General Advisory Council
Under the terms of the Fund's new Royal Charter, the Fund has established a General Advisory Council, chaired by the President.
The purpose of the General Advisory Council is to provide advice to the Chief Executive and Trustees to help the Fund achieve its mission. Members of the Council will use their collective expertise to reflect on the Fund's activities and impact in the previous year; act as a source of intelligence on the key issues and challenges in the health system and to engage in future thinking about trends and developments in policy, leadership and health care improvement.
General Advisory Council members
Members of the Council should be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Chief Executive.
The following people were appointed to the General Advisory Council by our President HRH The Prince of Wales.
- Dr Steve Allder B Med SC BM BS MRCP DM, Medical Director, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
- Lord Michael Bichard, House of Lords
- Dr Mark Britnell, Chairman and Partner, Global Health Practice, KPMG
- Elisabeth Buggins CBE DL, Chair, Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Michael Dixon OBE, Chair, NHS Alliance
- Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair in Health Policy, Imperial College London
- Mike Farrar CBE, Chief Executive, NHS Confederation
- Professor Steve Field CBE FRCGP FFPH FRCP, Deputy National Medical Director for Health Inequalities, Chairman, National Inclusion Health Board, GP
- Professor Julien Forder, Principal Research Fellow, London School of Economics
- Dr Andrew Jones, Managing Director, Corporate Wellbeing, Nuffield Health
- Mr Ron Kerr CBE, Chief Executive, Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Peter Lees, Founding Director, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management
- Jenny Owen CBE, Non-executive director, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust
- Ben Page, Chief Executive, Ipsos MORI
- Jan Sobieraj, Managing Director, NHS Leadership Academy
- Professor Tamar Thompson OBE, independent consultant
- Alwen Williams CBE, Chief Executive, NHS North East London and the City
- Lord Victor Adebowale CBE, Chief Executive, Turning Point
- Dr Sam Barrell, Chief Clinical Officer (designate), South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group
- Jane Collins, Chief Executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care
- Jonathon Hope, patient-centred care change consultant
- Paul Jenkins, Chief Executive, Rethink
- Dr Yi Mien Koh, Chief Executive, Whittington Health
- Sarah Pickup, Director of Health and Community Services, Hertfordshire County Council
- Dr Niti Pall, Chair and Clinical Lead, Pathfinder Healthcare Developments CIC