian Medical Fellowship. Medically qualified Panel member of Tribunal Service.

Miss Aideen Grace LL.B (Hons) CPLS Solicitor, Lay

Legally Qualified Panel Member of Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland). Immigration Judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal. Legal Member of Northern Ireland Valuation Tribunal. Non-Executive Director of South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust (2002-2007). School Governor. Member of The Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Mrs Ailsa Granne B.A. (Hons.) M.R.Pharm.S., Lay

Registered, non-practising member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Non- ExecutIve Director of Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust.

Mr Michael Grant B.Ed, Lay

Retired Teacher and formerly Advisory Consultant to I.N.T.O. (Irish National Teachers Organisation).
Lay member of the Industrial Tribunals (N. Ireland). Independent Assessor for P.S.N.I. (Police Service of Northern Ireland) Recruitment.
Lay member of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (N Ireland).

Mrs B J Grant-Braham, Lay

Court Chairman & Member BTDC. Former Appraiser. Member, Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee. Former Borough Councillor/Mayoress. Borough Councillor 1995-2003.

Professor Roger Green, MB ChB MSc FRCP, Medical

Physiology. Professor of Physiology. Academic Group Leader Cancer Studies, University of Manchester. Member: Methodist Church, Royal College of Physicians of London, Medical Defence Union, BMA. GMC Associate.

Dr Mark Richard Groom MBChB MRCGP MFOM DAvMed MRAeS (Aviation Medicine Group), Medical

Professional background: Consultant Occupational Physician. Specialty: Aviation Medicine. Occupational Health Policy, Ministry of Defence, Whitehall. Member: Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Society of Occupational Medicine, Royal Aeronautical Society Aviation Medicine Group. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine.

Dr Michael Gumbley BSc MSc MB BS MRCGP DCH DRCOG, Medical

General Practice. Cardiology & Prescribing Sciences. Member, CHD Collaborative for West Country. Prescribing & CHD Advisor for West Wiltshire PCT.

Professor Romesh C Gupta MB BS MD MRCP FRCP (Edin) FRCP (Lond) MBA, Medical

Consultant Physician Lancs teaching hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Professor of Ethnicity & Health, University of Bolton.
Governor - Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust.
Preston and West Lancashire Ratial Equality Member of Board of Directors.
Member of Medical Defence Union.

Dr Sunil Gupta MBBCh DCH DRCOG DGM DFFP MRCGP, Medical

Member of Royal College of General Practitioners. General Practitioner. GP Trainer. Examiner for the Royal College of General Practitioners. Course Organiser in the Basildon Vocational Training Scheme. Trustee of The Queen's Nursing Institute. Chair of the Professional Executive Committee of South East Essex Primary Care Trust

Mr Shashank V Gurjar MA (Hons) Cant MBA MRCS (Eng) MRCS (Ed) MSc, Medical

Specialist Registrar in General Surgery (South East Thames circuit).

Dr Geoffrey Hanlon MA MB ChB DCH DRCOG FRCGP, Medical

Member Leicestershire LMC. Fellow RCGP. Clinical lead out of hours services Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT. Member Medical Defence Union. Freemason.

Dr Christopher D Hanning MRCS LRCP MB BS BSc FRCA MD, Medical

Formerly, consultant Anaesthetist (interest in Sleep Disorders Med), Univ Hosp of Leicester. Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia, University of Leicester. Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists. Member, British Sleep Society, Medical Protection Society. Secretary, Whetstone Baptist Church.

Mr Kevin Harrington JP, Lay

Director, Kevin Harrington Associates Ltd, Management consultants.
Member, British Association of Social Workers.
Member, Magistrates Association.
Associate, Capita Strategic Children's Services.

Dr Vicki Harris MA (Oxon); MA (Michigan) FCCA, PhD, C.Dip.A.F., Lay

Partner Clifton Corporate Services. Director, Clifton Corporate Services Ltd. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine; Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Member of the Bar Standards Board and Chair of the BSB Performance and Best Value Committee. Chairman, Taxation Disciplinary Board. Member of the Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council. Member of the Fitness to Practise Panel, General Optical Council. Member of the Disciplinary Panel, Institute of Legal Executives. Member of the Regulatory and Disciplinary Panels, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Director, Institute of Jewish Policy Research. Member, Board of Management, Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue.

Mr Robert Hart BSc (Hons) Psychology Dip Ed Psychology Psychologist

Education Psychologist. Member, Special Educational Needs & Disability Tribunal. Chair, Barnardo's Worcestershire Short-break Project. Chair, Books & Beyond UK. Member of the British Psychological Society.

Dr Irfan Hassan MB BS LRCP MRCS DRCOG MRCGP JP, Medical

1. Full-time General Medical Practitioner with WHSSB. 2. MRCGP. 3. Honorary Secretary BMA/Western Div of BMA Int)

Miss Karen Heenan BA (Hons) MA Cantab, Lay

Chief Executive, Charity Trustee Networks. Trustee, Getting on Board. Independent Member, Standards Committee, Surrey County Council. Independent Member, Standards Committee, Waverley Borough Council. Independent Member, Audit Committee, Surrey Probation Board.

Professor Timothy Hendra BSc (Hons) MD FRCP, Medical

Consultant Physician and Geriatrician and Deputy Medical Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield. Hon Professor to Faculty of Health and Well-Being, Sheffield Hallam University. Hon Senior Clinical Lecturer, Sheffield Institute for Studies on Ageing, Sheffield University. Member of: a. British Geriatrics Society; b. British Association of Stroke Physicians; c. Sub-Specialist Advisory Committee for Stroke Medicine of Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board; d. Steering Group of the National Confidential Enquiry Into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD); e. Appeals Panel of the Postgraduate Medical Education Board (PMETB). Visitor for the National Clinical Assessment Service (National Patient Safety Agency). Fellow Royal College of Physicians of London. Freemason.

Dr N Hester MB ChB, Medical

General Practice (Retired 04/2001). Medical advisor to Lay Complaints Conciliator, Shropshire P.C.T. Member: Liberal Democrat Party, BMA, MDU. Freemason.

Dr Pearl Daisy Jebaranee Hettiaratchy OBE FRCPsych FRCPsych (Hon), Medical

Current posts: Emeritus Consultant, Hampshire Partnership Trust. Associate Member, General Medical Council. Medical Member, MHRT, Lord Chancellor's appointment (1994 - to date). Post-grarduate Dean's Representative, Wessex Deanery. Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member, BMA, Co-opted member of Equal Opportunities Committee. Past Appointments: Consultant Psychiatrists, Winchester & Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust (retired Feb 2002). Secretary of State appointments: i) second opinion appointed doctor, MHAC (1989-2003); ii) mental health act commissioner (1989-1998). Vice President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (1995-1997). Background Interests: Mental health, elderly care, issues related to quality of care and long-term care. Mental Health Act Reform. Discrimination and racism in the NHS.

Mrs Sheila Hewitt JP BSc (Econ) ACIB, Lay

Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal. Immigration Appeals Tribunal. Magistrates' Bench, Independent Assessor for Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments (OCPA).

Dr Ian Peter Hine JP FRCA MSc, Medical

Retired Consultant Anaesthetist. Member: BMA, AAGBI, Medical Protection Society, Herefordshire Medical Society. Board of Trustees, CLD Youth Counselling Trust. Board of Directors, The Courtyard Centre for the Arts. Justice of the Peace (Bench Chairman 2003 - 6). Member, Herefordshire Local Safeguarding Children Board. Herefordshire Bench.

Professor Ken Hobbs Medical

Ex GMC-appointed member Deputy chair PCC. Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Royal Free & University College School of Medicine, University of London. Trustee Blond McIndoe Medical Research Foundation. Chairman 'New Buckenham Society' . Elected Governor Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Mr Ronald William Hoile MS FRCS, Medical

General & Vascular Surgeon. Formerly Medical Director, Secondary Care Division, Care UK. NHS Consultant Surgeon 1983 – 2007. Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England. Fellow of Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland. Member of The Vascular Society. School Governor – King’s School, Rochester, Kent.

Ms Sheila Hollingworth JP MA BEd (Hons), Cert. Ed, Lay

Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Panels, Health Professions Council. Lay Panel Chair, Conduct Committee, General Social Care Council. Lay Panel Chair, Dental Complaints Service, General Dental Council. Magistrate and Court Chairman. Independent Educationist Member and Panel Chair, School Appeals Panel. Lay Chair, School Exclusion Panel.

Dr Timothy Robert G Howard MB BS (Lond), LRCP MRCS, DObstRCOG, MRCGP, Medical

General Practitioner (retired). Member, Royal College of General Practitioners. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine. Ex GP trainer, ex Director, Dorset Health Authority (non exec). Chairman Manor Cottage Care Ltd (owns Residential Homes).

Dr Paul Howell BSc MBChB FRCA, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist - St Bartholomew's and Homerton Hospitals, London. Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists. Member of the British Medical Association (BMA), President (2008-2011) Obstetric Anaesthetists Association (OAA). Member of Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britian & Ireland (AAGBI).

Dr Michael Isaac MA MB BS MRCPsych MAE QDR, Medical

Psychiatry, Pathology, Research Ethics. Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Dr Anthony Isaacs MA MSc BM BCh FRCP, Medical

Consultant Endocrinologist, London Medical. Former Senior Medical Assessor, MHRA. Emeritus Consultant Endocrinologist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. Former Honorary visiting Professor, Middlesex University. Member: Society for Endocrinology; BMA, MDDUS. Fellow RCP (London); RSM. Former Member of Council and Honorary Vice President, Section of Endocrinology and Diabetes, RSM. Chair of Governors, Hendon School.

Dr Andrew Jackson MB BCh BAO MRCGP DCH DRCOG Dip, Musculo-Skeletal Medicine, Medical

General Practice Principle, Bangor, Northern Ireland. General Practitioner 18 years. Interest in musculoskeletal medicine. Member of Presbyterian Church. Royal College of General Practitioners, Medical Protection Society and British Medical Association.

Mr Rotimi A K Jaiyesimi MBA FRCOG FWACS, Medical

Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. Member of: British Fertility Society; Society of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists of Nigeria; The North of England Medico Legal Society British Menopause Society; British Medical Association; Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; Royal Society for the Promotion of Health; Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and GPs (MANSAG); Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA).Member of Council, Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association.. Partner (Medical Assessor), Health Professions Council. A Lead Visitor for the Hospital Recognition Committee. Mentor, RCOG Mentoring Scheme. Previously, RCOG College Tutor. Associate Editor, Sexual Health Matters Journal. Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the Royal Society of Health. Peer Reviewer for: NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme; Clinical Evidence; Journal of the Royal Society of Health. Member of: the Eldership Team, Elim Pentecostal Church, Heaton, Newcastle.

Dr Sarah Jarvis BSc MB BS MRCGP, Medical

Member of the British Medical Association. Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Part time General Practitioner. GP Trainer.

Dr Pramod Jauhar MB BS DPM FRCPsych, Medical

Psychiatry. Formerly Consultant Psychiatrist, Greater Glasgow PCT. Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow. Clinical Director, Medicines Resource Management, Mental Health Division, Greater Glasgow NHS. Regional Advisor & Member/Exec of Faculty of Substance Misuse, Royal College of Psychiatrists. HM Medical Commissioner (part-time), Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. Lay Governor, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Dr Peter Jefferys FRCP FRCPsych MB BCh, Medical

Consultant, Psychiatry of Old Age (Northwick Park Hospital - employer CNWL Mental Health NHS Trust). On specialist register for Old Age Psychiatry and General Psychiatry. Member BGS (British Geriatrics Society); MDU : Labour Party; Alzheimer's Society; MIND. Fellow RCP (London); Fellow RC Psychiatrists. Chair London S12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval Panel. Lay Partner Health Professions Council. Second Opinion Appointed Doctor : Mental Health Act Commission. Medical Advisor Harrington Horticultural Training Scheme, London N6.

Dr Michael G Jeffries BSc, MBChB DCCH, FRCGP, Medical

Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Consultant Adviser to the Royal Air Force. Member: Defence Medical Services General Practice Education Committee. Fellow Royal Society of Medicine. Member: British Medical Association.

Mr David Jenkins BA (Hons) OBE, Lay

Chair of the National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare in Wales. Chair of the Wales Co-operative Development Centre. Chair of Opportunity Wales. Member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. From 1983 to 2004, General Secretary of the Wales TUC.

Mr Ian Jennings, BA (Hons) Cert. Education, Lay

Former Director of Education. Consultancy work in education. FTP Panellist, Nursing & Midwifery Council. Trustee - National Children's Centre. Trustee - Nationwide Children's Research Centre.

Dr Helen Joesbury MBE FRCGP MEd D(Obst)RCOG DCh, Medical

Currently a senior clinical lecturer in the Academic Unit of Primary Care Medicine, Sheffield University. GP appraiser and PCT assessor for QoF and IM&T Des. I provide clinical advice for Primary Care Contracting (East Midlands) in its work on health inequalities. Retired as a GP principal in 2008. Previous roles include clinical advisor for the Healthcare Commission and GP advisor for the Department of Health. Member of the Sheffield faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Michael Alwyn Johnson MB ChB DPH MRCGP DRCOG, Medical

Retired General Practitioner. Retired Specialist Prescriber Adult Community Drug Team Kirklees. Medical Advisor Complaints Kirklees PCT's. Advisor, NCAS. Fell & Rock Climbing Club.

Ms Maggie Jones BA (Hons), Lay

Member of the House of Lords, Chair of Circle 33 Housing Association and Board Member of Circle Anglia, Vice Chair of School Food Trust, Trustee of Shelter, Chair of RICS Ombudsman Scheme; Board Member of WRAP. Previous Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Unison. Labour Party and Unison Member.

Ms Joy Julien BSc Social Sciences, Post Grad Dip. Law MSc Race & Ethnic Relations, Lay

Lay Member: Office for Judicial Complaints. Non-Executive Member : London Legal Support Trust. Lay Assessor: Counter Police Assessment Service. Lay Assessor: National Clinical Assessment Service. Formerly: Member of the Parole Board; Business mentor, Prince's Trust; Trustee of Legal Action Group; Trustee Central London Law Centre; Director of the African Caribbean Finance Forum; Director of the Royal Courts of Justice Citizens Advice Bureau

Mrs Muktesh K Kakar MA Dip CG, Dip ILM, FFA, FAETC, Lay

Board Member, Merseyside Probation Service; Fitness to Practise Committee, British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACPS); Ex Non-Executive Director, South Liverpool Primary Care Trust; Magistrate, Merseyside; Grant Committee, Liverpool Community Chest Fund; Bilingual Steering Committee, Merseyside Fire Service; Ex Business Advisor, Princess Youth Business Trust; Hon. Secretary, Hindu Cultural Organisation. Independent advisor Merseyside Police.

Dr Steve M B J McKie Kane-ToddHall BM BCh (Oxford 99) MA DFFP DRCOG Dip.Ther. , Medical

GP Partner, Redcar, Teeside. Primecare, Cleveland, sessional out of hours doctor. Liberal Democratic Party Member. Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Healthcare member. Medical writing. BMA & MDU member.

Mrs Veena Kapila Barrister, Lay

Qualified as a Barrister (Lincolns Inn). Consultant, Employment Law & Human Resources and Committee Member of Womens Indian Association. Lecturer in Law for 25 years until 2000.

Professor David R Katz MB ChB PhD FRCPath, Medical

Pathology (Immunology). Professor of Immunopathology, UCL. Convener of Subject Panel in Pathology, University of London. Editor: International Journal of Experimental Pathology. Medical Protection Society. Member: British Society for Immunology. Member: Pathological Society. Member: Royal Society of Medicine. Member: British Society for Rheumatology. Member: International Academy of Pathology. Member: British Medical Association. FRCPath. Advisory Board: Jewish AIDS Trust, Shechita UK. Medical Academic Staff Committee Executive Member British Medical Association. Representative of South Hampstead Synagogue, Board of Deputies of British Jews. Member of Defence and Group Relations Board, Board of Deputies of British Jews. Chairman of British Fellowship of Israel Medical Association. Member of Advisory Board, Three Faiths Forum. Member of MRC Advisory Board.

Dr Christina Kenny MB ChB MRCGP DRCOE DCH DFFP Dip Hlth Mgt CPGME, Medical

Medical Director and Chair of the Professional Executive Committee, Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust. GP and GP Trainer Member, Health Professions Council Fitness to Practise Committee Member, UK Council of Caldicott Guardians Honorary Secretary, Thames Valley Faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners Member, Buckinghamshire Local Medical Committee
Member, Executive Editorial Board, Clinical Leader. Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine. Member, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland. Member, British Medical Association. Diplomate, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.

Mrs Corinna Kershaw BA (Hons), Lay

Hearings Panel Chairman/member, General Optical Council. President, Westonbirt Association. School Governor. Conduct Committee member, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Member, GOsC Professional Conduct Committee.

Dr Naheed Khan-Lodhi MB BS DCH MRCGP, Medical

Principal General Practitioner. Member: Royal College of GPs & Medical Protection Society. Board certified in internal medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine. Member: Local Medical Committee. Prescribing cluster lead for Waltham Forest PCT. Medical Director for Primecare till 31/8/04.

Dr Ananta V Kidambi DMRD FRCR (London) FFRRCSI (Dublin), Medical

Diagnostic Radiology. Consultant Radiologist, University Hospital (Hartlepool).GMC Performance Assessor. Member, Ethic Monitoring Group (RCR). Vice Chairman, Medical Staff Committee of N.Tees & Hartlepool NHS Trust. Clinical Assessor, NCAA. Management positions previously held at the Trust, levels: Clinical Director, Medical Director, Acting Chief Executive.

Dr Robin Peter Knill-Jones BChir MB MA MSc DPH FRCP FFPH FRCP&S, Dip. Sports Medicine, Medical

Formerly Reader in Epidemiology, Hon Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Chair, Part I examination for Faculty of Public Health. Regional Medical Appraiser, Appeals Service. Member Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel and Pensions Appeals Tribunal. Member: British Society of Gastroenterology, Royal Society of Med, Harveian Society of London, Society of Occupational Medicine, British Computer Society, Royal Statistical Society.

