Monday, March 25th, 2024
I am the Chair of the Public Advisory Group and the Ethics Lead for RDS London. I am a former Vice Chair of an NHS Research Ethics Committee (REC) & current Vice Chair & training lead for a global REC (Save the Children). I have sat on 5 NIHR funding panels, the CRUK Early Diagnosis funding panel and is currently on the HS&DR Board; the RfPB Chair’s Interview Panel & the DHSS Multimorbidity funding panel. I sit on the Board of the NIHR School of Public Health Research, NETSCC PPI Reference Group & the International Strategic Advisory Board of the Cambridge Uni Pub Health & Global Pub Health research units where I am also PPI Lead and Chair of the WM Public Advisory Group. I am PPI Co-Lead for two Policy Research Units (QSO; PIRU & PH) and am advisor to the Cancer Screening & Diagnosis PRUs. I am lay member to the Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit & a member of the NIHR Covid College of Experts. I am currently serving the Healthcare Infection Society writing guidelines on Covid-19; MRSA and surgical site infection.
Outside research I work in Mental Health Law Chairing a Mental Health Act Appeals Panel & in medico-legal investigation as ‘HM (RCS) Inspector of Surgeons’ in UK and Eire & for the NHS as a member of the Independent Funding Review Panel. I am a former CQC Inspector/MHA Commissioner, RCGP Quality Assessor and GP performance Assessor & served for 3 years on various NICE committees. I am a former Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Scholar and currently hold honorary contracts with the Universities Cambridge, Kent & KCL.
My interest in social care comes from living with a complex long term condition and caring for parents with complex health and social care needs.
