Quality standards advisory committee members

Umesh is a GP and Clinical Lead for Cardiovascular and Quality for East Lancashire CCG. He is also Professor in Primary Care at the University of Central Lancashire. Umesh has extensive personal experience of General Practice, and has practised as a GP since 1994 with a sustained commitment to high quality patient centred care in a deprived area of East Lancashire for over 20 years.

Umesh has in parallel developed a career as a researcher and leader that has enabled him to contribute both to the knowledge base of tackling health inequality in primary care and improving quality at a local, regional, national and international level.

Umesh has previous experience of developing National Guidelines for NICE as member of the Guideline Development Group for mental health problems in people with learning disability and Cerebral Palsy in Adults and acted as an Expert Adviser for the Quality Standards Advisory Committee.

Jane has over 10 years’ experience bringing forward public and patient views to help shape healthcare services locally and nationally. She also has a PhD and 20 years’ academic experience in health services research.

Jane has board-level expertise as a Charity Trustee and Non-Executive Director, together with qualifications in Business and Finance, and 11-years sales/marketing and strategic planning experience in UK manufacturing and business support.

In addition to serving on the NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee, Jane currently holds Lay Membership positions in Specialised Services Commissioning at NHS England.

Shorai has over 24 years’ experience in Health and Social care. In both the NHS and private care sectors. Shorai has experience of multi-site management and is successful in the development of bespoke quality assurance processes for different models of services and proactively implement KPIs that identify areas of good practice and areas of risk within a service. She believes that every person should receive excellent care and support regardless of where they live, their gender and background.

Shorai is a trustee of International Children’s Care (UK), a personalised accreditation assessor and a registrant member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practice Committee.

Nadim has been a general medical practitioner for 25 years. He has been involved in the commissioning of healthcare for 10 years and a chair of Liverpool CCG since June 2012.

His area of expertise is primary care and commissioning of healthcare.

Saran is a nurse, and has worked in a number of senior leadership roles within the acute and integrated care sectors of the NHS (both in England and Wales). She currently works in a director role within Transformation at an NHS organisation in Cardiff.

Saran has extensive experience in the operational management of clinical services, Quality and Safety, Patient Experience & Engagement, and Risk & Governance.

Mariana is a Paediatrics Speciality Trainee in the north central and east London Deanery. After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge she has developed a keen interest in evidence-based care throughout her clinical career. Alongside her training in London, she has had the opportunity to be involved in international efforts that highlight the critical impact of evidence-based care such as the Global Burden Disease Consortium and the Cochrane Collaboration.

Her clinical and academic goals are to work with like-minded individuals and organisations to help shape improvements in the quality and delivery of patient care.

Dominika is a senior clinical pharmacist in a GP practice and a senior lecturer in non-medical prescribing in North West England. She has extensive experience across community pharmacy, commissioning and primary care, with particular interest in dermatology, menopause management and respiratory diseases.

Dominika is also passionate about implementing quality improvements and shared decision-making in medicines optimisation

Steve is an experienced clinician with a track record of innovation and of thought leadership, particularly in the fields of health information and clinical data science. He is currently director of public health in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

As medical director of Health Dialog, Steve was closely involved in services covering ten million people in the UK and many millions in France, Spain, Australia and the United States. Health Dialog was the largest predictive risk modelling and shared decision making provider in the world.

Steve has worked with many organisations as a consultant including WHO, UNICEF, OECD, the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, the European Insurance Forum, the Albert Schweitzer Foundation, the World Bank, many NHS organisations, Public Health England, Reuters, BMJ, Bupa, AT Kearney, Towers Watson, Methods Analytics, Infinity Health, Elsevier and several overseas governments. He also led the research team for a UK cross-governmental review of the health of the working-aged population. Steve was chairman of the Representative Body of the British Medical Association for several years. Steve is currently chair of the post-traumatic stress disorder guideline development group.

Peter is a clinical oncologist. His main interests are in management of cancers of the urogenital tract and lymphomas. He has extensive clinical trial experience. Peter was previously a member of our prostate and lymphoma clinical guideline committees and chair of our colorectal clinical guidelines committee.

Kultar is a GP partner driven by his passion for enhancing healthcare outcomes through cutting-edge digital innovation. With a proven track record of successfully scaling digital primary care operations on an international level, he has played pivotal roles in the seamless integration of new technologies, optimisation of clinical workflows, and strategic expansion of clinical teams. These efforts have culminated in significant improvements in patient care, outcomes, and overall experiences.

