HfL clinical advisory group
The clinical advisory group informed the development of Healthcare for London. The group’s 32 members acted as ‘clinical champions’. This group has now been disbanded.
Trish Morris-Thompson (Chairperson), Chief Nurse and Professor of Nursing and Midwifery, NHS London
Trish Morris-Thompson was appointed to the post of Chief Nurse of NHS London in October 2006 and leads on the delivery of key policy areas affecting quality and safety of patient services. Trish has overall responsibility for the capital’s 70,000 nurses and midwives.
Trish trained at Whipps Cross Hospital in East London, and qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1982 then as a Registered Midwife in 1986. Trish has a BA (Hons) in Health Studies and Applied Social Sciences (1991), an MBA from Hull University (1993), and in 2007 was awarded a Visiting Professorship by the Faculty of Health and Social Care at London South Bank University.
Trish has extensive experience in healthcare gained through her work in London, the Midlands, and South Australia. Prior to taking up her role at NHS London, Trish was Executive Director of Nursing for the former NE London SHA.
Rodney Burnham, Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Barking, Havering & Redbridge NHS Trust
Rodney has been Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist with Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust since 1981 and more recently, Hon. Consultant and Senior Lecturer at Barts and the London Hospitals Trust and Medical School. A graduate of the Adelaide Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin, he then held posts in Cambridge, an African Mission Hospital, St Marks Hospital, London and Nottingham University.
Rodney’s research has largely been clinical, focusing on Crohn’s Disease, upper GI bleeding, oesophageal problems and nutrition. Other responsibilities have included hospital management as Clinical Director, Chairmanship of the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee, London Deanery Specialty Training Committees and the Christian Medical Fellowship. He was one of the initiators of the first gastroenterology training course for nurses. He has been Director of the Medical Workforce Unit of the RCP and remains a member of the RCP Nutrition Committee as well as the SAC in Gastroenterology. He is President of the European Board of Gastroenterology.
As the first RCP Registrar from a district general hospital, he continues with clinical work and thus remains in close touch with those in the front line of acute medical care. He is secretary to the College Council, and is responsible for the College’s regional network and relationships with 26 specialist societies. He represents the College on the Pandemic Influenza Clinical Advisory Group and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Payment by Results Clinical Advisory Panel. He leads for the College on integrated care with the RCGP and RCPCH.
Denise Chaffer, Director of Nursing, Mayday University Hospital
Denise qualified as a registered nurse in 1981 and as a midwife in 1987. She has held various clinical roles, including surgical, gynaecological, midwifery and community nursing. She has worked as a lecturer in higher education, held the role of National Education advisor for the Royal College of Nursing, and was Director of Nursing Education and Deputy Director of Nursing at St George’s. For the last five years she was Director of Nursing at Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust before taking up her post at Mayday in October 2007.
During the last 18 months, Denise has been a clinical member of the South East Coast Health Authority ‘Fit for the Future’ programme board, which has been overseeing the public consultation on reconfiguration of acute trusts in West Sussex, East Sussex, Surrey and Brighton and Hove. Denise was also a member of the Clinical Reference Advisory group for West Sussex, which focused on areas such as maternity, paediatrics, A&E, urgent care, critical care and surgery.
Denise chaired the Midwifery Society at the Royal College of Nursing for a number of years and represented the RCN at the International Confederation for Midwives in Oslo and Manila. She conducted an audit of the rise in Caesarean section rates which was published and presented in Manila. Denise has given evidence to a government select committee on medical professionalism and is a member of the Brighton (West) Ethics Committee.
Celia Ingham Clark, Consultant General Surgeon and the Medical Director, Whittington Hospital in North Central London
Celia trained in eight London hospitals before her consultant appointment in 1996. She has experience in medical education and medical workforce issues, having been hospital Director of Medical Education and a member of the regional Task Force on hours of work for five years. More recently her focus has been on service development. She has led improvements in surgical efficiency at the Whittington; increased day case rates, emergency day surgery, direct access day surgery, and electronic referrals leading to a reduced non-attendance rate in clinic (before the advent of Choose and Book). She is a member of the North London Cancer Network Board and was previously Colorectal Tumour Board Chair.
Nationally Celia has been one of the national clinical leads for the Cancer Services Collaborative since 2003. This has involved travelling to many cancer networks and centres to learn and share good practice, and feeding this into specialty and Royal College national meetings. Through this role she also contributed to the achievement of cancer waiting times and the recent Cancer Reform Strategy. Celia was a member of the planned care working group that contributed to the Healthcare for London report in 2007. As Medical Director at the Whittington, her primary focus has been on improving the quality of clinical care, both within the Whittington and in broader network developments with primary, secondary and tertiary care providers.
Tom Coffey, General Practitioner, Wandsworth
Tom has been working as a GP in Wandsworth since 1994. He started as a chemical engineer then transferred to medicine training at Charing Cross and Westminster medical school. He is a GP Partner at Brocklebank Group Practice. The Practice is across two sites for 20,000 patients and is made up of six partners, nine salaried GPs, one nurse practitioner and eleven nurses. The practice provides onsite physio, midwifery, dentistry, chiropody, speech therapy, audiology, minor surgery, phlebotomy, ecg service, district and school nurses, psychology and psychiatry.
Tom works in accident and emergency at Charing Cross Hospital every Thursday as a clinical assistant. He has been PEC chair at Wandsworth PCT since 2002 and is also chair of New Health Network, a policy think tank for clinicians and managers.
Deborah Colvin, General Practitioner, Hackney
After training as a doctor at Kings College Hospital Medical School and completing her GP training in Oxford, Deborah started work at her practice in 1986 in Hackney and as a lecturer in the Department of General Practice at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. Her work at the practice involved a substantial amount of maternity care including intrapartum care in hospital and at home until the end of the 1990s. Her practice also did all their own out-of-hours cover until an out-of-hours cooperative was set up in Hackney.
Deborah has been a GP trainer in the practice since 1992. In 2002, Deborah and two other doctors at the practice successfully became fellows of the RCGP by assessment. She is an instructing doctor for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care. In 2006, she completed the diploma in dermatology at the Royal London Hospital. Deborah is currently chair of City and Hackney LMC. She has recently been heavily involved with other GPs in Hackney setting up a not-for-profit organisation to assist with practice based commissioning which she sees as an exciting opportunity to expand and modernise general practice. Deborah is also currently studying for a post graduate certificate in inter-professional education.
Tom K J Craig, Professor of Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Tom qualified in medicine at the University of the West Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham. He was the founding director of the research team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals that went on to establish the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and in that role, helped to develop and disseminate models of community care that remain at the heart of mental health services today. He has researched and published on the influence of social deprivation on the onset and course of psychiatric disorders including studies of mental illness in homeless young people and other disadvantaged populations in the inner city.
His clinical activities focus on developing and evaluating community-based psychiatric services and the promotion of these solutions at a national and international level. These programmes have included the development of residential alternatives to the hospital asylum, specialised services for homeless mentally ill people, supported employment and Clubhouse programmes and the Lambeth Early Onset (LEO) services for first episode psychosis. The LEO is now among the most comprehensive of such services in the world and one of only a handful of such approaches to be rigorously evaluated through controlled trials.
Shelley Dolan, Chief Nurse, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Shelley was appointed as Chief Nurse of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. She has been a clinical nurse working in the field of critical care since 1980. Until 1990, she explored the diversity of critical care specialities such as trauma, burns and plastics, coronary care, children’s ITU, neonatal ITU and general ITU in major units across the UK. In 1990, Shelley made a move to the critical care of the cancer patient and held posts including nurse consultant cancer critical care and head of nursing research. She has an MSc in cancer care and advanced practice and a Doctorate in nursing science.
Shelley is an honorary lecturer at Thames Valley University and Module leader at the Royal Marsden School of Nursing & Rehabilitation. She lectures and teaches widely across the UK and in many countries across the world. Her most recent research studies have been in the fields of empowering the cancer patient at home through education and technology, the involvement of the patient in research, follow-up ITU and the early identification of patients with sepsis. Shelley was appointed in 2005 as non executive director and vice chair of the Board of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the Department of Health. She was appointed in 2005 to the board of the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care, and as Chair of the Royal College of Nursing Cancer Nursing Forum. She has published widely with her writing, concentrating in the main on the person with cancer who is acutely or critically ill, clinical leadership and nursing’s influence on cancer and healthcare policy development.
Rob George, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Ealing Hospital
Rob is a consultant in palliative medicine with Ealing PCT and senior lecturer in biomedical ethics at UCL Medical School. He was one of the writing team for the end-of-life care group. Rob trained in chest and general medicine. During his doctorate research in chronic respiratory failure, he became interested in care of the dying. He established and led the Palliative Care Centre at UCLH and Camden and Islington from 1987–2003, which pioneered and developed palliative care based of need and not diagnosis. The Centre won the Palliative Care Beacon Award for London in 2000 for this and its innovations in home care, integrated management, BME work and education. From 2003-2006, he worked in the voluntary sector rebuilding clinical teams in crisis. This has given him experience in all types of palliative care services and settings. He leads the end-of-life strategy group for Ealing and Hounslow and is developing local pilots to model and test the hypothetical system being suggested by Healthcare for London.
Academically, he has a long research history with the Department of Palliative Care and Policy at Kings in service development and evaluation. His interests turned to ethics in the mid 1990s. He has been Hon Senior Lecturer in biomedical ethics at UCL since 2003. He has also been involved in the National Cancer Plan, National CAD Plan and NHS Heart Failure Research Initiative, National Joint Working Parties on non-cancer palliative care, adolescent palliative care and adults with mental health disorders, the NICE Editorial Board on supportive and palliative care and the RCP Working Party on palliative medicine. He has advised government on various matters in end-of-life care and on passages of the Mental Capacity Act, and sits on various ethics committees.
Siobhan Gregory, Director of Governance and Clinical Practice, Ealing and Harrow Community Services
Siobhan qualified as an RGN in 1989 and gained post registration experience in gynaecology and care of the elderly. She moved to London in 1991, specialising in HIV/AIDS and haematology at Hammersmith Hospital. Siobhan moved into the community in 1996 working as a clinical nurse specialist in HIV/AIDS and then in communicable diseases before moving into a lead nurse role with Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority. She also worked part time as the Regional Nurse Prescribing Lead for London.
Siobhan’s current role is Assistant Director of Clinical Practice and Professional Support in Ealing PCT where she has a leadership role with responsibility for leading on service redesign. She line manages the PPI/PALS team as well as a dynamic and proactive team of clinical practice development managers.
Siobhan was instrumental in the introduction of community matrons, led on the development of clinical supervision, non-medical prescribing as well as advising on clinical issues on a daily basis. She is also Joint Protection of Vulnerable Adults Lead and the NHS LIVE Leader.
Jatinder Harchowal, Chief Pharmacist, Ealing Hospital NHS Trust
Jatinder has been Chief Pharmacist in Ealing Hospital NHS Trust since March 2004. Jatinder qualified in 1991, obtained a Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy in 1993, the MSc in Pharmacy Practice in 1996 and a Diploma in Management Studies in 2000.
Jatinder has worked in a number of trusts in London, including Charing Cross Hospital, King’s College Hospital and Barts and the London NHS Trust. He worked as the specialist renal pharmacist for four years and was Associate Director of Pharmacy in King’s College Hospital. Jatinder was the Assistant Director, Clinical Pharmacy Services in Barts and the London and worked for the London Pharmacy Supplementary Prescribing project team, leading on the development of supplementary prescribing for hospital pharmacists across London.
Peter Hutton, Professor of Anaesthesia, University of Birmingham
Following an initial career in mechanical engineering and bioengineering research, Peter qualified in Medicine in 1978. Since 1986 he has been Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Consultant at the University Hospital, Birmingham. From 2000–2003 he was President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and from 2002–2004 was Chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer.
Peter’s research interests at various times have been in anaesthetic pollution, feedback control of anaesthesia, monitoring and patient safety. In postgraduate education, he has been involved in curriculum development, examinations and methods of assessment and is active in developing e-learning methodologies. Over the years he has served on a number of committees and working parties for the Department of Health and the NHS. He has been a member of the General Medical Council, is the Independent Consultant Member of the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Appeal Board and vice-chair (Medical) of the Long-Term Conditions Alliance. In 2007, Peter was appointed by the Home Office to be the Chairman of a new non-departmental public body set up to advise on the ethical aspects of the forensic uses of DNA.
Lesley Johnson, Speech and Language Therapist
Lesley is a registered allied health professional and is a speech and language therapist by background. She has a special clinical interest in child development issues and has worked for a number of years to design healthcare services so that children’s needs are identified and addressed as soon as possible, offering them the fullest chance to develop their skills. She has undertaken re-design work in a wide range of AHP areas in both acute and community settings.