Dr Ruth Knowles MBChB MRCP MRCGP DCH, Medical

Principal in General Practice, Special Interests in Medical Education and Paediatrics. MRCGP, MRCP (Paeds). Member MDU.

Dr Surendra Kumar MB BS FRCGP, Medical

General Practice. President, British International Doctors Association (formerly ODA). Interests: Medical Defence matters & Medico-politics. Member: General Practitioner's Committee (BMA), UK National Screening Committee (Dept of Health). Council Member, Royal College of GPs. Fellow: royal College of GPs (FRCGP). Fellow BMA. Member Independent Review Panels of MHRA (Medicine & Health Care Regulatory Agency).

Dr Wendy Cecilia Kuriyan MBBS FFAEM Dip in Law, Medical

Emergency Medicine Consultant, special interest in Paediatrics. Barrister - not practising. Committees: Area Child Protection, Hospital Documentation, Police Liaison, Psychiatry Liaison, Hospital & Area Major Incident Planning Groups. Sexual Offences Forensic Clinical Examiner for Adults & Children at The Haven Paddington London.

Mr David Kyle BA (Hons) Cantab CBE, Lay

Barrister (non-practising) . Formerly Chief Crown Prosecutor and Member of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Member of the Inner Temple; Lay member of the British Psychological Society Professional Conduct Board; Lay member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Conduct Committee; Lay member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel.

Mr Richard Kyle BSc (Eng) CEng, Lay

Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS). Magistrate (JP).

Dr Hugh Laing BSc MBBS FRCP MRCS, Medical

Senior Partner in General Practice, Consulting Endoscopist at Wessex Nuffield Hospital, Hampshire. Chief Medical Officer - Norwich Union Healthcare. Chief Medical Advisor - HSBC (Life). Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Ms Caroline Langridge Masters in Public Policy Studies (Member Institute of Health Management), Lay

Non Executive Director Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust 2001-2008. Vice Chair : Investigation Committee. Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) 2005-2008. 30 yrs NHS career, including time as a CHC Secretary, General Manager, Senior Civil Servant, DOH/NHS Executive. CHI Reviewer. Non-Executive Director, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. Member: Institute of Health Management. Fellow RSA. Member of Labour Party.

Miss Mandie Jane Lavin Registered Nurse Barrister-at-Law MA (Medical Law & Ethics), Lay

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Director. Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, Chairman of Consultant Appointments Panels. Member: Professional Negligence Bar Association, Medical Defence Union, Medico Legal Society, Association of Women Barristers. Chairman of Disciplinary Committee of the Association of Accounting Technicians. Member of the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers. Independent Examiner, the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries (Scotland).

Professor Thomas W J Lennard MD FRCS, Medical

Professor of Surgery. Head of School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences (University of Newcastle upon Tyne). Royal College of Surgeons of England Court of Examiners. President Elect, British Association of Endocrine Surgeons (2007-2009). President of North of England Surgical Society (2005-2006). Member: James IV Association of Surgery. Member: Medical Protection Society.

Ms Alyson Leslie MA PGCE DipSW/CQSW, Lay

Director, Callanan Leslie. Interim Manager. Researcher.

Dr Lorraine Linton MA MBChB MRCP, Medical

Principal General Practice. Member: Local Research Ethics Committee, BMA, MPS. Governor, Ripley Court School.

Mrs Leora M B Lloyd MBA DIPCOT, Lay

Former Occupational Therapist with over 20 years management experience. Self-Employed Portfolioist from 1999 to date: Previous appointments: NHS Non-Executive Director; Lay Panellist/Visitor, Health Professions Council; Current appointments: Lay Member, Employment Tribunals Service; Lay Member, British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy; Business Mentor (Voluntary) Prince's Trust; Artistic & Creative pursuits.

Rev Robert Lloyd-Richards MA, Lay

Ordained Church in Wales Cleric. Member of the British Horological Institute. NMC Fitness to Practise Panel Member. Former Chaplaincy Manager, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, and Ass. Lecturer Cardiff University, and Non-clinical Teacher, School of Medicine, Cardiff. Retired.
Former Member of the College of Healthcare Chaplains, The Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Chaplains, and the UK

Dr George John Lodge BSc MB BS MRCS LRCP DPM MRCPsych, Medical

Part-time judicial member of Mental Health Review Tribunal. Psychiatry (Adult). Formerly Consultant Psychiatrist Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Parish Councillor. Member Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member British Medical Association. Member Medical Protection Society. Fellow Royal Society of Medicine. Member Bath Clinical Society.

Dr Laura Janet Lodge MBChB LLM MRCGP, Medical

MB ChB MRCGP. Professional Background: 20 years as Principal in General Practice in mixed urban/rural group practice. 12 years experience in general adult psychiatry. Other adjudication work : Health Professions Council. Charitable work: Secretary and trustee small local charity. Member, Royal College of General Practitioners. Affiliate Royal College of Psychiatrists. Approved under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act as having special experience in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder. MDU. BMA. Bath Clinical Society.

Mr Stuart Lord BSc Econ, Lay

Retired civil servant, having worked mainly in the Department for Work and Pensions and its predecessors. Final post was as Director for Service Strategy and Commercial Partnerships and member of the Departmental Board. Previous posts included Director of Finance and Planning, Director of Security in the Benefits Agency, and Principal Private Secretary. On secondment as a Director in the Government Office for London, led the work of an expert group to produce the blueprint on congestion charging in London. Post retirement, served as Non-executive Director of Richmond and Twickenham Primary Care Trust.

Dr Frances Loughridge MB ChB, Medical

Member : Full-time General Practitioner. LMC. Magistrate London Borough Harringay. Member : DLA/Incapacity Tribunal Appeal Panel.

Mr Roy Luff OBE DL MSc AMet CEng CSci FIMMM FIEE FRSA, Lay

Former Managing Director of Aluminium Corporation, part of Alcan Aluminium of Canada (1982-96) and former Non Executive Director and Vice Chairman of The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (1999-2007). Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist, Member of the College Court of the University College of North Wales and Independent Assessor (public appointments) for the Wales Assembly Government. Deputy Lieutenant in the County of Clwyd, North Wales.

Mrs Jane Margaret Mackay MSc RGN RHV, Lay

Chair of Mental Health Homicide Inquiries; Former nursing adviser to the Health Ombudsman; Nurse member H.M.I. Prison; Chair Governing Body, Special Needs School; Trustee of the Infant Trust. Trustee 1930 Nurses Fund; Panellist fitness to practise BACP.

Mrs Angela Macpherson, Lay

Housewife. Partner in family farm. Lay member of Multi-research Ethics Committee (Scotland). General Commissioner, Inland Revenue (Ross & Cromarty). Formerly Civil Servant (MAFF), non-executive director of Highland Health Board and lay member of GMC.

Dr Ronald MacWalter BMSc(Hons) MD FRCP, Medical

Consultant Physician, NHS Tayside, Honorary Reader in Medicine, University of Dundee. Fellow of: The Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh; Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Executive Committee Member of Scottish Heart & Arterial Disease Risk Prevention Group (SHARP) 2002-to present; Scottish Stroke Research Network, 2005 to present. Member of: Dundee Medical Club; Forfarshire Medical Society; British Medical Association; British Geriatric Society; British Hypertension Society; Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine; Scottish Society of Physicians; British Stroke Research Group; British Association of Stroke Physicians; Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Stroke Council, American Heart Association 2003 to present; Rotary Club of Dundee Camperdown. Chairman: Education and Training Committee, British Association of Stroke Physicians 2005 to 2008; Clinical Practice Evaluation Committee, British Geriatrics Society 2005 to 2008.

Dr Peter Bernard Maguire LRCSI LRCPI FFARCSI, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist, Daisy Hill Hospital (Newry). Member: BMA, AAGBI, MDU. Fellow of Anaethetists, Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland). Elected member BMA Council (UK & NI). Appointed member, BMA Board of Science.

Mr Humfrey MalinsCBE MP MA(hons), Lay

Member of Parliament for Woking (Conservative). Oxford Recorder of the Crown Court. Home affairs. Interests: Criminal Law, Judicial matters. Deputy District Judge. Solicitor.

Mrs Pamela Mansell CQSW AMDP MA, Lay

Senior Partner PMA Consultancy specialising in improving performance in public services, adviser to government bodies on safeguarding standards and regulation for both vulnerable people and children, independent panellist for the Judicial Appointments Commission, Committee for GSCC, GMC Fitness to Practise Panellist, Governor for Treloars College. Previous employment : C/E of Charity: Director of Children and Family Services - LB. Member: CIPD : Past President - Inner Wheel organisation.

Dr Martin D Mansfield MBChB FRCA, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist: The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust & The Suffolk Nuffield Hospital (Foxhall Rd, Ipswich). Fellow of Royal College of Anaesthetists. Member: Assoc of Anaesthetists (GB & Ireland), BMA, MDDUS, Regional Medical Advisory Group, East Anglican Ambulance Service, St Mary's Primary School (Governing Body, Woodbridge, Suffolk). Hospital Resuscitation Committee, Ipswich Hospital.

