Advisory Board In Detail
GP In Finchley, London. Member of the Joint Committee for Postgraduate Training in General Practice. GPC negotiator.
Conflicting Interests: None.
Ms Patricia Wilkie
In various roles, I have represented patients’ interests for over fifteen years. Firstly as a member of a CHC and other voluntary organisations; now as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of a Hospital Trust. I have been a member of the Patient Partnership Group for seven years, taking over Chairmanship last November.
Conflicting Interests: Non-Executive Director Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust.
GP in market town; secretary of EMIS NUG; helped set up Keele’s General Practice Research Network; Clinical Advisor for PRIMIS; worked on GP2GP project; member of clinical validation team with EMIS; interest in Data Quality & use of electronic consultation records.
Conflicting Interests: Work for PRIMIS & act as consultant for Keele’s General Practice Research Network on occasions.
Jonathan (Jon) Ford was educated at Colfe’s School and the University of Kent. After working in econometrics in the electricity supply industry, he joined the British Medical Association (BMA) in 1976 as an Economic Research Officer and now heads its Health Policy and Economic Research Unit (HPERU). A specialist in Labour Economics originally, his interests now include Health Economics and Health and Social Policy.
Conflicting Interests: None.
(Anthony) John Fox is a British statistician, who has worked in both the public service and academia.
He was born on April 25 1946, the son of Fred Frank Fox OBE. He was educated at Dauntsey's School, University College London (BSc) and Imperial College London (PhD). He was a statistician at the Employment Medical Advisory Service, 1970-5 and then the Medical Statistics Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) until 1979. In the latter job, he helped to set up the England and Wales Longitudinal Survey, which monitors the health, address changes and fertility of a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales over time for statistical purposes.
During 1980-8, he was Professor of Social Statistics at City University, building up his department into one of the world's leading centres for social statistics. He returned to OPCS in 1988 as the United Kingdom Chief Medical Statistician. In 1990, he took on the additional post of visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
In 1996, following the creation of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) (into which OPCS was incorporated), cuts in the senior Civil Service meant that his responsibilities were widened to include demographic statistics and he became Director of the Census, Population and Health Group there. In 1999, he moved to the Department of Health as Director of Statistics. Due to further cuts in senior statistical posts in the Civil Service, he soon became the most senior government statistician outside the ONS.
In 2004, he was the "Change Manager" responsible for setting up the new Health and Social Care Information Centre, which officially came into existence on 1 April 2005. He was the Director of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement working with the Chief executive (Denise Lievesley).
John has published several books on mortality and health statistics.
Whilst John retired in June 2006, he is now:
- Visiting Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London offering strategic advice in the establishment of a new international research institute;
- strategy adviser to the Information Centre helping develop a strategy for working with the research community;
- providing strategic advice in a range of information projects
Conflicting Interests: None.
Graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 1999 with a BSC Hons in Business Information Systems and subsequently worked for a London based software house focusing on the design, development, implementation and administration of large scale, web based, SQL Server database systems. Joined QResearch in May 2004 bringing a wide range of both technical and non technical skills in software development and project management.
Conflicting Interests: None.
Julia Hippisley-Cox is Professor in Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice at the University of Nottingham. She trained in general practice and clinical epidemiology. She is a co-director of QRESEARCH database and is responsible for its design, implementation, validation, day to day running and for establishing and monitoring systems to make the data available for research and for health service analysis. Her main interest, though, is undertaking research using QRESEARCH and other data sources to answer questions regarding causes of disease, risks and benefits of treatments and patterns of health service usage. She works one day a week as a local General Practitioner in Nottingham.
Conflicting Interests: None.
I am Professor of Primary Care and Head of the Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine at Imperial College, London. I am also a part-time general practitioner in the Clapham area of London. My current research interests are in:
- chronic disease management, particularly cardiovascular disorders
- health policy and the organisation and delivery of health care
- the use of information for policy, planning and research
- developing innovative methodologies for primary care and public health research using clinical and administrative databases
Further information on my academic work is available at my website: www.azmaj.org
Conflicting Interests: None.
Born and schooled in Leicester, I graduated from Nottingham University in 1991, with a BMedSci, BM BS (Hons) in Medicine, and started my medical career in Cumbria. Thereafter, I worked within the Yorkshire region in Medicine and then Anaesthetics, until 1996. My interest in Information Technology then attracted me to leave Medicine for a time and complete an MSc in Information Processing at York University in 1997. I never resumed my medical career, but instead immediately secured a position within EMIS as Code Manager. I established a new Department of Coding and Drug Information, which operates as the central medical informatics service within EMIS. My special interest is in logical data modelling and database implementation.
Conflicting Interests: None.
John Williams is half time GP in Surrey, with MSc in health informatics, honorary research fellowship at University of Surrey Postgraduate Medical School, with main interests in evidence based practice and the use of GP data for research. He is Clinical Adviser to PRIMIS and also Informatics adviser to the Kent, Surrey, Sussex Postgraduate education GP Deanery. He is also currently Chair of the RCGP Health Informatics Standing Group and Co-chair of the GPC / RCGP Joint GP IT Committee.
Conflicting Interests: None.