Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board Membership
Chair:
Professor Clive Morton
Board:
25 members - 16 medical and 9 lay (including the Chair)
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Secretary of State for England appoints 19 members (including the first Chair)
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6
(one medical and one lay member each) from administrations in Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland |
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6
from a list provided by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges |
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1
from a list provided by the General Medical Council |
Each member’s term of office will be
for a period of three years. 
The members appointed are:
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Professor Carol Black
– president, Royal College of Physicians |
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Professor Alan Craft
– president, Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health |
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Professor
Stephen Field
– postgraduate dean, Midlands region; practising GP |
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Professor Sian Griffiths
- president, Faculty of
Public Health Medicine |
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Professor
David Haslam
– practising GP; Chairman of Council, Royal College of General Practitioners |
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Professor Peter Hill
– postgraduate dean, Northern region; Professor of Postgraduate Medical
Education at University of Newcastle upon Tyne |
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Dr Hasmukh
Joshi –
Regional Adviser for NCAA, practising GP |
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Dr Namita Kumar
- Specialist Registrar in Rheumatology; member of MRCP Standard Setting Board
Reference Group. |
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Professor David Neal
– Royal College of Surgeons |
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Dr Ewen Sim –
GP Registrar and acting Chair of BMA Junior Doctors Committee |
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Dr Peter Simpson
- president, Royal College of Anaesthetists |
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Professor
Dame Lesley Southgate
– president, Royal College of GPs |
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Dr Anita Thomas
– hospital consultant in general & geriatric medicine, Director of Medical Education
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. |
Lay Members
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Professor Angela Coulter
–CE Picker Institute Europe, Executive Director of Policy & Development at
Kings Fund |
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Professor Janet Grant
– Professor of Education in Medicine at the Open University |
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Ms Jane Reynolds
- independent Chair for
the Local Authority Social Services Departments' Complaints review panels |
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Mr Finlay Scott
- Chief Executive of the
GMC |
NOTE: Secretary
of State for England has only appointed 18 out of 19 members. It was felt
necessary to have a serving NHS Chief Executive on the Board in order to reflect
current NHS issues. A separate exercise will take place shortly to recruit such
an individual and complete the Board membership.
Members appointed from the Devolved Administrations
Northern Ireland
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Medical: Dr John Jenkins, Senior Lecturer in Child Health, Queen’s
University Belfast and Consultant Paediatrician. Vice-chairman, NI Council for
Postgraduate Medical & Dental Education |
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Lay: Ms Frances Gawn – past chair of NI Primary Care Forum, previously
Director of Nursing. |
Scotland
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Medical: Professor Stuart MacPherson, RCS Ed, Scottish Postgraduate
Dean and member of the Specialist Training Authority. |
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Lay: Susanne Roff, an educationist with experience of designing
curricula for postgraduate medical education. |
Wales
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Medical: Dr Trevor Pickersgill - Specialist Registrar in Neurology;
Representative on BMA Junior Doctors Committee. |
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Lay: Susan Fox, Chair of Swansea Local Health Board, with particular
interest in the patient experience. |
Interim Chief Executive
Mr
Stuart Gray,
Chief Executive of the Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust is to act as the
Board's interim Chief Executive. Mr Gray will take up post with effect from 3rd
November. He has over 30 years experience in the NHS and has been a Chief
Executive for the past 18 years in a variety of Trusts and Health Authorities in
England, Wales and Scotland. He is also one of the founder lay members of the
Specialist Training Authority.
Appointment of members to the postgraduate medical education and training board
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