§ Baroness Jegerasked Her Majesty's Government:
Who were the members of the London implementation group on hospitals; what were their qualifications and how they were appointed.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Baroness Cumberlege)The specialty review team members were chosen by the London implementation group after consulting the chief medical officer, the chief nursing officer and the medical and nursing professional organisations. The chairman of each team is an eminent clinician in the relevant specialty, from outside London. The teams also included a senior London purchaser, general practitioners, nurses, other clinicians, therapists and patient representatives. Details of the members of each of the six specialty review teams are as follows:
Cardiac
Professor Geoffrey Smith, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield (Chairman)
Mr. John James, Kensington Chelsea and Westminster Commissioning Agency
Professor Keith Fox, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Dr. Andrew MacLeod, Poole Hospital NHS Trust
Mr. John Bailey, Glenfield Unit, Leicester
Dr. Ewen Bramwell, GP, Dorking
Dr. Don Bethune, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
Ms Ann Townsend, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
Professor Martin Buxton, Brunel University
Sir Richard Lloyd, British Heart Foundation
Neurosciences
Mr. Thomas Hide, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow (Chairman)
Ms Victoria Hardman, Bloomsbury and Islington Health Authority
Professor Alastair Compston, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Dr. Cicely Partridge, Kings College, London
Ms Kate Newlands, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Ms Mary Baker, Parkinson's Disease Society
Dr. Colin Smith, GP, Rochester
Plastics and Burns
Mr. Philip Sykes, St. Lawrence's Hospital, Chepstow (Chairman)
Ms Mary Whitty, Brent and Harrow Health Authority
Mr. John H. James, Shotley Bridge Hospital, Durham
Mr. Douglas Murray, Wardsley Hospital, Stourbridge
Dr. Tom Davies, GP, Peterborough
Sir Geoffrey Slaney, lately University of Birmingham
Mrs. Anne Driver, Leicester Royal Infirmary
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Professor Netar Mallick, Manchester Royal Infirmary (Chairman)
Mr. Peter Coe, Tower Hamlets Health Authority
Dr. Mary McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast
Dr. Andrew Williams, Swansea Hospital
Professor Denis Pereira Gray, Exeter University
Mr. James Wellbeloved, lately National Kidney Research Fund
Dr. John Evans, United Kingdom Transplant Support Services Authority
Mrs. Linda Whitworth, Manchester Royal Infirmary Professor David Kerr, Royal Postgraduate Medical School
Professor J. R. Salaman, Royal Infirmary, Cardiff Dr. Geoffrey Maidment, King Edwards VII Hospital, Windsor
Mr. Jonathan Stopes-Roe, City and East London Health Authority
Cancer
Dr. Christopher Paine, Royal College of Radiologists (Chairman)
Mr. Michael Bellamy, Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Commissioning Agency
Professor Stanley Kaye, University of Glasgow
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Dr. Hugh Sanderson, National Case Mix, Wessex RHA
Mrs. Gill Oliver, Clatterbridge Hospital, The Wirral
Dr. Elizabeth Murray, GP, London
Professor Mark Baker, Yorkshire RHA
Ms Loretta Tinckham, Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund
Dr. Graham Thorpe, Countess Mountbatten Hospital, Southampton
Children's Specialist Services
Professor Sir David Hull, University Hospital Nottingham (Chairman)
Mr. Martin Roberts, Wandsworth Health Authority
Dr. Roderick MacFaul, Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield
Mrs. A. M. Craft, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
Lady Jean Lovell Davies, Caring For Sick Children in the Health Services
Dr. Robert Cooper, Solihull Health Authority
Dr. John Oldham, GP, Glossop, Derbyshire
Professor David Lloyd, Institute of Child Health, Liverpool
Ms Zarrina Kurtz, South West Thames Regional Health Authority
Dr. Peter Morris, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland