GPhC Council members
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GPhC Council members
Our chair, Bob Nicholls CBE, was appointed in June 2009. The other 13 members of the governing council were appointed in September 2009. These were 'designate' appointments and made formal when the Pharmacy Order and the General Pharmaceutical Council (Constitution) Order became law in 2010.
Chair - Bob Nicholls CBE
Bob Nicholls is the first chair of the GPhC and one of its seven lay members.
He has over 40 years' experience in health care, working as a senior manager and chief executive in the NHS at hospital, district and regional level, abroad as a consultant for the British Council, and as a Non Executive Director of a private health company.
He was also the London Commissioner and a non-executive director of the Appointments Commission from 2005 to 2008. Bob is a fellow and former president of the Institute of Healthcare Management and was awarded the CBE for services to healthcare in 1995.
Relevant previous appointments include:
- Chair of the National Clinical Assessment Authority from 2003 to 2005
- Lay member of the General Medical Council from 1996 to 2006, including serving as chair of the preliminary proceedings committee until 2004 and as a member of the standards and fitness to practise committees
- Member of the Clinical Education Committee of Oxford Medical School 1998 - 2006
Currently Bob is a member of the Modernising Pharmacy Careers Programme Board, the Cambridge Health Network and attends All Party Pharmacy Group meetings.
Sarah Brown
Sarah is a non-executive director with experience in the public and not-for-profit sectors. Sarah worked for the Department of Trade and Industry for over 30 years, in a variety of senior positions, including Director of Company Law and Head of Small Firms and Business Links.
Her current appointments include:
- Special adviser, Bar Standards Board
- Trustee, the Horder Centre
- Audit Committee Chair for Parkinson's UK
Previous public appointments include:
- Lay member, Bar Standards Board
- Member of the Competition Commission
- Non-executive director, Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office
- Member, Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board
- Vice Chair of South West Kent NHS PCT
- Director, Financial Services Compensation Scheme
- Member of the RPSGB's Investigating Committee
Soraya Dhillon MBE
Soraya is Dean of the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire.
Her current appointments include:
- Member of the DH Medical Education England - Modernising Pharmacy Careers Programme Board
- Member NHS Research Ethics Herts and Welwyn
- Fellow of the RPS, which recognises her expertise in the science and practice of pharmacy
- Fellowship of London School of Pharmacy (UCL)
Previous appointments include:
- Foundation Professor and Head of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Hertfordshire
- Vice Chairman Pharmacy School's Council (formerly Council of Heads of School's of Pharmacy CUHOPS) 2010-2012
- Chair of Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust, 1999-2010
- Director of Taught Postgraduate Studies at the London School of Pharmacy
- Regional Specialist Pharmacist for North East Thames RHA and Whittington Hospital London
- Vice-Chair and non-executive director of Bedfordshire Health Authority
- Member of the Working Party on Professional Regulation and Leadership in pharmacy led by Lord Carter of Coles
- She received her MBE for services to healthcare in 2007 and was awarded the RPSGB's Charter Gold Medal for Pharmacy in 2008, in recognition of her pharmacy experience and academic achievements, both here and overseas
Gordon Dykes
Mr Gordon Dykes is a Director and superintendent pharmacist of A G Bannerman Ltd, a group of five independent community pharmacies in Glasgow and Dunblane, where he has worked since qualifying as a pharmacist in 1984.
Current appointments include:
- Contractor member of the Pharmacy Practices Committee
Previous appointments include:
- Member of the board of the National Pharmacy Association until July 2011
- Member of the Greater Glasgow & Clyde Area Pharmaceutical Committee (APC)
- Chair of the APC Community Pharmacy Sub-committee
- Gordon has also acted as a pre-registration tutor of pharmacy pre-registration graduates
Mary Elford
Mary is a Non-Executive Director of East London NHS Foundation Trust, providing mental health and community services.
Current appointments include:
- Council member, Queen Mary, University of London
- Lay adviser, Department of Health
- Member of the National Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards
Previous appointments include:
- Non-Executive Director, Barts & the London NHS Trust
- Range of executive roles with the John Lewis Partnership
- Trustee of the Camden Society for People with learning disabilities
- Trustee of Keen London for children with disabilities
- Business mentor for the Prince's Trust
Mary Elford - Reg of interests - Jan 2013 [PDF 93.24 KB]
Christina Funnell
Christina’s appointments include:
- City of York Councillor in 2011 (elected for a four-year term)
- Trustee of the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust
- Lay member of the i4i research programme
- Chair of the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee
- Trustee of York Council for Voluntary Service
Previous appointments include:
- Part-time consultant as patient engagement officer with Patient Opinion
- Lay member of the Richard Neale Inquiry
- Chief Executive of the National Eczema Society and the Skin Care Campaign
- Organising Secretary for the Health Coalition Initiative
- Lay member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Chair of the NMC Fitness to Practise Investigations and Interim Order Panel
- Patient involvement consultant for the North and East Yorks and North Lincs Strategic Health Authority
Mohammed Hussain
Mohammed is the Clinical Safety Assurance Manager at the Electronic Prescription Service in the DH Informatics Directorate, Department of Health
Current appointments include:
- Independent member, Community Pharmacy West Yorkshire
- Director, White Rose Pharmacy Services Ltd (independent community pharmacy)
- Sessional work as a community pharmacist.
