INTERTWINGLEMENTS Unravelling the tangle……..
Unravelling the tangle of The Leadership Agenda and a few other things….YOUNG Barbara
Baroness Barbara Young of Old Scone
Life Peer in the House of Lords and Chancellor of Cranfield University.
Barbara Young spent the first 20 years of her career in public relations and in health services management. Latterly she managed a range of health districts in London. She was Chairman then President of the Institute of Health Services Management from 1986 to 1988, and a King’s Fund International Fellow in 1985-86 and 1990-1991.
After 20 years in health care, she switched to an environmental career and has held posts as Chief Executive of the Environment Agency and Chairman of English Nature. From 1990 to 1998, she held the post of Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). She is active in the conservation and environment voluntary sector as President of the British Trust for Ornithology and of the Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Wildlife Trust, and as Vice-President of RSPB, Birdlife International, Plantlife, Flora and Fauna International and The South Georgia Heritage Trust. She sits on the government’s Climate Change Adaptation Committee.
She has also served as Vice-Chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), as a Board member of AWG plc, the water and infrastructure company, and as Chairman of the Care Quality Commission, the regulator for quality in health and social care.
Barbara Young is a Life Peer in the House of Lords as Baroness Young of Old Scone, and is Chancellor of Cranfield University.
She has a number of honorary positions as Patron of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, an Honorary Member of the RICS, Honorary Fellow of the Geologists Association and an Honorary fellow of the Linnean Society. She also holds a number of Honorary Degrees and is an Honorary Fellow Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, Eminent Fellow of IAgrE, CIWEM Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management (CIWM)
She has had an interest in Assisted Dying for 20 years.
WOODWARD James
The Reverend Canon Dr James Woodward
Anglican priest and Canon of St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
The Reverend Canon Dr James Woodward is an Anglican priest who over the last 25 years has work in a number of settings including a hospital chaplaincy and as a non-executive director of a Primary Care Trust. He is presently a Canon of Windsor. He has written extensively in the area of pastoral and practical theology including books about illness, old age and death.
Some of inter-professional interests are reflected on his webpage http://www.jameswoodward.info and he has collaborated with the Strategic Health Authority in the West Midlands in the generation of a webpage designed to help people think about loss, change and death http://www.wellbeingindying.org.uk.
PLATT Denise
Dame Denise Platt
Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
Dame Denise Platt is a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.
She has wide ranging interests in the voluntary and public sectors. Until recently she was Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, she has also been a member of the Audit Commission, and was the Chair of the Local Innovation Awards Scheme.
She has held a variety of posts both nationally and locally, in local government and social care. These include the post of Chief Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate, and Director for Children, Older People and Social Care Services at the Department of Health in England; Director of Social Services, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and Head of Social Services at the Local Government Association. She is a past President of the Association of Directors of Social Services. She currently holds voluntary positions as the Chair of NAT (National AIDS Trust); a Trustee of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), a Trustee of the Adventure Capital Fund; is a Governor of the University of Bedfordshire; a member of the Advisory Board of the School for Social Care Research at the National Institute of Health Research and a member of the Independent Review Board of the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Services. She has recently been appointed as a Trustee of the Lloyds TSB Foundation.
MURPHY Elaine
Baroness Elaine Murphy of Aldgate
Independent (crossbench) life peer, Secretary to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health and a vice-president of the Alzheimer’s Society.
Elaine Murphy is an independent (crossbench) life peer. She trained in medicine and psychiatry and formerly Foundation Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at Guys Hospital, (now part of KCL), was also a senior NHS manager and Vice Chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission. Afterwards, she chaired NHS Trusts and subsequently a Strategic Health Authority until 2006. She then became Chair of Council at St George’s, University of London and a Board Member of Monitor, the NHS Foundation Trust Regulator until 2010. She is Secretary to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Mental Health. She is also a vice-president of the Alzheimer’s Society.
MORDAUNT Penny
Conservative Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North.
Penny was born in 1973, and has lived in Portsmouth since 1975. She was educated at Oaklands RC Comprehensive School and Reading University.