Dr Harvey Marcovitch MA MB FRCP FRCPCH, Medical

Medical writer/trainer. Paediatrician. Syndications Editor, BMJ Publishing Group and associate editor BMJ. Chairman, Committee on Publication Ethics; board member UK Panel for Biomedical Research Integrity. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (London); Honorary fellow, Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health.

Dr Hameen Markar FRCP FRCPsych MPhil, Medical

Medical Director/Consultant Psychiatrist Bedfordshire & Luton Partnership NHS Mental Health Trust. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin). Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Associate – Health Care Commission; Medical Member - Mental Health Review Tribunal. Appointed Doctor - Mental Health Commission. Examiner – Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Mr John Matharu BSc Computer & Marketing (1983), Lay

Education & Training Consultant Chairman - Leicester Schools Appeals Panel. Chairman - Healthcare Commission Independent NHS Appeals Panel. Lay Panel Member - General Medical Council - Investigation Committee. - General Medical Council - Registration Decisions Panel. Lay Panel Member - Health Professions Council. Lay Panel Member - British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapists. Lay Reviewer - Healthcare Commission. Lay Visitor - Postgraduate Medical Education & Training Board.

Dr Peter Mayer MA FRCP, Medical

Retired consultant physician in geriatric and stroke medicine.
Trustee of local and national executive Crossroads Caring for Carers.
Trustee University Hospital Birmingham Charities (2008-2012).
Chair, West Midlands Local Stroke Research Network.
Chair. Age Concern Weoley Castle.
Hon. President Institute of Ageing and Health (West Midlands).
Executive Committee, Birmingham Lunar Society.
Assistant Governor, Rotary District 1060.
Member: BACOP – adviser Local Authority on older people’s services (appointed 2008).
Trustee. Birmingham and District Nursing Charitable Trust (appointed 2007).
Trustee Nurses Reaching Out 2009 on
Member: Labour Party

Dr Lisa McClelland BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCPsych, Medical

Consultant Psychiatrist working at Devon Partnership NHS Trust Exeter. Consultant UCLH, London. Independent practice at Exeter Nuffield Hospital.
Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych). Chair PIPSIG (Private and Independent Psychiatrist Special Interest Group) Royal College of Psychiatry (RCPsych). Member of CPD Committee RCPsych
Member Revalidation Committee RCPsych. Member of South West Regional Executive Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member of MPS.

Dr John Robert McCluggage FRCGP MB BCh M F RCGP FRCP (Edin & Ire), Medical

Formerly Postgraduate Dean & Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Council for Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education. Member: Medical Protection Society, BMA, Alliance Party (Northern Ireland). Fellow: Royal College of GPs, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Miss Sheleen McCormack LLB (Hons) Barrister, Lay

Head of Fitness to Practise - Royal Pharmaceutical Society for Great Britain from May 2009. Member of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple. Member of Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Professor Denis Gordon McDevitt JP, BSc(Soc), MA, FIL

Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacology. Former Head of Clinical Pharmacology & Dean of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, The University of Dundee; & Consultant Physician, Tayside University Hospital NHS Trust. Ex appointed Member & Treasurer of GMC. Member of Council of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh & Faculty Board of Faculty of Pharmaceutical Physicians.
Fellow of:
The Royal Colleges of Physicians of London, Edinburgh and Ireland;
The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine;
The Academy of Medical Sciences and
The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Mr Alexander McFarlane MB BS FRCS MRCGP, Medical

Member: British Medical Association; Scottish Catholic Medical Association. Medical Protection Society; Former member of Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Fellow: Royal College of Surgeons of England. Senior Medically Qualified Panel Member (The Appeals Service) : Department of Constitutional Affairs.

Dr Patrick J McGrath MB BCh MRCGP D Obst RCOG, Medical

Retired after 30 years service as a General Practitioner and part-time Hospital Practitioner in ENT surgery. Continues in regular clinical practice as a Forensic Physician and also teaches Clinical Forensic Medicine at the University of Ulster as an Honorary Professor. Additionally, sits on a number of public bodies, including the social security Appeals Tribunal and the Criminal Injuries Appeals Panel and is a Life Sentence Review Commissioner for N. Ireland. Furthermore, he serves as Chairman of the N. Ireland Association of Forensic Medical Officers and was recently elected a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.
Member of the Medical Defence Union and the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Philip Charles McLean MBChB DPM FRCPsych, Medical

Consultant Psychiatrist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Member: BMA, MDU, Observers & Feedback Panel (Royal College of Psychiatrists). Examiner & supervisor for GMC and GDC Health Procedures. Member of Mental Health Review Tribunals.

Ms Patrica McLoughlin BA (Hons) Applied Social Studies CQSW, Lay

Family Court Adviser/Children's Guardian employed by CAFCASS (Child & Family Court Advisory Service). Expert/Lay Member Care Standards Tribunal. Member of Baspean (British Assoc for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect).

Very Rev Professor Gordon F McPhate MB ChB MA MTh MSc MD FRCP (Edin), Medical

Dean of Chester Cathedral. Visiting Professor, University College Chester, (University of Liverpool). Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Royal College of Pathologists (Associate). Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (Fellow). Society of Ordained Scientists. General Medical Council (Associate). Higher Education Academy (Member). Governor of King's School, Chester. Governor of University College, Chester.

Dr Elaine Melrose MBChB FRCOG, Medical

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, with special interest in colposcopy and osteoporosis. Member various committees, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists (2000 - date). Elder of the Church of Scotland. Member: Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS). Secretary & Treasurer: Women's Visiting Gynaecological Club.

Mr Michael Menlowe BA (University of Pittsburgh); B.Litt. (Oxon); LLB (University of Edinburgh), Lay

Philosopher. Formerly Head of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh. Scottish Committee of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council. Home Office National DNA Database Ethics Group. Board of Directors, Scottish Refugee Council. Lay Member of the Royal College of Pathologists.

Mr Paul Middleton-Roy LLB (Hons), Lay

Immigration Judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal; Deputy District Judge (Civil) (London circuit); Road User Charging Adjudicator (London); Member of the Law Society; Independent Member of the Armed Forces' Service Complaints Panel.

Dr Diana Evelyn Miller MB BS (1967, Lond) LRCP MRCS (1967, Eng) DA (1969) FRCA (1971) LLM (1992, Wales), Medical

Current Post: Senior Adviser in Professional Performance at Avon Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority. Background Interests: Medical Protection Society, British Medical Association, School Governor - Downe House, RG19 9JJ.

Professor Stephen Miller BSc PhD, Lay

Deputy Vice Chancellor, City University till 1.9.2006. Chair, Board of Directors, UK Health Education Partnership (Partnership of RCN, City, Ulster & Leicester Universities) till 1.9.2006. Trustee : Olive Tree Educational Trust. Vice Chairman, Hampstead Garden Suburb Synagogue. Trustee : The Montefiore Endowment.

Dr Jacqueline Mitton MA PhD ARCM FRAS, Lay

PhD in Astronomy. Author & publishing consultant. Director, Total Astronomy Ltd. Fellow and member of Council of the Royal Astronomical Society. Member, Conservative Party.

Dr Douglas A Moederle-Lumb MRCGP T (GP) MBChB, Medical

General Practice (Urban). Member of Small Practice Association. Member of MDDUS, Member of BMA. Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners. GP Appraiser for Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale PCT. Secretary for Scarborough, Whitby & Ryedale GP Medical Committee. Deputy Medical Secretary for North Yorkshire & Bradford LMC's. Past President, Scarborough Branch of BMA.

Dr Alan Everard Montgomery CMG  BA  PhD

British High Commisssioner, Dar es Salaam, 1995-1998; HM Ambassador, Manila, 1992-1995
Lay Panellist :
Immigration Services Tribunal, 2001-2007;
General Council of the Bar, 2001-2007; Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, 2003-2006;
Surrey Police Authority Misconduct Tribunal, 2004---

Dr Parimala Moodley MBChB FRCPsych, Medical

Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Member of the Council. Chair of the Special Committee on Ethnic Issues of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Medical member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal and Second Opinion Doctor for the Mental Health Act Commission.

Dr Anthony Morgan BSc MD FRCP, Medical

Retired Consultant and physician and medical director, Nottingham City Hospital. Fellow: Royal College of Physicians of London. Member: British Medical Association, Medical Defence Union. Formerly Associate: Healthcare Commission, Assessor: National Clinical Assessment Service.

Dr Lewis Morrison MBChB (Hons, Edinburgh 1992) FRCPE, Medical

Consultant Physician, General & Geratric Medicine. Fellow RCP Edinburgh. Honorary senior lecturer. Clinical interests: Osteoporosis, Parkinson's Disease. Responsible for education, training, assessment & appraisal of Undergraduate & Postgraduate doctors. Member, Scottish Council of BMA, Chairman - Lothian Division. Scottish Consultants Committee, BMA Committee in Community Care. College tutor (RCP Edinburgh).

