An Independent Review of Modernising Medical Careers led by Professor Sir John Tooke, DM, FRCP, FMedSci
John Tooke trained at Oxford and at King’s College Hospital Medical School and has held consultant posts at Charing Cross Hospital and in Exeter. He is Dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry and Professor of Vascular Medicine. He remains clinically active with interests in diabetes and vascular medicine as Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust where he was Clinical Director from 1991-1995.
He Chairs the Medical Schools Council (formerly CHMS) and the UK Health Education Advisory Committee.
From 1997 – 1999 he was Director of the Postgraduate Medical School in Exeter, and was a non-executive Director of the S W Peninsula Strategic health Authority from 2003-2006.
He served on the Academic Careers Sub-committee of MMC and UKCRC (the ‘Walport committee’) from 2004 – 2007 and was appointed Chair of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Clinical Academic Careers Committee in 2006. He resigned from both Committees when invited to assume the Chairmanship of the Inquiry.
Born in Iran and educated in the UK, Ms Ashtiany took an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Politics and a postgraduate degree in International Relations. She worked for the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and then the UN High Commission for Refugees after leaving University. During this period, she became increasingly interested in the legal, social and economic position of migrant workers in the UK and took some leave to research and write about this issue (her work being published as a Fabian Pamphlet entitled Britain’s Migrant Workers).
She subsequently trained as a solicitor, specialising in employment and anti-discrimination law and is now a partner with the city firm Nabarro where she heads the Employment Group. Her work predominantly consists of large-scale or complex issues, in particular change-management projects; cases involving difficult issues of employment and discrimination law and policy and strategic advice for public and private bodies. She has always been keenly interested in health care having worked with the Anglia and Oxford Regional Health Authority on issues ranging from the implementation of the Calman Report on medical education and staffing, to the North Oxfordshire review of health care. She was a non-executive director of the Oxfordshire Ambulance Trust for 10 years and acting Chair for two years 2001-2003.
She is a Commissioner with the Equal Opportunities Commission, a non-executive member of the board of Channel 4 Television Corporation and a member of the Court of Oxford Brookes University.
Sir David Carter is a graduate of St Andrews University and holds an MD from the University of Dundee. He is currently Chairman of The Health Foundation and of the Board for Academic Medicine (Scotland). He is a Trustee and Vice Chairman of Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) and chairs the Council Research Strategy Group. He was Vice Principal of Edinburgh University from 2000 – 2002 following his time as Chief Medical Officer in Scotland (1996-2000) and a surgical career during which he was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in Edinburgh (1988-1996) and St Mungo Professor of Surgery in Glasgow (1979-1988). He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and Faculty of Public Health Medicine. His surgical interests centred on hepato-biliary and pancreatic disease. He was Surgeon to Her Majesty The Queen from 1993-1997. . He has been President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (1996-97), Surgical Research Society (1996-97), and British Medical Association (2001-2). He was Chairman of the Scottish Council for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (1990-96) and a non-executive Director of Lothian Health Board (1994-96).
As Chairman of the Board for Academic Medicine he was aware of developments in MMC particularly in relation to Scotland.
Dr Allan Cole has been Medical Director of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust since its inception in 2000 and was previously Medical Director of Glenfield Hospital since 1993. He is a consultant anaesthetist who still undertakes a limited clinical and teaching practice. He is a past Chairman of the British Association of Medical Managers (BAMM) and board member of the Association of Trust Medical Directors. He is a member of the Medical Leaders Professional Council which is advising on the structures to develop the medical managers of the future. He is currently also a member of the Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee (IPAC) of NICE. In the past, he was a member of the Specialty Workforce Advisory Committee (SWAG) and has been a member of the Expert Group on Safety for the Health Care Commission.
As Medical Director of a large acute teaching hospital, he naturally has some local responsibility for aspects of medical staffing and medical education in the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and thus an interest in MMC. His perspective has been in ensuring that the service requirements of the Trust are fulfilled during the large changes involved in MMC.
Perhaps even more tenuously, he has a son who is a FY1 doctor.
