GMC announces working group to lead medical manslaughter review

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Working group members:

• Dame Clare Marx CBE is practising orthopaedic surgeon. She is the Chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and is the former president of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She is an Associate Medical Director for appraisal and revalidation.
• Dr Clare Gerada MBE is the Medical Director of the Practitioner Health Programme and an elected member of the BMA Council. She has held a number of local and national leadership positions, including Director of Primary Care for the National Clinical Governance Team, Senior Medical Advisor to the Department of Health.
• Leslie Hamilton was a cardiac surgeon, spending 16 years as a consultant paediatric surgeon. He now works as a medical expert in clinical negligence cases and a specialist advisor at the Care Quality Commission. He was the president of the North of England Medico-legal Society from 2015-17. Leslie was also a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons and was president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery from 2008 – 2010.
• Professor Pali Hungin OBE is a professor of Primary Care and General Practice and was previously the Dean of Medicine at Durham University, and BMA president in 2016. Pali was responsible for initiating the research support networking movement in the UK, initially in primary care, and led the NHS Research and Development Forum (England).
• Bertie Leigh areas of specialism are clinical negligence, professional regulation and training, NHS administration and employment law. Bertie is the Non-Executive Director of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Chair of the Clinical Disputes Forum. He is also an advisor to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, as well as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists.
• Liz McAnulty began her career as a nurse, then a midwife in clinical practice and education and management. Liz then worked in professional regulation, firstly at the Nursing and Midwifery Council. In addition, Liz studied law and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2000. On her retirement, Liz was appointed as a Trustee of the Patients Association and was elected Chair in 2016. She stepped down from this role in February 2018.
• Vivienne Parry will be Lay Advisor for the working group. Ms Parry is a scientist by training, hosts medical programmes for BBC Radio 4 and is head of Head of Engagement at Genomics England where she leads a project to identify how best to use genomics in healthcare.
• Selva Ramasamy Queen’s Counsel, who will be a Legal Advisor on the working group, has more than 20 years’ experience in regulatory and criminal law, with a particular focus on cases involving doctors and other healthcare professionals.  He is often involved in the most serious types of regulatory cases where there is concurrent investigation by the police and regulators.
• Professor Iqbal Singh OBE is an experienced clinician specialising in care of the elderly, a pioneer in ethnic health and diversity, and has board level GMC and Healthcare Commission service. He has a track record of regulatory, inspection, education and patient safety experience. Iqbal was the chair of the Expert Reference Group on Patient Safety at the Healthcare Commission (later becoming the Care Quality Commission).
• Dr Jude Tweedie is a cardiology trainee originally based in Belfast. She has extensive experience in as a trainee in leadership roles including as a Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management National Medical Director Fellow, and a Royal College of Physicians (London) Clinical Fellow. Jude is currently a Research Fellow to the President of the Royal College of Physicians focusing on professionalism, professional identity formation and unprofessional behaviours.
• Iain Wallace is currently the Chair of the Scottish Association of Medical Directors and Medical Director of NHS Lanarkshire. In 2005 Iain became the Associate Medical Director for the Women and Children’s Directorate in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and for a time combined this role with being interim Medical Director of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. Iain is Chair of the Death Certification National Advisory Group and co-Chair of the Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer.

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