Previous appointments include:
- Member, investigating committee, RPSGB
- Head of Community Pharmacy Services, Leeds PCT
Mohammed Hussain - Reg of interests - Jan 2013 [PDF 110.48 KB]
Ray Jobling
Ray is currently a fellow in sociology at St John's College, Cambridge.
Current appointments also include:
- Lay/public representative on the Modernising pharmacy Careers Programme Board
- Trustee of the Pharmacy Practice Research Trust
Previous appointments include:
- Chair of Pharmacy Health Link
- Lay member of the council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB)
- Member of the RPSGB's Education Committee
- Chair of the RPSGB's Pre-Registration Pharmacy Liaison Group
- Member of the RPSGB's Academic Pharmacy Group Committee
- Chair of the Community Pharmacy Research Consortium
- Member of the Pharmacy Workforce Planning and Policy Advisory Group
Elizabeth Kay
Liz is currently Clinical Director, Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Within her role at the trust, she is responsible for over 440 staff and a medicine expenditure budget of £100m.
Other current appointments include:
- Visiting professor of Pharmaceutical Care at the University of Leeds
Previous appointments include:
- Chair of the Association of Teaching Hospital Pharmacists
- External examiner at the Medway School of Pharmacy
- Member of the RPSGB's Appointments Group
- Chair of the Hospital Pharmacists Group at the RPSGB
- General Manager, Elective Care at Leeds General Infirmary
- Director of Clinical Pharmacy at Leeds General Infirmary
- Director of Pharmacy Training and Research at Leeds General Infirmary
Dr Berwyn Owen
Berwyn is the Clinical Director of Pharmacy & Medicines Management at the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.
Current appointments include:
- Chair, Health Professional Forum , Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Associate board member, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- Director, National Medicines Management Programme, NHS Wales & Welsh Government
- Member, All Wales Medicines Strategy Steering Group
- Honorary Senior Lecturer, Prifysgol Bangor University
- Sessional community pharmacy locum and hospital pharmacist
Previous appointments include:
- Chair, Welsh Pharmaceutical Committee
- Member, Ministerial Pharmacy Strategic Group
Berwyn Owen - Reg of interests - Mar 2013 [PDF 91.42 KB]
David Prince CBE
David is an accountant and a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, and has a portfolio of Non Executive Director appointments, with an audit & risk specialism. He has experience at a strategic management/chief executive level with the Audit Commission and local authorities. David is currently the independent external member of the GPhC Remuneration Committee and will be resigning from this post before taking up his new duties.
Current appointments include:
- Independent member, audit & risk committee, General Osteopathic Council
- Independent member, governance, risk & audit committee, Bar Standards Board
- Independent member, audit & risk assurance committee, Care Quality Commission
Previous appointments include:
- Chair, audit & risk committee and Member, Leicestershire Police Authority
- Council member and chair of audit & risk committee, General Social Care Council
- Chief Executive, Standards Board for England
- Managing Director, strategy and resources, Audit Commission
- Chief Executive, Leicestershire County Council
David Prince - Reg of interests - Jan 2013 [PDF 482.22 KB]
Samantha Quaye
Samantha is the Chief Pharmacy Technician, Clinical Services, at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Previous appointments include:
- Hon. Secretary, APTUK
- GPhC Fitness to Practise Committee Member
- Member, Stakeholder User Advisory Board, CPPE
Samantha Quaye -Reg of interests - Jan 13 [PDF 481.81 KB]
Keith Wilson
Keith is currently deputy dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University.
Current appointments include:
- Professor of Pharmacy at Aston University
- Fellow and member of the RPS
- Member of the Modernising Pharmacy Careers Board
- Joint lead for the Modernising Pharmacy Careers post-regulation work stream
Previous appointments include:
- Head of Aston School of Pharmacy
- Director of Undergraduate Programmes, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University
- Pharmacy Course Leader at Aston University
- Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy at Aston University
- Member of the British Pharmaceutical Society
- Member of the RPSGB Council
Judith Worthington
Judy's previous public appointments include her role as a non-executive director at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust where she chaired the Governance and Risk Committee until 2009; she was a magistrate and Court Chair of the Melton and Rutland Bench where she had been since 1991. Her background is in education, training and inspection in the healthcare sector and her current interests include professional systems regulation in the legal, healthcare and accountancy sectors, and their role in protecting the public.
Current appointments:
- Chair of the Leicester Medical School student fitness to practise committee
- Chair, professional conduct committee, General Osteopathic Council
- Appeal panel member, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
- Member of the Taxation Disciplinary Board investigation committee
- Independent member of the Bar Standards Board governance, risk and audit committee
- Lay assesor, National Clinical Assesment Services (NCAS)
- Lay reviewer, Royal College of Surgeons Invited Review Mechanism
Former appointments include:
- Lay member of the General Medical Council
- Chair of the General Medical Council fitness to practise panels
- Deputy Chair of the Investigating Committee of the RPSGB
- Member of the General Chiropractic Council and audit committee chair
- Member of the appointments board at the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Deputy Chair of the Leicestershire Family Proceedings Panel
- Lay member of the Healthcare Commission's inspection and review teams
- Council member of the CHRE (Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence)
Outgoing Council members:
- Cathryn Brown (Council member March 2010- March 2013)
- Celia Davies (Council member March 2010- March 2013)
- John Flook (Council member March 2010- March 2013)
- Lesley Morgan MBE (Council member March 2010- March 2013)
- Peter Wilson (Council member March 2010- March 2013)