Dr David Murphy MBChB DRCOG FRCGP, Medical

Senior Partner Sleaford Medical Group, former GP trainer, Clinical Governance Advisor to Lincolnshire (Teaching) PCT, BMA member, Chairman Lincolnshire LMC, Fellow RCGP, Faculty Board Member, Trent Faculty RCGP. MDU.

Mr Nicholas Myerson BA MB BS (Lond) MRCOG, Medical

Current Post: Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals Lead for undergraduate education. Background: Member, Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. Medical Protection Society. Member, Higher Education Academy. Association for Medical Education in Europe. British Fetal and Maternal Medicine Society. British Society For Colposcopy - Cervical Pathology. British Medical Association; Senior Staff Representative, Leeds Division Committee.

Dr Gurbinder Nandhara MBChB (Manchester), MRCS (Ed), Medical

Current Post : Clinical Research Fellow in Orthopaedics. Trustee Board Member for Leeds Housing Concern, a charity for the homeless in Leeds. Member: Royal College of Surgeons.

Dr Ian Neale MA BM BCh DRCOG, Medical

General Practice. Senior Partner, Dr Neale & Partners. Assessor, NCAS, Expert Advisor Complaints Healthcare Commission. Appeals Service Medically Qualified Panel Member. Elected member, Oxfordshire Local Medical Committee. Member: Chalgrove Charity Trustees, Medical Protection Society. BMA. Former non Executive Director Oxfordshire Health Authority, Clinical Governance Reviewer Healthcare Commission and Local Medical Committee Secretary. Medical Advisor Oxfordshire Out of Hours Integrated Care Service.

Mr Alan Nisbett BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics (University of Oxford); MSc (Econ) University of London, Diploma in Education (Oxford); Lay

Formerly, Her Majesty's Inspector (HMI) of Further and Higher Education; currently, Independent Quality Consultant; HMI (part-time) Courts Administration, Ministry of Justice; Independent Adviser to the Prescription Committee of the Architects' Registration Board; Review Co-ordinator for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. 'Skillsmark' Reviewer for Skills for Justice. Consultant for Foundation Degree Forward. Consultant for Employer Based Training Accreditation (EBTA).

Dr Mohammad Obaidullah MB BS FRCOG FRCGP DPD Dip Palliative Med LLM Dip Medical Humanities, Medical

Dr Mohammad Obaidullah MBBS FRCOG FRCGP DPD Dip Palliative Medicine LLM Dip Medical Humanities. General Practice. Member; Local Research Ethics Committee South West Wales, Multi-Research Ethics Committee of Wales. GP Appraiser. Independent Appeals Tribunals. Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board. Clinical Advisor Statutory Committees of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Peer Reviewer Health Care Inspectorate Wales. Medical Assessor, National Clinical Assessment Service. Past President Rotary Club of Bridgend.
Fellow of the Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Niall O'Connell LLM MB BS FRCGP DRCOG DFFP, Medical

GP Woodley Berkshire 1980-2003. GP Wiltshire 2003- . FRCGP. GP Trainer. Visiting Prof in Family Practice. UBC. Vancouver 2002.

Dr Toyin Okitikpi (FRSA) BA Social Policy & Administration; CQSW (Social Work); PhD., Lay

Mental Health Review Tribunal. Member of Asylum & Immigration Tribunal. Member of Adventure - social work/social welfare consultancy. Member of monitoring committee - Bar Council. Researcher - Social work/Social welfare. Member of Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel.

Dr Acha Edegbanya Jeremiah Okoko MB BS DPM MRCPsych MSc(SHU) MSc(OPEN) FMCPsych MIBiol, Medical

Consultant Psychiatrist, Bawnsley PCT. Specialty, General adult Psychiatry. Forensic Medicine. Member: Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Assoc for Psychopharmacology, BMA, Medical Protection Society, Institute of Biology. Hon Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry, University of Sheffield.

Mr Olusola Olumide Akindele Oni FRCSed MB BS FRCSEng MD FWACS MSc FMCS, Medical

Graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1973), MD and MSc University of Leicester, LLM University of Cardiff and Postgraduate Certificate in Health Care Management, De Montfort University. Trained at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, London, Watford and Leicester. Fellow of the Colleges of Edinburgh, West Africa, Nigeria and England. College Examiner (RCSEdinburgh). Formerly College Tutor (RCSEngland). Formerly Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Leicester. Appointed NHS Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in 1990. Retired early into fulltime private practice 2004. Elected member of the GMC 1999-2003; now GMC Associate. Medically Qualified Panel Member, Appeals Board. Consultant Specialist Member, Police Appeals Board.

Dr Kao Hua (Colin) Ooi MBChB (Glas) DCH DRCOG, Medical

Principal GP (single-handed practice). Vice-chairman, Coatbridge LHCC (PCT). Member: Disability Appeal Tribunal, President Rotary Club. GP Appraiser & Practice Accreditor; Tribunal Medical Appraiser; University of Glasgow Tutor, Medical Acupuncture.

Mr William O'Shaughnessy LLM MSc CertEd FIMC CMgr MCMI Chartered FCIPD, Lay

Deputy HR Director - UK Borders Agency. Assistant Chief Officer - Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary. Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultancy; Chartered Manager; Member of the Chartered Management Institute. Non-political member of the National Liberal Club, London SW

Dr Josephine Owen-Jones MSc MBBS MRCGP DRCOG, Medical

General practitioner. Also GP appraiser, QOF assessor. Clinical assessor for NCAS. BMA member. MDU.

Dr Shiv Kumar Pande MBE JP MB BS FRCGP DL MS, Medical

Hon. Senior Lecturer - School of Health, John Moore University, Liverpool. Part-time GP (General Practice). General Secretary, Indo British Assoc (North). Chairman, Mersey Faculty Board Royal College of GPs. Member: Media/Medics Assoc of Broadcasting Doctors. Patron & Honorary Director, Assoc of Mentally Infirm Elderly (Liverpool). Past Non-Exec Director, Hornby Housing (Liverpool). President (1999-2001), British Medical Assoc (Liverpool Division). Associate Member, Medical Journalists Assoc. JP, Magistrates Courts Liverpool. Past National Chairman, British International Doctors Association. Elected GMC Member 1994-2003 (June). Elected Treasurer GMC 1999-2003 (June).

Dr Hasmukh Patel MBBS FRCP(Lon & Ed) FRCPCH DCH, Medical

Consultant Paediatrician, Dartford, Kent. President of Northwest Kent Postgraduate Medical Association, Dartford. Fellow of Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh and Child Health. Member of Medical Protection Society. National Clinical Assessment Service Assessor. Previously: Associate Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, South Thames Region; Chair of South Thames Paediatric Specialty Committee; GMC Performance Assesor.

Mr William Payne

Former Miner; N.A.C.O.D.S. Branch Secretary & Area Trustee; Justice of the Peace; School Governor. Currently: Lay Member Employment Tribunals (Sheffield); Self-employed Businessman; Member of Labour Party.

Sir James Perowne KBE

Retired Admiral - Chairman Midlands and Eastern Region Consumer Council for Water. Member Min of Justice. Judiciary Review Board. President of Royal Navy Benevolent Society for Officers. President of Association of Royal Navy Officers. President Submariner's Association, Chairman James Caird Society, Trustee British Forces Foundation.

Dr Malcolm Phillips MD FRCP, Medical

Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London. Member: British Medical Association. Member: Medical Defence Union. Council member West London Medico-Chirurgical Society (President 2005-6). Medical Adviser Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity. Professional Adviser Health Service Ombudsman's Office. Practice: Consultant Physician & Nephrologist Clementine Churchill Hospital, Harrow. Consultant Physician & Nephrologist (Honorary) Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Dr Peter Phillips MBChB DCH DRCOG MRCGP, Medical

General Practice. Primary Care. Principal GP, Giffords Medical Practice (Melksham). Exec member, Wiltshire LMC. Member: Royal College of GPs, BMA. Senior RMO RHT/Northern Racing. Member of the MDU.

The Very Rev John Philpott Univ Lond Kings College: BD &AKC. Univ of Kent at Canterbury: MA (Applied Theology Medical Ethics). Lay

Parish Priest (Retired but active). Chairman of Governors, Dover Grammar School for Girls & Guston Church of England Primary School (Dover). Member of Rotary. Old Pharosian. Pianist & Organist.

Mrs Sarah Pond MA, Lay

Board Member, London Travel Watch (2007- ). Trustee, Hillingdon Carers (voluntary organisation affiliated to Princess Royal Trust). Member: Patient Link (patient participation group, Harefield Health Centre). Former Chair, Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (2000 – 2006).

Mr Andrew Popat CBE LLB (Lond) LLM (California) Barrister Crown Court Recorder, Lay

Crown Court Recorder. Part-time Judge. Barrister. Chair hearings of Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel. Chairman, PCC. Member, General Osteopathic Council.

Dr S A Qureshi BSc MB BS DLORCS, Medical

GP/ENT Surgery specialist. Refugee GP Tutor, London Deanery. GP Appraiser, Ealing PCT. Master Freemason. Diplomat, Royal College of Surgeons (London). Chairman, Southall Primary Care Commissioning Group. Member, Primary Care Commissioning Group, Ealing PCT. Member, Local Commissioning (PbC) Steering Group, Ealing PCT.