Sir Jonathan Michael qualified from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in 1970. He underwent postgraduate medical training in London and the SE working at the Brompton, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. In 1980 he was appointed Consultant General Physician and Nephrologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. After spells as a Clinical Director he became Medical Director in 1993 and was appointed Chief Executive of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust in 1996. In 2000 he was appointed Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust leading them to first wave Foundation Trust status in 2004. Knighted in 2005 for services to the NHS, Sir Jonathan was Chairman of the Association of UK University Hospitals and Chairman of the NHS Foundation Trust Network until 2007 when he left the NHS after 37 years. As Chairman of the Association of University Hospitals, Sir Jonathan Michael was a member of the UK Advisory Board and the Delivery Board for England to provide a provider perspective on MMC.
General Practitioner and Associate Director –National Clinical Assessment service Professor Rashid graduated from the University of Manchester in 1982 and gained his MD from the University in 1995. He worked as an inner city GP in Leicester from 1986 to 1992 whilst developing his academic career and was awarded the first Research Training Fellowship by the RCGP in 1987. Since 1992 Professor Rashid has worked as a part-time Principal in a semi-rural practice in Leicestershire, combining this with senior posts within the Postgraduate Deanery in Leicestershire and a Chair in Primary Health Care at de Montfort University from 1998. In 2006 Professor Rashid left his Associate Postgraduate Dean post to take up a national role as Associate Director at the National Clinical assessment Service. From 1993–6 Professor Rashid was National Chair of the Education Network at the RCGP and Director of the successful RCGP National Leadership Programme 2002-5.
Professor Rashid has published widely in peer reviewed journals in the fields of General Practice and Primary Health Care and has examined students at Masters and Doctorate levels. He has contributed to and helped organise national and international academic and professional conferences or meetings, speaking on a broad range of topics including doctors performance, innovations in medical education and diversity in health care. Professor Rashid has extensive experience of Committee work contributing to service, education, research and ethics development.
As Associate Postgraduate Dean at the Leicestershire Northampton and Rutland Deanery Professor Rashid was not directly involved in the development or implementation of MMC but has been aware of its impact both in primary and secondary care on doctors, their education and the service.
Peter C. Smith is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. He is a mathematics graduate from the University of Oxford, and started his academic career in the public health department at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely on the financing and performance of health systems, and was founding editor of the journal Health Care Management Science. He has a special interest on the links between research evidence and policy. Professor Smith has served on numerous Department of Health advisory committees, and has advised several other UK ministries on finance and productivity issues. He is a board member of the Audit Commission, and chairs the advisory board of the ONS Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity. He has acted as consultant to many overseas ministries and international agencies, including the OECD, the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the World Bank.
Professor Tomlinson graduated in medicine in 1968 from Sheffield. He did his specialist training at the Middlesex Hospital, London, then research at MIT and as a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science back in Sheffield. In 1985 he became Professor of Medicine at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and was Dean of the Medical School and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing in the University of Manchester(1993-1999)
He became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales College of Medicine(UWCM) in August 2001. From 1 August 2004, following merger, he became Provost of the Wales College of Medicine, Biology, Life & Health Sciences and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University. In October 2006, he became Provost at Cardiff University. He has been a Consultant Physician in diabetes with the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust since 2001 and a non-executive Director of the Velindre NHS Trust since 2002.In 2002-03 he was President of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, having been Secretary then Treasurer(1988-98).He is currently Chairman of the Tropical Health and Education Trust(THET)and ASH Wales. Professor Tomlinson has been indirectly involved with MMC through training of SpRs and through his responsibilities for the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Studies of UWCM and Cardiff University. He has had no direct involvement with MTAS nor with the planning and organisation of MMC.
The Chief Operating Officer for the Secretariat is Dr Katie Petty-Saphon who has been seconded from her position as Executive Director of the Medical Schools Council (formerly CHMS) of the Council of Heads and Deans of Dental Schools and of the Association of UK University Hospitals. Dr Petty-Saphon is a former Governor of the University of Hertfordshire and a former Vice Chair of Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. She is a Trustee of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and an Associate of Newnham College Cambridge. As Director of CHMS she has attended meetings of the MMC Delivery Board and of the Foundation School Directors.