Quality standards advisory committee members

Umesh is a clinical academic with a sustained commitment to high quality patient centred care working as a GP in a deprived area of East Lancashire for over 25 years and Professor of Primary Care at the University of Lancashire. He is also clinical quality lead for Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board. He has developed a career as a research lead contributing to both improving the knowledge base on tackling health inequality in health care and social care and improving quality of care delivery at local, regional, national and international levels.

Recent publications by Umesh.

Jane has over 15 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. Jane has previously served as a publicly-elected hospital governor, and she also held lay membership positions at NHS England.

In addition to serving on the NICE Quality Standards Advisory Committee, Jane currently sits as an adjudicator on regulatory tribunal hearings.

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, a Suicide Prevention Champion and a registrant member of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practice Committee.

Nadim has been a general medical practitioner for 30 years. He has been involved in the commissioning of healthcare for 15 years and a chair of Liverpool CCG from June 2012-2018.

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 and Professor of Clinical Oncology in the University of Manchester. His main interests are in management of cancers of the urogenital tract and lymphomas. He has extensive clinical trial experience and is an NIHR Senior Investigator. Peter was previously a member of our prostate and lymphoma clinical guideline committees and chair of our colorectal clinical guidelines and harmful gambling committees.

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 as the UK’s Head of Quality and Standards. Since 2021, Keith has worked as an Independent Social Care Consultant supporting Care Providers to prepare for Inspections and undertaking Quality Reviews and Audit. He's particularly interested in supporting services for people living with dementia.

Devina is a portfolio GP working in Central London. She 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 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 worked within the Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity team within OHID, for the Department of Health and Social Care. She holds various national and international board roles including the Primary Care advisor for the NIHR Hearing Theme Board and was the national RCGP Clinical Champion for hearing loss.

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 a national multi-award winner including the Prime Minister’s Point of Light and NHS Rising Star Parliamentary Award 2023 for her work in service improvement, patient care and improving GP training and was invited to meet the King at Buckingham Palace for her work.

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-ranging clinical experience and currently works as a GP/speciality doctor in Elderly 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 sits as a fitness to practice Tribunal Member for the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) and as a guideline committee member for NICE. He is a peer reviewer for BMJ Journals.

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 the Director and SRO for the Future of Population and Migration Statistics 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.