Anne has worked in Public Health for nearly 20 years across London and the South East. Previous roles have included medical director of the National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group, Director of Public Health in Kent and Director of Public Health in South West London. Latterly Anne was Director of Public Health for London SHA before taking on her current post in August 2007. She lives in London with her partner and their daughter.
Robert Creighton is the founding Chief Executive of Ealing PCT in west London (since 2002). He is Chair of the London PCT Chief Executives’ Group and active in a wide range of national and London-wide initiatives. Previously he was Chief Executive of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust for six years (1995-2000), after which he spent a year working with the London Region and the NHS Confederation on broad policy issues, including the formation of PCTs and the negotiation of the new GMS contract. From 1988 to 1995 he was a senior civil servant in the Department of Health, which included two years as a Principal Private Secretary when Virginia Bottomley was Secretary of State. For the previous 16 years he worked in the education sector, firstly as a teacher and then as a senior manager in the headquarters of an internal education charity.
John has twenty years experience operating successfully in the UK and within Europe to deliver policy and legislation change, profile raising, repositioning and the management of complex behaviour change programmes.
John has worked within the European Institutions for the Commission and Parliament; he has also held senior positions in a number of trade associations in Brussels and London. He worked within the Department of Health where he set up the Social Marketing Development Unit; latterly he has been responsible for developing and implementing a number of national clinical strategies.
His specialist skills include devising, securing support for and executing integrated public relations, marketing and communication strategies using segmentation and customer insight techniques. He has also managed substantial teams of diverse staff and has held key corporate leadership roles where he has led substantial change programmes.
Roger Boyle qualified from The London Hospital in 1972 and trained in cardiology in London, Manchester and Leeds.
He was appointed in 1983 as consultant cardiologist in York where he was Clinical Director and General Manager.
Roger Boyle has been a member of the Council of the British Cardiac Society since 1991 and was formerly Chairman of the Specialty Advisory Committee for training in Cardiology.
He was appointed as National Director for Heart Disease in March 2000 and has led the implementation of the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease.
He was appointed to lead the development of a national strategy for stroke in February 2006.
He is Chairman of the Vascular Topics Consideration Panel for NICE and is a member of the Referral Oversight Group at the Department of Health.
Professor Steve Field took up the position of RCGP Chairman in November 2007 and has led the RCGP through Lord Darzi’ s Review of the NHS, successfully promoting the RCGP ‘ federated’ model of patient care – with GP practices working together to provide more services for patients in their local communities – as a workable alternative to polyclinics. As Chair of the RCGP Education Network he led the College’ s radical review of GP training which led to the introduction of the first ever training curriculum for GPs in August 2007.
A practising GP in inner-city Birmingham, Professor Field is Honorary Professor of Medical Education, University of Warwick, and Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine, University of Birmingham.
He is a Member of the Faculty of the Harvard Macy Institute program for leading innovation in healthcare and education, and is co-author of The Future Direction of General Practice: A Roadmap and its follow-up Primary Care Federations: Putting Patients First, published in June 2008.
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