Indicator advisory committee members

Biography

Dr Ronny Cheung is a consultant paediatrician, Deputy Chief Medical Officer and clinical improvement lead at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust.

He also currently serves as national paediatric advisor to NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Further Faster programme, which dovetails with his longstanding interest in healthcare quality measurement and reducing clinical variation. This interest was fostered during his secondment with the Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, when he worked as a health advisor in the Cabinet Office Strategy Unit, and as clinical advisor in Public Health England.

He also holds roles at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, where he is Officer for Health Services and clinical lead for their State of Child Health programme, and at the Nuffield Trust where he is a Senior Associate.

Biography

Ben is an experienced Public Health leader with a career spanning NHS, Academia, Civil Service and Local Authority Public Health roles. Throughout his career he has held a strong interest in Healthcare Public Health, being passionate about quality improvement, reducing unwarranted variation in care and reducing health inequalities. Over the past decade Ben has developed a strong focus on prevention led systems and how standards and guidelines impact across populations as well as at the individual level.

Ben was previously a standing member on one of NICE’s Quality Standards Advisory Committees.

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Michael began his career in social care before moving into the NHS. His roles have included commissioning mental health services, integrated care, and locality development. He's been involved in commissioning primary care services for the last fifteen years.

Michael is currently Associate Director of Primary Care at NHS Somerset Integrated Care Board (ICB). He holds an MSc in Healthcare Policy and Management from Birmingham University.

Michael’s interests include person-centredness, continuity of care, evidence-based practice and the role of general practice in integrated care systems.

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Following a career in local government (where one of his responsibilities was performance management), Adrian has a variety of public and patient representative roles, locally and nationally. He chairs a Patient Participation Group and a Mental Health Action Group, is on the board of the local Healthwatch, serves on two palliative and end of life care committees and is a patient leader at the local acute trust. He is also a public contributor to a national NIHR funding committee.

He has also previously chaired a children’s mental health charity, represented Healthwatch on the Health and Wellbeing Board and been a lay member of a CCG board.

His interests include the public and patient voice, strategy in health and wellbeing and addressing underlying causes of health inequalities.

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Rachel has been working as an inner-city GP in Bristol for 28 years. Rachel also works as a GPSI in gynaecology, specialising in menopause, and advising and teaching local GPs. She has been involved as a QOF indicators pilot site. She is involved in teaching and research within the practice.

She is a NICE fellow. She is on the HTAP reference panel and an external advisor for the NICE endorsement programme.

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Liz is an advanced nurse practitioner and non-medical prescriber working in a large GP practice in Watford, Hertfordshire. Her clinics are varied; divided between chronic disease management, minor illness and anything else you would see your practice nurse for.

Liz has a specialist interest in antibiotic stewardship, particularly near patient diagnostics for the management of respiratory tract infections. For the past couple of years, alongside her day job, she's been running pilots, writing articles and speaking at conferences, both in the UK and abroad.

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Chloe works as a portfolio GP, splitting her time between regular mainstream GP practice in Oxfordshire and in Scalloway Shetland. She has an interest in quality improvement and leads the NHS Shetland GP Cluster, she also carries out appraisals for other GPs and works as a clinical adviser to the SPSO.

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Chris practices clinical cardiology with particular interests in general cardiology, post myocardial infarction survivorship and chronic heart failure. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the European Society of Cardiology, and a member of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Chris was previously the co-chair of the National Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research (NICOR) Research Board at University College London. He has been a member of the UK nationwide heart attack register (Myocardial Ischaemic National Audit Project, MINAP) academic and steering groups for over a decade.

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Elena was previously a reader and honorary consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Manchester and Booth Hall Children's Hospital.

Elena’s special research/clinical interests include the interface between child psychiatry and primary and paediatric health care; psychosomatic disorders and the psychiatric adjustment of physically ill children; outcome research of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) use.

Elena has previous involvement in international research into CAMHS outcome measures and member of NICE Guideline Development Groups on mental health topics.

Biography

Van Hemelrijck Biography Mieke Van Hemelrijck leads the TOUR (Transforming cancer OUTcomes through Research) Team in the School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences at King's College London. Prof Van Hemelrijck studied for an MSc in biomedical sciences (2001-2005) and an MSc in statistical analysis (2005-2006) at Ghent University, Belgium. While doing so, she became engaged in epidemiology research in the field of urology. She continued her epidemiological training by spending two years at the Harvard School of Public Health (2006-2008), where she obtained an MSc in population and international health, staying focused on cancer research.

From 2008-2010, she worked with Professor Holmberg at King’s College London and obtained a PhD in cancer epidemiology. In 2012, she was appointed as a lecturer in Cancer epidemiology at King’s College London. She leads the TOUR Team and became a professor in late 2020.

Mieke Van Hemelrijck is a keen collaborator having led her team on various projects for international organisations, such as the European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Group, and colleagues from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust with whom she initiated Guy’s Cancer Real World Evidence Programme.

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Sue is a clinical nurse specialist and independent prescriber working in older adults’ mental health services. She leads a team who provide diagnosis, treatment and support for people living with dementia and their carers.

Sue is a specialist advisor to the Care Quality Commission supporting their regulatory activities and inspections of hospitals, nursing and residential homes. She has a PhD in Health Sciences and previous involvement with the NICE guideline committee for Supporting Adult Carers and the corresponding quality standard.

