Patricia Hope Hewitt is a British government adviser and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Health from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Labour Party,she previously served as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry from 2001 to 2005.
Mary Doreen Archer,Baroness Archer of Weston-super-Mare,is a British scientist specialising in solar power conversion. She is married to Jeffrey Archer,a former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party. Archer is the current Chancellor of the University of Buckingham.
David Gifford Leathes Prior,Baron Prior of Brampton is the former chairman of NHS England and chairman of University College Hospital. He served as Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 1997 until the 2001 general election,when he lost his seat to Norman Lamb of the Liberal Democrats by 483 votes. In 2015,he was appointed as a life peer in the House of Lords.
Sir Francis Christopher Buchan Bland was a British businessman and politician. He was deputy chairman of the Independent Television Authority (1972),which was renamed the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the same year,and chairman of London Weekend Television (1984) and of the Board of Governors of the BBC,when he took up a position as chairman of British Telecommunications plc (BT). He left his position with BT in September 2007. Before leaving BT,he became chairman of the Royal Shakespeare Company,in 2004.
Professor Sir Bruce Edward Keogh,KBE,FMedSci,FRCS,FRCP is a Rhodesian-born British surgeon who specialises in cardiac surgery. He was medical director of the National Health Service in England from 2007 and national medical director of the NHS Commissioning Board from 2013 until his retirement early in 2018. He is chair of Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Sir David Nicholson is a public policy analyst and NHS Manager who is the Chair of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and Chair of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. He was previously the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England. He was appointed in October 2011 following the NHS reforms,having been seventh Chief executive of the NHS within the Department of Health since September 2006. He issued what has become known as the "Nicholson challenge" regarding the finances of the NHS. He retired from the role on 1 April 2014 in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Dame Jacqueline Docherty is a British nursing administrator and medical professional,who was Chief Executive of West Middlesex University Hospital in February 2009 until its merger with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,having previously served as Director of Nursing,Director of Operations and Deputy Chief Executive at King's College Hospital,London.
Anthony Howe Browne is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Cambridgeshire since the 2019 general election. He has served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Decarbonisation and Technology in November 2023. He is a member of the Conservative Party.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust based in London,England. It is one of the largest NHS trusts in England and together with Imperial College London forms an academic health science centre.
UCLPartners is an academic health science centre located in London,England. It is the largest academic health science centre in the world,treats more than 1.5 million patients each year,has a combined annual turnover of around £2 billion and includes around 3,500 scientists,senior researchers and consultants.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital. The Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2006. The Trust's chief executive is Lesley Watts and its chairman is Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett.
Stephen Kevin Smith is an academic and health executive who led the creation of the United Kingdom's first Academic Health Science Centre at Imperial College London.
Urmila "Millie" Banerjee,is a British businessperson who has held a number of public appointments.
Sir David Henshaw was the Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council,from 1998 to 2005. He was knighted in the 2004 Birthday Honours.
Anthony Lindsay Caplin,a son of Abram Caplin and Vera Doris Benjamin. He is a British company director and former chief operating officer of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party.
Genomics England is a British company set up and owned by the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care to run the 100,000 Genomes Project. The project aimed in 2014 to sequence 100,000 genomes from NHS patients with a rare disease and their families,and patients with cancer. An infectious disease strand is being led by Public Health England.
Healthcare in London,which consumes about a fifth of the NHS budget in England,is in many respects distinct from that in the rest of the United Kingdom,or England.
Museji Ahmed Takolia CBE has served in public and government service. His main business interest is as a strategic adviser to Intellicomm Solutions Private Ltd (India). He was the chairman of Wye Valley NHS Trust from June 2014 until October 2016,when he resigned. He was appointed chair of the Pensions Advisory Service in February 2016. He was formerly group chairman of the Metropolitan Housing Partnership,a non-executive director of the schools regulator Ofsted,a senior civil servant in the Cabinet Office,and a board member of the Commission for Health Improvement. He was appointed a C.B.E. in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to Diversity and Equal Opportunities.
Professor Jonathan Samuel Friedland is a British physician and medical researcher who is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Infectious Diseases at St George's,University of London.
Sir Stephen Huw Powis is a renal medicine consultant and has been the National Medical Director of NHS England since 2018. Previously he was the chief medical officer at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a professor at University College London.