Lesley trained in London and has always worked in North London in a range of PCTs, district generals and specialist centres. She has developed an interest in workforce analysis and evaluation across AHP groups and is part of a national team reviewing the NHS workforce. Lesley has also worked in roles to support undergraduate and post graduate training for clinicians at both City University and UCL.
Donna Kinnair, Director of Commissioning and Nursing, NHS Southwark
Donna Kinnair is a qualified nurse, health visitor and lecturer. She is currently the Director of Commissioning and Nursing at NHS Southwark. In February 2001, Donna was appointed as a nurse/child health assessor on the Victoria Climbie Inquiry under the chairmanship of Lord Laming.
Previous experience includes a variety of roles in the health service, recently as a Strategic Commissioner for Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham Health Authority’s Children’s Services. Donna has managed hospital and community-nursing teams and worked with general practice. She has been a child protection service manager, and is an experienced trainer in medical law and child law. She has played a key role in auditing child protection practice for various social services departments and chaired working groups on several reviews into children’s services. Donna became a Dame of the British Empire in 2008.
Debra Lake, Nurse Consultant in Diabetes, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
Debra has had a varied nursing and midwifery career, which includes clinical research at the University of Liverpool examining ways to prevent early renal disease in Type 1 diabetes. She has gained experience of working in senior positions in four major NHS trusts in London and now works as Nurse Consultant in Diabetes at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
Debra is an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London and has produced education programmes for both staff and patients. Most recently she has led on the planning and implementation of community diabetes services in Kensington and Chelsea PCT to meet the targets set out in the National Service Framework for Diabetes, ensuring seamless care provision and team working. During her career, Debra has worked in primary and secondary care as well the private sector. These experiences have enabled her to develop skills to successfully work across care provider boundaries, leading teamwork and change management.
Andrew Mitchell, Medical Director for NHS London and Clinical Director for Healthcare for London’s children and young people’s project
Dr Mitchell is currently the Medical Director for NHS London and Clinical Director for Healthcare for London’s children and young people’s project. Prior to this, Dr Mitchell was the Consultant General Paediatrician and Associate Medical Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children.
His early years were spent in the Armed Services, during which time he held consultant paediatric posts in this country and overseas. As Joint Service Clinical Director, he was responsible for widely distributed paediatric services and for worldwide intensive care retrieval of sick children both in peace time and from war zones. He remains a civilian adviser to the Armed Services with honorary rank of Air Commodore.
In 1995, he was appointed as consultant paediatrician in Basingstoke and shortly afterwards became Clinical Director and subsequently Divisional Medical Director for Maternity and Children’s services, posts he held for 10 years. He contributed to the development of an integrated service for children with expansion of specialist care into the community and consultant delivered ambulatory services, recognised by the Modernisation Agency as the ‘Total Approach’. Dr Mitchell established the Central South Coast Paediatric Intensive Care Network and chaired through seven years of service development. He has also been Clinical Lead for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Maternity and Children’s Network, worked with the Department of Health on collaborative policy development, and both the MA and CSIP as a national clinical network lead offering advice to SHAs and PCTs on network development. He has undertaken reviews with OPM, engaging in public consultation, and through the MA acted as clinical adviser to trusts on reconfiguration issues. He is currently undertaking an MSc in strategic management.
Fionna Moore, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Fionna is an experienced Consultant in Emergency Medicine, having qualified in medicine in 1974, and held consultant appointments at three major teaching hospitals. She was appointed consultant at University College Hospital in 1985, moving to the John Radcliffe Hospital in 1995 and then to Charing Cross Hospital (now part of Imperial College Healthcare Trust) in 1997.
Fionna is an Honorary Consultant to the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS). She holds the Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Edinburgh and is a founding Fellow of the Faculty of the College of Emergency Medicine. Fionna is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pre Hospital Care and holds the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care (Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh).
Fionna has been Medical Director of the London Ambulance Service since March 1998. She remains clinically active both in emergency medicine and pre hospital care by doing regular shifts in both areas. Fionna continues to teach and direct advanced life support courses. She is currently also involved in work around pandemic flu and developing a charter for Air Ambulance Services in the UK.