Dr Peter Rabey MBChB, FRCA, Medical

Assistant Medical Director, University Hospitals of Leicester. Fellow of Royal College of Anasthetists. Medical Protection Society (Member). Vascular Anaesthetists Society of Great Britain & Ireland (Member). Governor Frisby Church of England (controlled) Primary School.

Dr Bhogi Rao MB BS FRCGP DFFP, Medical

Principal general practitioner Solway Health Services Workington in Cumbria - awarded QPA RCGP; Fellow of Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine; Trainer West Cumbria Vocational Training Scheme; Educational Committee Member of Cumbria Faculty of RCGP - GP Assessor Quality and outcomes framework Cumbria PCT; Member of Performance Review Quintet Cumbria PCT.

Mr Anthony Robert Rawsthorne MA, Lay

Former Senior Clerk, House of Lords. Former Commissioner, HM Customs & Excise.

Mrs Linda Read BA (Hons), Lay

Chairman of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Panels. Member of Disciplinary Panel, Architect's Registration Board. External Assessor, Healthcare Commission. Lay Reviewer of Invited Review Mechanism, Royal College of Surgeons Foundation Member, Papworth Hospital. Chairman of the Consumers Form at the Royal College of Gynaecologists. Ex-Vice-Chairman of Mental Health Charity.

Mr Andrew Reid LLB JP, Lay

Director, Pecksniff's Ltd. Member: Prescription Medicine Code of Practice Authority Appeal Board. Justice of the Peace. Member, Magistrates' Association Executive Committee, West Sussex Branch. Formerly: Criminal Defence Barrister; British Council Country Director, Taiwan; CEO Powco, Vietnam.

Dr Jean Ann Rennie MB ChB, Medical

Retired General Practitioner. Member BMA, Medical Womens Federation, MDDUS. Fellow Royal Society of Medicine. Vice-Chair and Trustee Society for Companion Animal Studies.

Dr Clive Richards MB ChB (Bristol) FRCGP FFPH, Medical

Independent Public Health Consultant, East Midlands region. (Previously Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Nottingham). Member: Medical Protection Society; Nottingham Medico Chirurgical Society; British Medical Association. Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Also member, Nottingham Hospitals Ethics of Clinical Practice Committee and member, Ethics Group of the National DNA Database.

Dr Andrew Riley MBChB MRCGP DRCOG FFPHM Medical

Public Health Medicine. Director of Public Health & Exec Director, Borders NHS Board. Principal GP (5 years). Sub-specialty, Communicable Disease Control & Environmental Health. MRCGP, Fellow of Faculty of Public Health.

Dr Keith Rix BMedBiol, Mphil, MD, Cbiol, MIBiol, MAE, FEWI, FRCPsych, Medical

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Cygnet Hospital, Wyke. Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist, HM Prison, Leeds. Past President, Leeds & West Riding Medicolegal Society, Fellow of The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Recently reserve, and past, Examiner and Observer, MRCPsych Exams. Professional (Subscription) Membership of: Royal Society of Medicine. Professional Memberships (by qualification or examination): a. Academy of Experts; b. Expert Witness Institute; c. Institute of Biology. Member MDDUS. Practising Anglican.

Dr Iain Robertson OBE DL BSc MD FRCOG, Medical

Consultant Gynaecologist, Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Member of BMA and MDU. Commander of St John Lancashire, Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire, Rotarian.

Dr Christopher John Robinson CBE  PhD

Retired Senior Lecturer in Physiology. Member of Postgraduate Training Board of Royal College of General Practitioners. Member Royal College of General Practitioners Assessment Committee. Chairman of MRCGP Appeals Panel.

Mrs Susanne Roff BA (Hons) MA, Lay

Medical Sociology. War Pensions Agency witness. Lay member, Unrelated Live Transplant Regulatory Authority. Scottish Lay Member: Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB). Member: Tayside Local Research Ethics Committee. Lay member, Scottish Faculty of Advocates Complaints Committee.

Mr Martin Ryder BA, Lay

Lay Member: Residential Property Tribunal Service; Chairman, Fitness to Practise Panel - Health Professions Council; Appeals Panel - Post Graduate Medical Education & Training Board.

Mr Shanti Sagar MB BS FRCS (Ed) FRCS, Medical

Surgeon/Gastrointestinal. Chairman of the Wirral Multicultural Organisation. Past Chairman British International Doctors Association (Wirral Division). Past member of Surgical Section of British Society of Gastroenterology. Clinical Lecturer University of Liverpool. Consultant Surgeon, Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust. Consultant Surgeon, BUPA Murrayfield Hospital. Chair of the Wirral Asian Association.

Dr Ash Samanta MD FRCP, Medical

Rheumatology. Consultant Rheumatologist. Lead clinician, clinical governance. University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Justice of the Peace.

Mr Peter Samuel FRCSE, Medical

Consultant ENT Surgeon. Full-time NHS. Fellow Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Member of Royal Society of Medicine. President, North of England ENT Society (2006-2008). Clinical Director 2000-2004.

Ms Evis Samupfonda, LLB Hons, Lay

Lawyer; Chairman : Residential Property Tribunal Service; Merton & Sutton Mediation Management Committee. Director - Mediation Plus. Mediator.

Dr Ochuko Maurice Sanomi MBBS FRCS MRCGP DFFP PgDL Pg CERT TPC, Medical

Member Royal College of General Practitioners. Fellow Royal College of Surgeons (Ed). Member - Local Medical Committee. Member Local Research and Ethics Committee. Medical Defence Union Member. Student Member of Law Society of Great Britain. GP Tutor - London Deanery. Quality and Outcomes Framework assessor - Havering PCT. GP appraiser Havering PCT.

Dr Sameer Sarkar MD LLM, Medical

Member, The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member, Ethics Committee, The Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member, Medical Protection Society. Member, Ethics Group, National DNA Database (MDNAD). Partner, Postgraduate Medical Education & Training Board (PMETB). Consultant Psychiatrist, in full-time private practice.

Dr Theo Schofield OBE, FRCP, FRCGP, Medical

General Practitioner, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, Retired April 2007. OBE, FRCP (London), FRCGP. Past Lecturer in General Practice, University of Oxford, and Council Member and Chair of the Quality Network, Royal College of General Practitioners. Trustee, Education for Health, and Age Concern, Shipston on Stour.

Dr Kenneth Scott MD FRCPath, Medical

Rtd. Consultant Pathologist: a. Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust; b. HM Coroners, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Staffordshire, Shropshire. Lately Chief Executive Clinical Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd. Fellow Royal College of Pathologists. Member : Association of Clinical Pathologists (past President)

Mr Ian M Semmons MBA, Lay

Director, North Norfolk Railway. Chairman: Action on Pain (Reg Charity: 1088789). Chairman: National Patients Network. Appeals Board Member - Corgi - Gas Safety Regulator. Steering Committee: Nevropathic Pain Network.

Dr Dare Seriki MBChB (Leeds) MRCP FRCR, Medical

Interventional Radiology. Specialty: Radiology. Member: Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Royal College of Radiologists, Radiological Society of North America, Cardiovascular & Interventional Radiologists. Interests: Manchester United Fan, Chess, Computers & Travel.

Dr Michael G Sheldon MB BS FRCGP MICGP BA Dip Theol, Medical

GP (urban, previously rural). Appraiser. Medical member: FHSAA (Family Health Services Appeals Authority). Fellow of the Royal College of GPs. Chairman of The Whole-Person-Health Trust (Registered Charity No: 1098671). Member of Church of England Deanery Synod, Tower Hamlets, London.

Mrs Elisabeth Shend'ge DipCOT, Lay

Justice of the Peace, Brent Bench; Disability Qualified Panel Member, The Appeals Service; Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Professional Conduct Panel. Formerly: State Registered Occupational Therapist, Manager in Social Services; Member, College of Occupational Therapy’s Ethics Committee; Member, Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board; Member of various NHS Disciplinary Committees; Conciliator and Trainer for NHS complaints; Member, Special Needs Committee of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Mrs Ann Shirley BSc (Hons) PGCE, Lay

Lay Member - Employment Tribunal Service. Chartered FCIPD. Member Standards Committee, North Norfolk District Council.

Dr Fiona Sim BSc (Hon) MB BS MSC LLM FFPHM FRCP, Medical

Public Health Medicine. Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL. Editor 'Public Health'. GP. Public Health Specialist. Professional Bodies: FFPH, FRCP, FRIPH. Trustee, Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPH). Voluntary Sector: Member: Advisory Council, Jewish Association for the Mentally Ill (JAMI). Company Director: Public Health Register (UK Voluntary Register for Public Health Specialists).

Mr Arnold Simanowitz Dip.Law (SA) Solicitor, Lay

Solicitor, former Chief Executive of Action for Victims of Medical Accidents (now Action Against Medical Accidents), former Chair of Croydon Community Relations Council, non-Executive Director, National Patient Safety Agency, Commissioner, Commission for Patient and Public involvement in Health.

Dr David M Sinclair BSc MBChB MRCGP DRCOG, Medical

General Medical Practice. Member: BMA, RCGP. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bute Medical School, Saint Andrews University. Previously: GP Trainer, Member of BMA Boards of Science & of Medical Education & of Scottish Council BMA.

