HL Deb 27 January 1997 vol 577 cc83-4WA
Baroness Macleod of Borve

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they will announce the designate membership of the first General Chiropractic Council.

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Baroness Cumberlege)

We are pleased to announce that the designate membership of the first General Chiropractic Council (GCC) is as follows:

Chairman (lay member):

Mrs. Norma F. Morris MA: visiting fellow at University College London currently engaged in research and consultancy in the field of science policy and research management.

Chiropractic members (all practising chiropractors):

Education members:

  • Mr. Alan Breen
  • Ms. Karen Flintoff
  • Mr. Timothy C. Jay
  • Mr. R. Brian Mouatt CBE BDS MGDSRCS

Lay members:

Mrs. Peaches Golding BA MCIM MIMgt: director of marketing and public relations company and regional co-ordinator of a Prince's Trust initiative to boost ethnic minority economic activity.

Mr. A. Robin Hodgson: retired Chief Executive of Hampshire County Council and qualified solicitor.

Lady Peston (Helen): voluntary worker with particular interest in people with disabilities and communication impairments.

Mrs. Linda J. Stone FRPharmS: community pharmacist and former President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

Professor Iain McCall FRCR: Professor of radiological science at the University of Keele, and consultant radiologist at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.

The Chairman and membership will meet shortly to begin the preliminary work of drawing up a business plan for the new GCC and the outline of the necessary structures for the administration of the statutory registration scheme for chiropractors. As soon as this preliminary work is complete, the first of the Commencement Orders will be made to bring the essential elements of the Chiropractors Act 1994 into force, and the members of the GCC will be formally appointed.