Adrian Newland, Professor of Haematology at Barts and the London NHS Trust
Adrian is Professor of Haematology at Barts and the London NHS Trust where he developed the leukaemia and bone marrow transplant unit in the early 1980s. He now has a particular interest in immunohaematology and is studying the molecular basis of the autoimmune disease and piloting the clinical use of novel treatments. He is Centre Lead for Haematology in the Medical School and is on the governing council of Queen Mary, University of London. He is Director of Pathology for the Trust and is Clinical Director of the North East Thames Cancer Network.
As a haematologist, Adrian has been particularly involved in workforce, training and curriculum development, and until recently, chaired the national Intercollegiate Committee on Haematology. He was President of the British Society for Haematology in 1998/99. He is the UK representative on the European Union of Medical Specialities, and is currently Chairman of the Science and Education Committee of the International Society for Haematology.
Andy Parfitt, Clinical Lead and Consultant in Accident Emergency Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital
Andy has been at St Thomas’ for the last five years and before that was a research fellow in toxicology and self harm at Imperial College London. During his training, he completed an MA in Adult Education and the University of Wales Toxicology Diploma. Having trained initially in the surgical specialities, he completed his training in Accident and Emergency Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital in North West Thames.
Andy set up the Clinical Decision Unit Ward at St Thomas’ which is the largest and busiest in the country admitting 9,500 patients a year under the care of the A&E consultants and the department. He is a section editor for the College of Accident and Emergency Medicine’s electronic learning initiative program which aims to deliver the curriculum for emergency medicine trainees online. St Thomas’ sees 145,000 patients a year and is one of the busiest accident and emergency departments in the country. His current research projects include markers of early sepsis in the emergency department and he is a member of the large improving end of life care for older people collaboration between palliative care and the accident and emergency departments at King’s and St Thomas’.
Marilyn Plant, General Practitioner, Barnes
Marilyn Plant is a GP in SW London. She joined her current practice in 1991, having trained and worked in East Anglia, relocated to practice in inner city Hammersmith and accompanied her husband to America where she was attached as a visiting fellow to the Department of Family Medicine in UCSF. She has been actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education for 15 years, is a GP Trainer and member of the Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine at Imperial College London. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Marilyn has been active in NHS management and was instrumental in the proposals to develop a one-stop rapid diagnostic centre and community hospital at Queen Mary’s, Roehampton, following closure of the acute hospital. She has served as a PCG Chairman and a PCT Medical Director in successive NHS reconfigurations and is now PEC chairman of Richmond and Twickenham PCT. She has contributed to service reviews and has many years experience in NHS redesign. In addition to her commitment to service development and design, education and quality of care, her clinical interests focus on mental health and women’s health care.
Daghni Rajasingham, Consultant Obstetrician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Daghni is lead for the antenatal diabetes service, has a special interest in maternal medicine and is actively involved in the clinical high risk obstetrics. She has been awarded a grant for user engagement in innovative designing of community pre-pregnancy counselling services for diabetes. Her research interests include obesity in pregnancy, pre-pregnancy counselling services, accessing care and women’s health inequalities.
Daghni has worked abroad for a multinational company, gaining experience in project management, International Standardisation Organization (ISO) certification and stakeholder engagement. She is a specialist advisor to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) Interventional Procedures Committee, external advisor to the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) Obesity Project, is a spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and was a previous member of the RCOG Guidelines and Audit Committee. She is currently completing a Masters degree in management and partnership working.
Elizabeth Robb, Director of Nursing, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
Elizabeth Robb has worked for the past two years as Director of Nursing at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust. In November 2007, she was also made Director of Infection Prevention and Control. Previously she was Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Executive at East Somerset NHS Trust where she was also responsible for the early stages of the successful foundation trust application.
Elizabeth is a registered nurse and midwife and retains current registration in both disciplines. She has an Advanced Diploma in Midwifery, is a Registered Midwife Teacher, holds an honours degree in Management and a Masters Degree in Nursing. She obtained a Florence Nightingale Leadership Scholarship in 2006 which was used for both personal and organisational development opportunities. Elizabeth was also invited to participate in the Planned Care Group of the Healthcare for London working groups in the Spring of 2007. Elizabeth’s main interests include patient pathway redesign and improving models of care to improve clinical quality and outcome.
