HC Deb 31 January 1996 vol 270 c812W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he is yet in a position to announce the membership of the first General Osteopathic Council. [13369]

Mr. Dorrell

I am pleased to announce the membership designate of the first General Osteopathic Council is as followsChairman (lay member): Mr. Simon Fielding OBE: Current Chairman of the General Council and Register of Osteopaths Osteopathic members (all practising osteopaths)

  • Dr. John G. Armitstead, MA, MRCP (UK) DO
  • Mr. John B. Barkworth, DO
  • Miss Susan Farwell, DO
  • Mr. Gerry Gajadharsingh DO
  • Mr. Maurice Hills DO
  • Mrs. Jane Langer DO
  • Mr. John Lant DO
  • Mr. Graham Mason DO
  • Mrs. Susan Pawsey MSc DO
  • Mr. John Roberts MSc DO
  • Mr. Philip Tanswell DO
  • Mr. Nicholas Woodhead DO
Education members
  • Mr. Jonathan Hobbs DO
  • Mr. Gregory Sharp DO
  • Miss Sarah Wallace DO
  • Dr. Briaan Jolly BSc, MA(Ed), PhD
 Lay members
  • Mr. T. Nigel Clarke BA(Hons): Director, GLW Government Relations, and Chairman Notiondouble Ltd.
  • Mr. Alan Kershaw BA(Hons) MA: Assistant Registrar, General Medical Council
  • Mrs.Rita Lewis MSc(Econs): Health Policy Consultant/Lecturer, Member of UKCC
  • Mr. David Phillips OBE, BDS: Dental Director and Secretary, The Medical Protection Society Ltd.
  • Mrs. Elizabeth Southey: National Chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes
  • Mrs. Deborah Todman LLB(Hons) MRAD: Barrister
  • Mr. Alan Lettin BSc., MS, FRCS: Vice President, Royal College of Surgeons (England)
  • Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.

The chairman and membership will meet shortly to begin the preliminary work of drawing up a business plan for the new GOsC and the outline of the necessary structures for the administration of the statutory registration scheme for osteopaths. As soon as this preliminary work is complete, the first of the commencement orders will be made to bring the essential elements of the Osteopaths Act into force—including the formal appointment of the GOsC by the Privy Council.