Dr Ann Smalldridge BMedSci BM BS FRCGP, Medical

GP in Salford and director of Salford Health Matters CIC. GP Tutor at Reache North West - Education Centre for Refugee Health Professionals. Member of BMA and RCGP (Fellow). GP with specialist interest in sexual health for Salford PCT.

Mr Desmond G Smith LLM, Lay

Formerly: Director/Manager – Business Enterprise and Training Centre; Assistant County Clerk, Chief Executive – Race Equality Council and Youth and Community Adviser; Non-Executive Director CHS Trust, Board Member – South Yorkshire Probation Service and Board of Vistor.

Currently: Lay member – Employment Appeal Tribunal, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel (Lay Chair); Magistrate (Sheffield) Chair of Youth Panel and chairing Adult Courts; Chairman SADACCA; Management Consultant – Equal Opportunities, Diversity Mentor and Mediator. Member – Chartered Institute of Management.

Dr Michael Smith MBChB MPhil FRCP(E) FRCPCH, Medical

Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Fellow of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. M.Phil. Medical Law and Ethics, Present posts – Medical Advisor JCJ Locums, Previous posts – Clinical Director, Child Health, Bradford Hospitals (1990-93); Medical Director, (full time), Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Oct 1993 – June 2004); Associate Medical Director, Consultant Contract Implementation Team 9April 2004 – March 2005); Medical Advisor, Consultant Contract Benefits Realisation Team (April 2005 – May 2006); Regional Clinical Director NHS Professionals (April 2004 – April 2005); Medical Advisor, South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority (December 2004 – October 2005).

Ms Fiona Sommerville RGN, RM, MA(Psych), MSc (Health Psych), Lay

Independent Midwifery Consultant. Midwifery Associate, Healthcare Risk Resources International/Capita. Expert Advisor - Complaints, Healthcare Commission. Clinical Governance Reviewer and Investigator, Healthcare Commission. Lay Associate, General Medical Council. Lay Member, British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy. Magistrate.

Mr Ian Spafford LLB (Hons) Newc: LLM: Solicitor, Lay

Head of Community Services and Litigation, Leeds City Council; Member of Law Society; Branch Secretary of the Yorkshire and the Humber Branch and Director/NEC. Member of Solicitors in Local Government Ltd; Trustee/Director of After Adoption (Yorkshire); Director of LGG Ltd.

Dr Dharmu Paul Srinivasan MBBS DPM FRCPsych, Medical

Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist. Currently not in active clinical practice. Previous posts include the (then) Foundation NHS Trust, Stafford and the Ministry of Defence (RAF College, Cranwell and MOD, Donnington). Past Chairman of the Indian Christian Organisation, Midlands. Currently, Medical Member of First–tier Tribunal (War Pensions & Armed Forces Compensation).

Dr Belinda Stanley BM FRCP, Medical

Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine. Chair, Cumbria and Lancashire Research Ethics Committee A. Trustee Eden Valley Hospice. Professional Bodies: British Association of Medical Managers, BMA, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, Member MDU, Royal Society of Medicine, Royal College of Physicians.

Ms Susan Steel BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, Lay

Currently Independent Consultant. Formerly, Deputy Chief Inspector/HM Magistrates Court Service. Previous experience in NHS Training & Development. Member of the Labour Party.

Dr Andrew Peter Stewart MB BS FRCGP DRCOG FPA Cert, Medical

Full-time Principal in General Practice. Interests: General Practice medicine, supporting stressed and sick doctors through the Local Medical Committee and the Devon & Cornwall GP Advisory Service. Member: Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Medical Committee, Assoc of Broadcasting Doctors. Medical Advisor, Devon & Cornwall General Practitioners Advisory Service. Fellow (since Nov 2004): Royal College of General Practitioners also now appointed this month (May 2005). Co-ordinator for Occupational Health for Primary Care, Cornwall. Also Board Member, Tamar Faculty, Royal College of GP's. Member: British Medical Association.

Mrs Linda Stone OBE JP, B.Pharm, FRPharmS, Lay

Fellow, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of G.B. Lay Privy Council Appointee General Chiropractic Council. Chairman GCC Education Committee, Professional Conduct Committee. Accreditation team Leader RPSGB. Chairman, British Sjogren's Syndrome Association. Independent Member, Prescription Medicine Code of Practice Authority Appeal Board. Pharmacist member RPSGB Investigating Committee. Lay member Taxation Disciplinary Board Investigation Committee. Lay Vice Chairman Bar Standards Board Qualifications Committee. PMETB lay partner. West Midlands Police Authority Complaints Panellist. Trustee director RPSGB Staff Pension Fund.

Professor Nigel Clement Halley Stott CBE FRCGP BSC (Hons) MBChB FRCP FMed Sci, Medical

General Practice. Research, Medical Education, Medical Regulation. Emeritus Professor of General Practice, University of Wales. Chairman of Trial Steering Committees in Oxford & Cambridge Universities. Research Consultancy, University of Cardiff. Member: BMA. Governing Body of Church in Wales. Fellow: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Academy of Medical Sciences, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Patrick Strong FRCR, Medical

a. Consultant radiologist : at Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust;Beaumont (private) Hospital, Bolton. Partner in 'Bolton Radiology' (private radiology practice). b. Member of: British Institute of Radiology, British Society of Skeletal Radiology, British Medical Ultrasound Society, British Medical Association, British Nuclear Medicine Society, Bolton Medical Society, Council of Bolton Medical Institute. c. Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists.

Mrs Sandra Sturdy BSc/Physiotherapist, Lay Member

Physiotherapist (with Bobath Training): Partner in farm businesses. Former Chairman of Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust, Mental Health Act Manager, District Councillor, Healthcare Assistant, President of Relate(Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch)

Dr Heather Suckling FRCGP, Medical

Life Member of the Medical Protection Society. Life Member of the Association of Course Organisers. Member of: The Balint Society. Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. General Secretary of the International Balint Federation. Part-time Tutor in Professional Development to Medical students at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. Leader of a Balint Group for Medical Students. Chair of the Committee of the Congregation of Newington Green Unitarian Church, London.

Mr Neil C M Sykes JP BSc, Lay

Magistrate. Member of Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Sheffield. Deputy Chair Consumer Council for Water Northern Region. Independent member of Rotherham MBC Standards Committee.Vice-Chair North Sheffield NHS Research Ethics Committee. From March 2009- lay member of the Fitness to Practise panels of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Dr Ali S Taha MD (Glasgow) PhD (Glasgow) FRCP (Glasgow); FRCP (Edinburgh)

Current post/s or professional background and interests: Former Service/Clinical Director in General Medicine and Allied Specialities. Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow. Fellow & Examiner: Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Member of the Scottish Society for Experimental Medicine. Member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. International Member of the American Gastroenterological Association. Member of the British Medical Association. Member of the Medical Protection Society. Research Partnership with the Medical Research Council Centre for Reproductive Biology, Edinburgh. Clinical /Basic Medical Research and Audit in General Medicine & Gastroenterology. Committees: Medical Liaison Group, co-ordinating policies between primary and secondary care. Research & Development Committee. Gastro-duodenal section of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

Mr David Taylor MCIPD.JD

Non-Ex Director and Deputy Chairman of Vale of Glamorgan Health Board. Chairman of the Clinical Governance Committee. Magistrate and Chairman of the Vale of Glamorgan Bench. Chairman of the Penarth Youth Project, a Charity providing an information and advisory service for young people aged 11-25. Retired Head of Personnel.

Mrs Helena Taylor JP BA MAC

Former BBC Television Executive Producer; Personal Development and Executive Coach; Magistrate; Member of the Association for Coaching; Coach/Mentor - Open University; Freelance Broadcaster; Member of local Church Council. Member of West Midlands Probation Board.

Ms Elana Tessler Bachelor of Social Work

Independent Member, Parole Board for England and Wales. Former Senior Probation Officer, National Probation Service. Reserve Independent Member, Standards Committee, Weymouth & Portland Borough Council.

Dr Nagarajah Thevamanoharan MB BS MRCGP LMSSA DFFP, Medical

General Practitioner. Member of the RCGP, Member of the BMA, Medical Member - Appeals Tribunal Panel (Social Security), GP Appraiser-Wales, Member of the Statutory Committee (Health) - The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Peer Reviewer- Healthcare Inspectorate of Wales.

Mr Roger Thompson MA Diploma Social Work, Lay

Social Services Management. Vol Org Management. Member, Probation Board. Chair, Area Child Protection Committee. Non-Exec Director, Selby & York PCT. Chair of York & District. MIND.

Mr Guy Thorburn MB BS BMedSci MRCS (Eng) MA, Medical

Specialist Registrar in Plastic Surgery, Pan Thames Rotation: Wrexham Park Hospital. MA (Health Care Ethics & Law) - University of Manchester. Member: Royal College of Surgeons of England, BMA, Medical Protection Society.

