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Visitor teams: London deanery

As part of the quality assurance process, deaneries are assessed by teams of visitors.

Below are details about the visitors who visited London during the 2007/8 cycle of visits.

Professor Jacky Hayden

Jacky Hayden is Dean of Postgraduate Medical Studies for the North Western Deanery. Her clinical background is in general practice. She is vice-chair of COPMED, leading the quality improvement agenda and is lead dean for psychiatry and dermatology. She is an associate for the General Medical Council and was a lead visitor for the pilot work on the quality assurance of foundation training. She is a PMETB partner and has led two of the PMETB visits. She has a particular interest in performance in medicine and was the COPMED representative for the NCAS project 'Back on Track'.

Professor Justin Allen

Justin worked as a GP in Countesthorpe, Leicester from 1973 to 2003, and as a GP trainer, course organiser and adviser until 2001, when he was appointed as General Practice Postgraduate Dean, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Post Graduate Deanery until his retirement in 2006. He is a past President of EURACT (European Academy of Teachers in General Practice) and served as Joint Honorary Secretary, Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice (UK Competent Authority for General Practice) until it was replaced in September 2005. Justin is a visiting professor in family medicine to De Montfort University, Leicester. He is currently the Primary Care Adviser for the UK Foundation Programme Office.

Dr Jonathan Beavers

Jonathan graduated from Edinburgh medical school in 2007 and undertook an intercalated BSc (Hons) in Genetics in 2003/4. He is currently working as an FY1 trainee in Glasgow.

During his medical studies Jonathan was involved in a number of aspects of medical education and medical politics, primarily through his work with the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Students Committee (MSC) between 2003 and 2007.

As Joint Deputy Chair of the BMA MSC (with responsibilities for the Welfare subcommittee), Jonathan was heavily involved in work promoting equality and diversity within the medical profession, including work on student fitness to practice, religion within medicine and pregnant students/students with dependents. He also was part of the editorial team responsible for producing ‘Medicine in the 21st Century’, a key document of the MSC outlining the minimum standards expected within undergraduate medical education.

He was elected to Chair the annual BMA MSC Conference,’ Producing Professionals’, in 2006, and has had prior involvement with organisations such as the GMC, the Medical Council on Alcohol and the Council of Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS).
He was part of the team responsible for the production of the joint BMA/CHMS Charter, a national charter outlining the responsibilities of students and medical schools in the effective delivery of undergraduate medical education.

Dr Leigh Bissett

Leigh Bissett is currently a foundation doctor in the East of England deanery. Leigh is a former Chair of both the BMA Medical Students Committee and the Union of the University of East Anglia Students Council and has developed an interest in Quality Assurance fostered by his involvement with numerous committees and institutions. Through his role with the BMA, Leigh has contributed to a number of key documents including the Medical School Charter and Medicine in the 21st century. He also co-authored and edited The Insiders Guide to UK Medical Schools.

Dr Angela Carragher

Angela M. Carragher is a Consultant Surgeon and Associate Post Graduate Dean in Northern Ireland. She graduated from University College Galway Medical School a constituent college of the National University of Ireland in June 1980 and interned in the International Missionary Training Hospital in Drogheda. After posts in Dublin and Toronto she pursued surgical training in Northern Ireland with an Oncology fellowship in MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas and a breast fellowship in Auckland New Zealand.

Angela was awarded Masters degree in medical education in July 2002 from Queens Belfast. She was appointed to NIMDTA to organise and administer Northern Ireland Foundation Programme in March 2005.

Professor David Croisdale-Appleby

David is active in policy formulation in health and social care. He is Honorary Professor at the Wolfson Research Institute; Honorary Professor at the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Durham and Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Durham Business School. He is also a Member of the University Council and Chairman of Ustinov College and of the Life Sciences Ethical Review Committee

David has had a broad range of health and social care involvement including Chairman of a Hospitals Trust (which includes the National Spinal Injury Centre at Stoke Mandeville); Deputy Chairman of a Mental Health Trust; a Board Member of the NHS Confederation; a Member of the Multi-centre Research Ethics Committee for the South East, and a GMC and PMETB Visitor for Medical Education. He is involved in the regulation of professionals involved in healthcare with the FHSAA and the Health Professions Council, and is Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. He is Chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Programme Development Group for Long-term Sickness and Incapacity.

