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 |
Hon. Secretary |
Hon Treasurer |
Hon President |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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
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Dr Peter Mayer chairs the West Midlands local stroke
research network and is President of the Institute
of Ageing and Health.. |
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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 | |
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| 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 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 |