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Tessa has a diploma in therapeutics and was the GP prescribing lead within the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (2002-2011) and medical advisor to All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre. She chaired the All Wales Prescribing Advisory Group (2008-2013) which promotes the safe and effective use of medicines and develops AWMSG National Prescribing Indicators. She has led the development and implementation of therapeutic guidance, for example, All Wales Advice on the Role of Oral Anticoagulants.

Tessa is also a standing committee member on one of NICE’s quality standards advisory committees. Tessa is the vice chair of the NICE antimicrobial stewardship guideline development group and was the chair for the group that developed the NICE medicines practice guideline for “Safe use and management of controlled drugs”.

Biography

Paula is a consultant in Public Health Medicine at the NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, where she is leading the Group’s prevention and equity agenda, helping the Trusts to improve outcomes, particularly for the most vulnerable.

Prior to this role, she worked as a consultant in Public Health Medicine in Liverpool City Council, leading the healthcare public health portfolio. She is passionate about reducing inequalities, increasing value for money and maximising the impact of NHS resources.

Paula trained as a Public Health Physician in Bucharest, Romania and holds a MSc degree in Health Policy, Economics and Management from Maastricht University in the Netherlands. She completed her post-doctoral studies as a research fellow in Translational Medicine at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Canada.

In her previous roles, Paula worked as a health economics and outcomes research consultant and in academia as a public health lecturer. She was previously a standing member on one of NICE’s Technology Appraisal Committees.

Biography

Linn has served as a chair, non-executive director and lay adviser in health and care for over 20 years. She takes a special interest in good governance, outcomes, and how patient and public voice can be embedded in health and care to improve outcomes.

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Rajeev has been a primary and community care doctor for over 20 years. He is currently Clinical Director for Community Health Services at East London Foundation Trust, and a clinician in Urgent & Emergency Primary Care. He also serves on BLMK ICB’s Health Equity steering group.

Policy development has included advisory work for the UK government’s Department of Health and Social Care. In evidence-based practice, Rajeev is an external reviewer for NICE CKS and has served on a number of NICE committees contributing to national clinical guidelines. He has experience of clinical trial, peer review and implementation science processes through the NIHR and UKRI. Rajeev also mentors for the NHS Innovation Accelerator.

He holds an MBA in healthcare leadership and is currently undertaking further training in population health through the University of Manchester’s MPH programme.

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Dr Waqas Tahir is a practising general practitioner and partner in Affinity Care, a multi-site partnership covering 65,000 patients. He also works as a specialist GP in Diabetes and Cardiometabolic medicine, advising and teaching local GPs, nurses, and pharmacists. He has a particular interest in translating evidence into practice, multi-morbidity and the role of technology and innovation in the delivery of patient care. He is a standing member of the NICE Indicator Advisory Committee and a specialist committee member for NICE Quality Standards on T1 and T2 Diabetes. He is the ICS clinical diabetes lead for West Yorkshire ICB as well as the diabetes clinical lead for North East & Yorkshire regional medical team within the NHS. In these roles, he has taken an avid interest in reducing health inequalities and championing diabetes awareness and prevention across the region. More recently, he has joined the expert parliamentary working group to develop policy reforms that can help to improve outcomes for people living with diabetes across the UK and is a member of the council of healthcare professionals (CHP) for the charity Diabetes UK (DUK). He is a committee member for the PCDS(UK) and the Deputy Vice President for the PCDE Education Committee. He has recently been elected to the Executive Board of PCDE(Europe).

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Martin is a Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Medical Director in Greater Manchester, a Visiting Professor at the University of Chester and Chair of the Northwest Clinical Senate. He also works as an external clinical advisor to the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) jointly hosted by Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University London.

Martin is currently Chair of the British Geriatrics Society Ethics and Law Special Interest Group and was the National Clinical Director for Older people at NHS England between 2016 and 2020.

His main interests are in clinical frailty, population ageing, health and social care policy in an ageing society and health care ethics and law towards the end of life.

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Victoria completed her training in general practice in Staffordshire in 2011. She now works as a GP in Berkshire and a Senior Lecturer in General Practice with Keele University. Having obtained a PhD in Epidemiology, her research expertise lies in the use of mixed methods for health services research including epidemiology and the use of big data and qualitative research in topics including care of older people and the primary-secondary care interface. Victoria has been a specialist committee member for our falls prevention quality standard and is Deputy Director of the Keele Centre for Musculoskeletal Research.

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Chris is a cardiologist. In addition to his acute work, he specialises in heart failure and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

He is passionate about improving quality of care and achieving better outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease, which informs his research.

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Philip combines clinical practice with several healthcare governance roles. His primary role is as a GP at Alwoodley Medical Centre, alongside his position as medical examiner for Leeds Teaching Hospital Trusts. He previously served on NHS Digital's Methodology Review Group, where he evaluated healthcare data collection and analysis methodologies. His current appointments include board director at HealthWatch Leeds and honorary faculty treasurer and standing member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Royal College of GP. 

Philip maintains active involvement in medical education through his work as a GP trainer and educational supervisor. He sits on the Executive Council of the Academy of Medical Educators and is the global medical Education editor-in-chief of Elsevier ClinicalKey Student.

His work focuses on improving healthcare delivery through education, technology, and healthcare system development.