Mrs Alison Thorne SRN, Lay

Member, Advisory Board, Faculty of General Dental Practitioners. Member, Professions Complementary to Dentistry Board, Faculty of General Dental Practitioners. Previously: Non-Executive Director, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust; Non-Executive Director, Broadmoor Hospital Authority; Member, Surrey Police Authority; Chairman, City Women's Network.

Mrs Janice Torbet BA (Hons) (English); Dip.Ed; Post Graduate Certificate in Education; Masters (MBA) in Business Admin, Lay

Associate Director for Workforce - NHS Tayside; Lay Member of Employment Tribunals (Scotland); Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Mr Brendan Treanor B.Ed (Hons), Lay

Head Teacher - retired.

Mrs Janice Turner BA (Hons) , Lay

Lay Member, Surrey Research Ethics Committee. Owner of a Training and Consultancy Company providing training on research ethics to NHS organisations and pharmaceutical companies. Honorary Treasurer Dorking Group Amnesty Internatiional. Lay Assessor, QOF, Surrey PCT. Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Patient Advocate for the Diabetes Research Network. Membership of working groups with National Research Ethics Service

Dr Abhay Vaidya MD FRCA, Medical

Consultant Anaesthetist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Ex College Tutor, Royal College of Anaesthetists. Member AAGBI; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; examiner, ICMRCS; Medical Member of PMETB Appeal Panel.

Ms Nalini Singh Varma BA (Hons) Sociology CQSW, Lay

Social work. Voluntary sector. Senior management. Lay member of CICAP. Former Board member, Children & Families Court Advisory Service (CAFCASS). Trustee, Comic Relief.

Dr Francis Vaz MBBS FRCP(Lond), FRCP (Edin), Medical

Consultant Physician, Honorary Associate Professor, Warwick Medical School; Adviser Health Care Commission. Examiner, Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, Associate Medical Director South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust. Former Member, Local Research & Ethics Committee. Former adviser National Clinical Assessment Service

Dr Margaret Vickers PhD, Lay

Associate Director, Hertfordshire Primary Care Research Network; Research Director, Clinical Trials Coordinating Centre, University of Hertfordshire; Chair, Primary Care Research Management and Governance Collaborative, Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust

Professor Sobhan Vinjamuri MD MSc FRCP, Medical

Consultant in Nuclear Medicine, Royal Liverpool University Hospital; Honorary Professor, Liverpool John Moores University; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London; Member, Appeals Panels of PMETB; Council Member, British Nuclear Medicine Society (2003-2006); Member of Specialty Advisory Committee - Nuclear Medicine of Royal College of Physicians (05-); Member, Liverpool Research Ethics Committee; Member, Accreditation Panels for Research Ethics Committees; Medical Advisor (Complaints) , Healthcare Commission.

Mr John Walsh BA (Hons) History and Politics. Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Lay

Human Resources Consultant. Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Lay Member, Employment Tribunals. Vice Chair of Governors, St Thomas Becket School, London SE25.

Dr Helen Walters MBChB MRCGP DRCOG MFPH Dip Health Management MSc PH, Medical

Public Health in PCT. Specialist Registrar in Public Health Medicine. Member: BMA, MPS, Liberal Democrat Party. Member of Faculty of Public Health Medicine. Governor of Weyford Infant School, Bordon. District Councillor on East Hants District Council.

Dr Kevin Walters MA PhD FCIS FCIPD Barrister, Lay

Part-time Immigration AJudge. Part-time Legal Chairman, Appeals Service.

Dr John Watson BA FRCP FFPHM, Medical

Director of Public Health, Northern Health & S S Board; Member BMA; Member MDU; Fellow Faculty of Public Health; Fellow Royal College of Physicians (London); Member Appeals Panel PMETB; Member Finance & Audit Cttee. Faculty of Public Health; Member Public Health. Medicine Consultative Cttee. (BMA & FPH); Fellow Ulster Medical Society; Chairman Northern Investing for Health Partnership. Member Dunadry Residents Association.

Dr Stephen Webster GP MA MD FRCP, Medical

Retired NHS Hospital Consultant. Retired Consultant Geriatrician & General Physician. Member British Geriatrics Soc. Member BMA. Benefit Appeals Service. President, Cambridge Age Concern. Chairman, Campaign Tackling Acquired Deafness. Trustee, Council & Care. Regional Elected Member, Cruse Bereavement Care (E England). Independent Member of Police Misconduct Panels.

Mr Christopher Wheeler

Previously Chief Probation Officer, Wiltshire Probation Service. Lay member for the Mental Health Review Tribunal. Former member of The Parole Board for England and Wales.

Mrs Kathryn Whitehill Diploma Occupational Therapy, BA (Hons) Health Studies. Master of Public Health, Cert. Health Service Management, Lay

Occupational Therapist in NHS for 20 years. Also Senior Manager in Public Health, Health Authorities and Acute Hospital Trusts. Currently final academic stage of barrister training.

Professor J M A Whitehouse MA MD FRCP FRCP(Ed) FRCR FMed Sci, Medical

Professor of Medical Oncology (Emeritus), Imperial College Past: Vice Principal, Imperial College School of Medicine; Dean of Charing Cross & Westminster School of Medicine; Director, Wessex Regional Medical Oncology Unit, Southampton. Governor: Canford School, Dorset; St Swithun's School, Winchester; City of London School.

Mrs Kay Elizabeth Whittle BA (Hons) Diploma in Social Work, Lay

Retired. Director of Social Services, Cumbria County Council (1991-1998). Deputy Director Social Services, Cleveland CC (1989-1991). Homicide Inquiry Team Member. General Dental Council, Fitness to Practise Panellist. Governor and Director, The Retreat Hospital, York. Member: St John Council Cumbria.

Dr Fay Wilson MB ChB FRCGP DCH DRCOG, Medical

General Practice. Clinical interest- diabetes. Organisational interests- out of hours urgent care, practice organisation, primary care development, poorly performing doctors & regulations. NHS GP (part-time). Medical Director, Birmingham & District GP Emergency Rooms Ltd (BADGER). Medical Secretary, Londonwide LMCS. Member, BMA GP Committee. Member: BMA UK Council.

Dr Joseph Wilton MB BS DCH DRCOG MRCGP, Medical

Member: RCGP.

Mr Bob Winter CQSW  DPA

Life member, Association of Directors of Social Work. Member, Labour Party. Elected member, Glasgow City Council.

Mr Alan Wood MB BS LRCP MRCS FRCS, Medical

Cardiothoracic Surgery. Adult Cardiac & Pulmonary Medicine. Lead Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon (Barts & London NHS Trust). Cardiac & Pulmonary Surgery. Particularly interested in audit & appraisal.

Dr Jane Diana Dudley Wood MB BS FRCP (Glas, Lond)

Retired Consultant Geriatrician.   Fellow: Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, Royal College of Physicians of London. Elected member of Council 1994-2003. Member of Health Committee 1994-2003, latterly Chairman. Member:  Labour Party.

Dr J Keith Wood MB ChB  FRCP  FRCPE  FRCPath

Medical Associate.  Consultant Haematologist, BUPA Hospital, Leicester.  Member of Court at the University of Leicester. Formerly Consultant Haematologist, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Leicester Warwick Medical School.  Council Member, Leicester Medical Society (previously Chairman and President).

Mrs Judith Sonia May Worthington BSc Special Hons Chemistry. Postgraduate Diploma- Child Protection, Lay

Vice Chair, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. Chair, Leicester Warwick Medical Schools Fitness to Practice Committee. Lay member, Healthcare Commission Investigation and Clinical Governance review teams. Member of Investigations Committee, General Osteopathic Council. Lay Member of the General Chiropractic Council. Magistrate and a court chair, Leicestershire family proceedings panel. Member PMETB Appeals Panel.

Mr Peter R Worobec

Retired Assistant Chief Constable - Suffolk Constabulary. Independent Chair of Suffolk Safeguarding Children Board. Chair of Governors, East Bergholt High School, Suffolk.

Dr Peter Wright MB ChB, FRCA, Dip Medical Acupuncture (BMAS) MSc, Medical

Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine, Southern Health and Social Care Trust (NI). Consultant member Appeal Tribunals Service (Northern Ireland). Consultant advisor to PACE (Pain Collaboration & Exchange) CCA. Partner PMETB, medical, part-time. Member of: a. British Medical Association, b. British Pain Society; c. Royal College of Anaesthetists d. Medical Defence Union; e. Northern Ireland Pain Society.

Mr Brian Yates MA MSc FRSA Eur. Ing., Lay

Chairman, Consumers' Association. Member: Immigration Appeal Tribunal. Member: Genetics and Insurance Committee, Department of Health. Chartered Materials Engineer.

Dr Ronald Zeegen OBE MB BS MRCS DRCOG FRCP, Medical

Honorary Consultant Physician and Gastro-enterologist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital (London). Medical Adviser to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Formerly: Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine. Honorary Physician and Gastro-enterologist to the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals and the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Honorary Physician to the Newspaper Press Fund. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Fellow in Gastro-enterology to the European Union of Medical Specialists. Council Member of the GMC 1999-2003. Freemason. Member of the Garrick Club, Medical Society of London, Harverian Society, Hunterian Society, Chelsea Clinical Society, Fountain Club and the British Academy of Gastronomes.