Hilary Shanahan, Director of Nursing, Greenwich PCT
Hilary trained as a State Registered Nurse at King George Hospital, Ilford and remained there for a year as a staff nurse. She then moved to the community and worked as a district nurse for sixteen years, predominantly on night duty whilst her family grew up.
In 1998, Hilary moved into practice development within mental health and learning disabilities, which she enjoyed immensely. This gave her the basis to develop into her role as the Associate Director of Nursing at Havering PCT where she worked for five years. Hilary joined Greenwich Teaching PCT as Director of Nursing in July 2005.
Geraldine Strathdee, Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Clinical Services, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Geraldine is a consultant psychiatrist in an intensive community treatment service and the Director of Clinical Services in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. She is also the specialist clinical adviser to the mental health strategy team at the Healthcare Commission. Her clinical experience spans the full range of inpatient, community and primary care mental health settings. Geraldine has experience in mental health policy development and its practical local implementation since 1990. She has expertise in the development of national regulatory body service review and improvement methods and inspections. She has also led a variety of multidisciplinary and multi-agency service evaluation and research programmes.
Within London and nationally, Geraldine has led major service change management improvement programmes in working age and older adult services. Her current particular interests are in implementation of evidence based practice, dual diagnosis, information prescriptions, and primary care mental health. She has held senior posts in national policy and regulatory organisations, and advises policy bodies internationally on mental health policy and service improvements. Her commitment is to services which address the biopsychosocial needs of patients, with emphasis on self management, partnership working with families and carers to achieve optimal health and social outcomes.
Chris Streather, Renal Physician, Senior Responsible Officer for Outer South East London Organisational Reconfiguration Project, and Transitional Chief Executive, Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust
Chris has been at St George’s since 1997 and was appointed Medical Director in 2004, having previously been Clinical Director and Chair of the Division of Medicine. He has been involved in the development of St George’s Clinical Service Strategy for the last 4 years and has been Director of Strategy since May 2006.
Chris trained at Oxford and St Thomas’ and underwent postgraduate training in London, Brighton and Cambridge. He was a National Kidney Research Fund Training Fellow at King’s College from 1993-1996 and has an interest in the progression of chronic kidney disease, particularly in cardiovascular risk in renal disease and continues to collaborate in research in this area. Chris had leadership training at the King’s Fund from 2002-2004, and has been a regular contributor to clinical leadership programmes there. He was on the acute care subgroup of Healthcare for London. He also chairs the National Reference Panel for the Physician’s Assistant Programme.
Simon Tanner, Regional Director of Public Health
Dr Simon Tanner was appointed by the Chief Medical Officer to the post of Regional Director of Public Health (London) and Health Adviser to the GLA in June 2007.
Previously he has held the posts of Regional Director of Public Health (South Central), Director of Public Health and Medical Director at the former Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA and Director of Public Health with the North and Mid Hampshire Health Authority. Simon qualified as a doctor in 1981 and spent eight years as a principal in general practice before training in public health medicine.
Teresa Tate, Medical Adviser for Marie Curie Cancer Care and a consultant in palliative medicine at Barts and the London NHS Trust
Teresa’s appointment as Marie Curie’s Medical Adviser gives her an almost unique opportunity to cross the boundaries between the NHS and the voluntary sector, with a strategic and policy dimension to the role within a national charity, and a regular clinical commitment in a large NHS trust.
Teresa trained in London and California as a clinical oncologist and changed specialty in 1988. She was first appointed a consultant in 1990 jointly to Forest Healthcare, Whipps Cross Hospital and Barts and moved to join Marie Curie in 2000. Teresa began to practice palliative medicine just as it gained sub-specialty status and became involved in developing the national SpR training programme, chairing the first Specialist Training Committee in North Thames; she is now President of the Palliative Care Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and continues to be involved in post- and under-graduate medical education.
Teresa contributed to the National Council for Palliative Care in various roles over the past 14 years, and is now a Trustee and the Chair of the Ethics Committee. She chairs the National Cancer Research Institute’s Supportive and Palliative Care Research Collaborative Management Committee, which is responsible for developing future capacity and research infrastructure in the field.