As an advocate of continuous quality improvement, Kultar has established quality assurance and governance programs across multiple clinical services. By fostering close collaborations with epidemiologists, product teams, data analysts and the wider clinical team, he has made substantial contributions to the redesign of patient-centred mobile apps, the enhancement of point-of-care solutions for healthcare professionals and the development of insightful outcome dashboards, offering a comprehensive and data-driven approach to evaluating and refining healthcare processes.

Keith has extensive experience in the development, management and delivery of social care. His career began in 1980 as a care assistant and he progressed into care management. He's achieved professional and management qualifications including a BA (Hons) in Regulation and Inspection.

Keith was North West Head of Regional Compliance at the Care Quality Commission until September 2014. He then joined Home Instead Senior Care. His responsibility is to maintain and improve the quality of care delivered across all 175 Home Instead offices. He's particularly interested in providing support to families and people living with dementia.

Devina was one of the national medical director’s clinical fellows working within the Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care Directorate at the Care Quality Commission and is a GP registrar by background. Devina holds various national and international board roles including primary care advisor for the NIHR Hearing Theme Board, was the national RCGP clinical champion for hearing loss and currently works within the Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity team within OHID, for the Department of Health and Social Care.

JShe has experience of working with multi-professional committees at both local, regional and national level, and has an understanding of the breadth of healthcare, public health, and social care systems, including mechanisms required to support continuous quality improvement. She has a diverse range of clinical and business experience after completing her MBA and is a founder of Health Pioneers Charity, helping reduce health and education inequalities amongst lower socio-economic deprived areas and ethnic minorities.

She is the 2021 winner of the UK Asian Women of Achievement Award – Young Achiever Category and Pulse GP Awards – GP Trainee/Rising Star.

Murugesan Raja is an enthusiastic, diligent, and caring member of the health and care(medical) profession. He has a genuine and kind approach, is committed to building back fair and is an authentic leader. His expertise includes General Practice, respiratory medicine, quality and performance and clinical leadership.

With over eight year’s strategic leadership and board experience, in Manchester, Greater Manchester and nationally, he still maintains a strong desire and continues to contribute to system leadership. Currently, he serves as the clinical lead for quality and performance, for Manchester locality and clinical lead for respiratory medicine, for Manchester and Greater Manchester.

Louis has a wide range of clinical experience, and currently works as a sessional GP (Primary Care) and as a GPSI in care of the elderly (Secondary Care). He has an interest in healthcare quality improvement and evidenced-based practice.

Louis has worked as a specialist advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC). He currently sits as a fitness to practice tribunal member for the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) and as a guideline committee member for NICE.

Louis is a registered charity commission trustee for Cleeve Hill Common, a site of special scientific interest (SSSI).

Biography to follow.

Ruth joined ONS in June 2020 having worked in policy departments for a number of years. Ruth is a member of the UK Government Statistical Service and led a number of statistical teams across various sectors. Ruth has experience leading multi-disciplinary teams working in health statistics and research, as well as various policy and regulatory roles. Ruth has a particular interest in producing statistics and intelligence to inform decision making, and reflecting how evidence will be used.

Ruth is currently Interim Director for the CIS in the Health Analysis and Pandemic Insight Directorate and Director for Census and Data Collection Transformation Programme, leading an ambitious programme on the future of population and migration statistics.

Prior to this Ruth led the Covid Infection Survey Analysis team - a survey widely considered to be the gold-standard for infection rates in the UK and the envy of many countries around the world, responding to rapidly changing user needs. The survey has been a critical source of information to help make policy decisions in response to the pandemic.

Mark pioneered changes to acute medical services in Heart of England Trust as clinical director and associate medical director. As acute care fellow, Royal College of Physicians, Mark commissioned and edited the acute care toolkits (2011-14) and chaired the hospital pathways work stream of the Future Hospital Commission. Appointed Future Hospital Officer he led the RCP program implementing the commission’s recommendations.

Mark is a champion for general internal medicine and past president of the West Midlands physicians association. He chaired the medical patient safety executive group (NHSE) and is a member of the national patient safety response advisory panel. Mark is an associate editor of future healthcare journal and edited journal issues on digital healthcare (2017).