She developed an interest in politics when working in the hospitals and orphanages of post revolutionary Romania for the year prior to and during her time at University, and went on to be Head of Broadcasting at Conservative Central Office and Head of Foreign Press for George W. Bush’s 2000 election campaign.
Outside politics Penny has worked in business and communications in the private, public and charitable sectors; working for the Freight Transport Association, a national lottery distributor, and Diabetes UK.
Since her election in May Penny has assumed the Conservative chairmanship of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Older People & Ageing, and became the founding chairman of the APPG on Life Science.
Penny is a member of the European Scrutiny Committee and has recently won election to the Defence Select Committee, a position for which her experience as a Royal Navy Reservist will stand her in good stead.
GRANDISON-MARKEY Celia
Nurse and Education and Management Consultant for health and social care in the Public Sector.
Celia Grandison-Markey is an Education and Management Consultant for health and social care in the Public Sector. She firmly believes that all who seek the use of Health service resources in the UK have a right to be treated with dignity, respect, and inclusively. All must be listened to and be guided through the best possible care to meet their individual needs.
She is also a nurse and a former Academic Registrar of a nursing department within a College of Community and Health Studies. Highly motivated, achievement orientated and resourceful, Celia is a professionally qualified individual with over 30 years proven operational and strategic experience at senior management and executive levels in the NHS.
Celia strongly believes in the empowerment of individuals to achieve their potential and is committed to ensuring this is achieved in practice. She makes it her business to be in constant contact with as many nurses, midwives and health visitors as possible and provide them with empowering tools and information for use in negotiation within their work settings.
DUCKWORTH Stephen
Founder and former Chief Executive of Disability Matters Limited and board member of the Olympic Delivery Authority.
Dr Duckworth OBE is the founder and Chief Executive of Disability Matters Limited. He is a board member on the Olympic Delivery Authority, Board Champion for Equality and Diversity and Chair of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee. He also sits on the board for the Employers Forum on Disability and the National Quality Board.
Dr Duckworth was an adviser to Ministers for Welfare Reform and for Disabled People on the provision of disability benefits. He has also been very involved in the work of a group of FSA regulated companies that provide ethical finance and insurance to disabled customers. He was also a member of the Council of the University of Southampton.
DACOMBE Carole
Medical Director, St Peter’s Hospice.
Following her graduation from Bristol University with a Medicine degree, she completed a wide variety of hospital posts prior to completion of a Vocational GP Training Scheme. This led to 9 years as a GP principal in the Bristol area. Throughout her hospital and GP work Carole was involved in working alongside patients and families dealing with incurable illness, and found herself drawn increasingly to this work, and keen to learn more about what could be achieved for people finding themselves in this situation.
Having made the decision to leave general practice and pursue this interest further, an opportunity arose for her to join the team at St Peter’s Hospice in Bristol (initially as a part-time Medical Officer) – and she also enrolled to study for the (then quite new) postgraduate Diploma in Palliative Medicine at Cardiff University. She has now been at the hospice for 20 years, and has been the Medical Director for the past 8 – with responsibility for managing the senior and junior doctors, along with the psychology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, complementary therapy and pharmacy services.
She is a firm believer in multi-disciplinary team working and also in community-based palliative care – which means maintaining the closest possible liaison between hospice teams and their local primary health care colleagues.
Education is also a topic very close to her heart, knowing that Specialist Palliative Care will only ever be directly involved in a relatively small proportion of patients who have incurable disease. Teaching, facilitating, advising and mentoring are therefore essential components of the outreach work for any hospice team.
Her day-to-day work now involves a mixture of people management, clinical work within the inpatient unit, community teams and day hospice services, mentoring of junior medical staff, teaching, and management work within the hospice Executive Team. In addition to these duties Carole also attends a number of local and regional meetings about the organisation and development of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care services in Bristol and the SW. She has just completed 2 years of work as the Clinical Lead for End of Life Care in the Service Design Programme for Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset PCTs.
INTERTWINGLEMENTS Unravelling the tangle........ 