Hilary Thomas, Group Medical Director of Care UK
After junior doctor posts, including training in clinical oncology at Hammersmith Hospital, Hilary undertook a PhD in the biology of breast cancer. She was appointed Senior Lecturer in Clinical Oncology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in 1994. In 1998 she was appointed Professor of Oncology at the University of Surrey and the Royal Surrey County Hospital where she established a small research group. She was Clinical Director of the Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire Cancer Network from 2001 until 2004 and subsequently became Medical Director of the Royal Surrey. In that role she became involved in the SHA work on reconfiguration which included articulating the clinical case for change to the public, as well as service redesign such as Hospital at Night and an organisational development initiative called the Patient Line of Sight which won the HSJ Patient Centred Care Award. She was a member of the National Leadership Network Local Hospitals Group from 2005-2006.
Hilary was an elected member of the General Medical Council from 1994 until 2003, where she was a medical screener and Chairman of the Committee on Standards and Ethics. She is a board member of the British Association of Medical Managers and a Trustee of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. In March 2007, she left the NHS to acquire more skills in medical management and is now Group Medical Director of Care UK, a plc which provides health and social care services to the public sector. She has written a column in the Health Services Journal since 2004.
Stephen Thomas, Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Stephen has worked at consultant level in diabetes in London for 10 years and been the lead consultant developing intermediate care services across primary and secondary care in both King’s College Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’, principally serving the 17th and 23rd most deprived boroughs in England. He is a founder member of the Lambeth and Southwark Diabetes Network. Stephen is on the implementation group of Co-creating Health, a Health Foundation run national programme aimed at improving self-management in long-term conditions. He contributed to the NICE guideline of management of anaemia in chronic kidney disease, and has served on the professional advisory council of Diabetes UK.
Matt Thompson, Professor of Vascular Surgery at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, University of London
Matt is Professor of Vascular Surgery at St George’s, University of London, and a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at the St George’s Vascular Institute. He is also Clinical Director for Surgery and Trauma at St George’s NHS Trust. Matt qualified in medicine from St Catherine’s College Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. He trained in vascular surgery at Leicester and Adelaide and was appointed a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1999. Matt’s awards include a Hunterian Professorship, the Moynihan Fellowship and the intercollegiate gold medal. He moved to London in 2002.
Matt runs a large tertiary vascular practice at St George’s Hospital, which is one of the largest in the UK, involving a seven man vascular network covering south west London and a catchment area of over 1.5 million. Clinical interests include the treatment of complex aneurysms, endovascular surgery and carotid disease. Matt has extensive research interests in both basic science and clinical aspects of vascular disease and overseas a large research group. Basic science interests encompass the cellular and molecular events driving aneurysm rupture and carotid plaque instability. Clinical research involves investigations into the delivery of vascular services, outcome reporting and translational treatment of vascular disease. Matt is the secretary of the British Society of Endovascular Therapy, a council member of the Society for Academic and Research Surgery and a member of the Research Board at the Royal College of Surgeons.
Colin Todd, Consultant Radiologist and Medical Director, Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
Colin was appointed Medical Director at Kingston NHS Trust in 2006 and currently splits his time equally between management and clinical practice. His practice predominantly is interventional but he remains on the general on-call rota.
Colin qualified from the Royal Free Hospital in 1979. Initial surgical training resulted in fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1984. A change of career led to training in radiology at the old Westminster and Guy’s Hospital, culminating in an appointment as a consultant radiologist at Queen Mary’s University Hospital, Roehampton, in 1990, with a special interest in vascular and non-vascular intervention. In 1998, Colin transferred to Kingston and was Lead Clinician in Radiology from 2002–2006 and Clinical Director, Clinical Services from 2003-2006.
Cathy Warwick, General Manager of Women and Children’s Services and Director of Midwifery, King’s College Hospital
Cathy Warwick is currently General Manager of Women and Children’s Services and Director of Midwifery at King’s College Hospital, London. She is also a Visiting Professor of Midwifery at King’s College London. Cathy trained as a nurse in Scotland after which she came to London to do her midwifery training. She has worked in midwifery education and was Director of Women’s Studies at the North London College of Nursing and Midwifery. In 2006, Cathy was awarded a CBE for services to healthcare and was made a fellow of the Royal College of Midwives.
Cathy writes and lectures widely on various midwifery issues and has a particular interest in the organisation of maternity services to provide women-centred care. King’s has one of the highest homebirth rates in the UK and is well known for developing and sustaining innovative models of midwifery care. Cathy has advised on the development of midwifery services in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Hong Kong. She has an MSc in Social Policy and her dissertation was about user involvement in the maternity services.