His passionate interest is social justice, and he is Chairman of Yarrow Housing, a Learning Disability Trust; a Board Member and Audit Chair of Turning Point, the drug and alcohol misuse charity; Chairman of the Radian Group of Housing Associations; a Magistrate; and serves as a specialist Race and Equality Member for the Employment Tribunals Service. He is a Board Member and Chair of Audit for Food From Britain, and National Deputy Chairman of Postwatch. He is a FRSH, FRIPH and FRSA.

Dr Catherine Dickinson

After graduating from Oxford, Catherine trained in cardiology in Yorkshire. Initially a Consultant Cardiologist at Stafford General Hospital she developed links with Keele Medical School and completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Medical Education. After 3 years in Stafford she returned to Leeds as Consultant Cardiologist at the Yorkshire Heart Centre to pursue her interests in nuclear cardiology and medical education.

Previously Royal College Tutor she is now Foundation Training Programme Director for FY1 trainees and responsible for the FY1 Professional Development Education Programme for the West Yorkshire Foundation School. In addition she is a member of the Cardiology Specialist Training Committee, Yorkshire Deanery Foundation Curriculum Development Group and the education group of the Yorkshire Postgraduate School of Medicine.

Dr Kathy Feest

Kathy is the Director of the Severn Foundation School in Bristol and is co-author of the recently published book Today’s Students Tomorrows Doctors: Reflections from the Wards. She has worked in medical education in varying capacities over the years, first writing and producing award winning videos for patients and professionals; then as a Special Lecturer in Medical Education at Bristol University. She completed her PhD in medical education there in 2003.

In her role with the UKFPO team, she chairs the recruitment and selection rules group, in addition to being a member of several of the UKFPO committees.

Dr Jennie Johnston

Jennie Johnston graduated from Edinburgh Medical School in 2004 and is now serving as a Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Whilst at University Jennie became heavily involved in medical politics, curriculum design and post-graduate medical training and following a number of other representative roles, she was elected as a Council Member of the British Medical Association (BMA) and Chairman of the UK Medical Students Committee (2001-2003). Responsibilities within this role included working closely with the Council of Heads of Medical Schools (CHMS); leading the collaboration with the General Medical Council (GMC) on the review of Student Health and Conduct and Tomorrows Doctors and presenting evidence to MPs and cross-party parliamentary select committees for education and finance. Jennie was also appointed to the BMA’s working group on Modernising Medical Careers andworked on a number of professional activity committees including the Board of Medical Education and the BMA’s Medical Ethics Committee.

The 2007/8 cycle will be Jen’s fifth year as a visitor, having contributed to the Quality Assurance of Basic Medical Education visits at Liverpool, RFUCMS, Leicester and Cambridge medical schools and the Quality Assurance of the Foundation Programme visits to the Wales and East of Scotland Deaneries.

Dr Calum Macleod

Dr Calum Macleod qualified from Glasgow University in 1981. After house jobs at Glasgow Royal Infirmary he undertook residency training in paediatrics and a fellowship in paediatric respiratory medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, qualifying in 1987. He worked in Canada until taking up post as Consultant Paediatrician in Antrim Hospital in 1996. He has a Masters degree in Medical Education from Queen’s University Belfast where he is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer. He has been a Foundation Programme Director for three years and was appointed Director of Medical Education for the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in 2007. He is married with one daughter in second year university.

Mrs Elaine Tait

Elaine Tait is currently Chief Executive of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. After a varied career in accounting, marketing and technology transfer Elaine joined the Northern Regional Health Authority in a range of policy and planning roles including the development of the first Patients Charter in the early days of patient and public involvement. Operational responsibility in an acute hospital was then followed by a period supporting clinical audit and quality policy at the Scottish Executive Health Department. Elaine has a broad interest in professional standards and also acts as a lay reporter for the Law Society of Scotland. Elaine lives in rural Perthshire and has two adult daughters.