SHA Central Council
Members of Central Council and officers are elected according to our constitution.
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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 lives in Cambridge and is a former MP
and 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 was
Chair of North Warwickshire PCT from 2002 to 2006 and an elected councillor
since 1995. |
Christine Durance represents Unison |
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Dave Watson represents the Scottish Branch and is Chair
of the Scottish Labour Party |
David Mattocks lives in Solihull. He represents the
West Midlands |
David Pickersgill is Secretary of Wakefield and Kirklees Partnership Health UNISON and a Specialist Practitioner in Community Mental Health Nursing. Chair of Wakefield CLP and Chair of Governors of a local school. | Dr Dianne Hayter is a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee |
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Dr Doug Naysmith is MP for Bristol
North West |
Eifion Edwards, former General Secretary of a local
YMCA, lectures in Management, represents Wales |
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. |
John Lipetz a retired NHS
manager,lives in Hampstead and is chair of Epilepsy Bereaved.
He represents us at KONP. |
Lynne Friedli | Michael English |
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Patrick Vernon 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 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. |
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Seton During is a charted engineer, a former councillor
in Enfield and a member of Enfield
LINK |
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 | Tom Fitzgerald is a hospital doctor from Hammersmith. He is involved in local refugee support and a member of Amnesty Health professionals network |
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| Waheed Saleem | Warren Town represents the Society
of Radiographers |
Martin Rathfelder is the Director of the Association. Election agent for Sir Gerald Kaufman, on the National Association of Links Members committee and NW Regional Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards | |
