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SHA Central Council

Members of Central Council and officers are elected according to our constitution. Minutes of the last meeting. The next meeting will be in York on 19th June.

Chair

Dr Brian Fisher

Hon. Secretary

Huw Davies

Hon Treasurer

Gavin Ross

Hon President

Dr Julian Tudor Hart

Dr Brian Fisher Huw Davies

Gavin Ross

Dr Julian Tudor Hart
Brian is a GP in Lewisham and Patient and Public Involvement lead for the NHS Alliance. He keen on community development information technology and in giving patients access to their medical records
Huw is from Ebbw Vale and has been a Councillor and Community Health Councillor in London. He is a member of the London Regional Board of the Labour Party.
Gavin is Secretary of Hitchin & Harpenden Constituency Labour Party, former Chair of NW Herts CHC and a member of St Albans Patient Group

Julian worked as a GP in a mining village in South Wales, from where he published The Inverse Care Law, A New Kind of Doctor, Feasible Socialism. The Political Economy of Health Care: A clinical perspective

Vice Chair Cllr Tina Funnell Vice Chair Melanie Johnson Vice Chair Cllr Mike Roberts Vice Chair Dr Neil Goulbourne
Cllr Tina Funnell
Melanie Johnson
Cllr Mike Roberts Dr Neil Goullbourne

City of York Councillor, Patient Engagement Officer Patient Opinion. Trustee of the Medicines and People Partnership at the RPSGB

Melanie Johnson chairs the Health Equalities Alliance and is a former Minister for Public Health
Member of the Well Being Board at the LGA involved with national bodies and organisations for health inequalities, housing, planning. Dr Neil Goulbourne is a GP, working in Coventry
Dr Ali  Syed Barrie Brown Cllr Chris Bain  
Dr Ali Syed, Nuclear Medicine Specialist for 35 years, represents the Scottish Branch
Barrie Brown is Lead Officer for Nursing, Unite Health
Chris Bain is on the board of George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust. and was a PCT Chair
Christine Durance represents Unison
Dave Watson David Mattocks David Pickersgill Dr Dianne Hayter
Dave Watson represents the Scottish Branch and is Chair of the Scottish Labour Party
David Mattocks is Chair of the infrastructure organisation SUSTAiN supporting the Third Sector in Solihull, formerly Chief Office of Solihull CHC
David Pickersgill is Secretary of Wakefield and Kirklees Partnership Health UNISON and a Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse. Chair of Wakefield CLP and Chair of Governors of a local school. Lady Dianne Hayter is a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee
Dr Doug Naysmith MP   George Conchie Jacob Hunt Stewart
Dr Doug Naysmith is a councillor in Bristol
George Conchie Co-op Party Milton Keynes
Jacob Hunt Stewart is an active member of Young Labour and Labour Students, and is currently studying for a masters at the University of Sheffield in Health Economics
Jane Roberts Dr Jane Thomas John Lipetz  
Dame Jane Roberts Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist + PCT Executive Director. From April 2010, interim Clinical Director at Commissioning Support for London. Background also in local government.
Dr Jane Thomas Brighton
John Lipetz a retired NHS manager,lives in Hampstead and is chair of Epilepsy Bereaved. He represents us at KONP. Dr Lynne Friedli
Michael English   Cllr Patrick Vernon Dr Peter Mayer
Michael English is chair of the London LINK and formerly MP for Nottingham West
Mike Grady was a PCT Chief Exec and now works for the Marmot review
Patrick Vernon, Chief Executive of the Afiya Trust is a councillor in Hackney and founder of 100 Great Black Britons
Dr Peter Mayer chairs the West Midlands local stroke research network and is President of the Institute of Ageing and Health..
Richard Bourne   Sharon Holder Suresh Pushpanathan
Richard Bourne is currently under contract with the DH.  He has been the Chair of an Ambulance Service, an NHS Shared Service Provider and an Acute Trust. He was a Labour County and District Councillor for 16 years
Sharon Holder is the National Officer for Health for the GMB Trade Union Suresh Pushpananthan is a Specialist Registrar Neurosurgeon in London and Vice Chair of the Fabian Society
  Vivien Giladi Waheed Saleem Warren Town
Tom Fitzgerald is a hospital doctor from Hammersmith. He is involved in local refugee support and a member of Amnesty Health professionals network Vivien Giladi is a councillor in Enfield Waheed Saleem Warren Town represents the Society of Radiographers
 
Martin Rathfelder
Martin Rathfelder is the Director of the Association. Election agent for Sir Gerald Kaufman, a member of the NW Regional Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards and an elected NHS Trust Governor