QResearch Advisory Board In Detail
Antony Chuter
Antony Chuter is passionate
about improving healthcare for all in the UK. He has lived with chronic pain
for over 22 years and he is especially interested in patient safety and
also E-Health. He chairs the Patient Liaison Committee at the British Pain
Society, is chair of Pain UK; a charity which works to improve the support and
care of people who live with pain and he is a past chair of the Patient
Partnership Group at the RCGP.
Antony is an experienced
lay co applicant - having worked on more than 6 national projects. He believes
that healthcare research is the way to make substantial change in patient
safety, care and experience of healthcare in the UK and beyond.’
Competing Interests: none
Dr Patricia WiIkie
Patricia Wilkie is a social scientist particularly interested in
the patient perspective. She is Chair and honorary president of the National Association for Patient Participation. She has spent much of her working life as a researcher
in academic departments of medicine. Research topics included the ethical,
social and psychological implications of genetic disease, of HIV and Aids and
aspects of changes in prescribing. Patricia helped establish the National
Childbirth Trust in Scotland and has worked with many voluntary organisations
including the Huntington Chorea Association and the Patients Association.
Patricia
established patient groups in several Medical Royal Colleges and was the first
lay co-opted member on the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and chairman of
their lay committee. She has chaired a research ethics committee, has been a
lay associate at the GMC, and is an assistant editor of Quality in Primary Care. She
was one of the first of two lay members of the Committee on Safety for
Medicines and chaired the working group on patient reporting of adverse drug
reactions.
Competing Interests: none
Mr John Ford
Jonathan (Jon)
Ford is a retired economist. He 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 retired as head
of its Health Policy and Economic Research Unit (HPERU) in 2013. A specialist
in Labour Economics originally, his interests now include Health Economics,
Resource Allocation and Health and Social Policy.
Competing Interests: None.
Dr Mike Walton
Mike is a Trustee of the EMIS National User Group and GP partner in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Mike is also a Board Member, CCIO (Chief Clinical Information Office) and Diabetes lead within his CCD (Heart Valley CCG). He also works regularly as a GP in his local Mental HealthTrust Learning Disability Service. In addion to his membership of the QResearch board he is a member of the following organisations:
Memberships:
- EMIS NUG Committee, EMIS NUG Conference Committee
- HSCIC e-Referral Service Advisory Board
- Board Member and CCIO, Herts Valleys CCG
- Chair of West Herts Pathology User Group
- Chair of West Herts Diabetes Clinical Network
- Chair of St Albans and Region EMIS Local User Group (STARLUG)
Dr Caroline
Mitchell
Dr Caroline
Mitchell MBChB MD FRCGP DRCOG PGCertMEd, Senior Clinical Lecturer:
Academic Unit of Primary Medical Care, University of Sheffield; GP Principal
Woodhouse Health Centre, Sheffield; RCGP Yorkshire and Humber Faculty
Board member; GP appraiser and trainer.
I have have
been a GP partner for over 20 years. In addition to this, I joined
the Academic Unit of primary Medical Care at the University of sheffield in
1993, initially as an undergraduate teacher. Following a successful application
for NHS Culyer funding, I set up a programme of research in Woodhouse
Health Centre in partnership with the university. My research interests
are in musculoskeletal medicine, management of depresion in primary care and I
have specific methodological expertise in the RCT evaluation of complex
interventions in primary care, qualitative research and the use of 'mixed
methods' in evaluation of service inovations in primary care.
I have sat on a
number of national and local health and research bodies, peer reviewed for the
HTA and SDO programmes and peer review for the BJGP. I joined the advisory
group for QReseach in 2011.
Competing
Interests: None
Dr Jonathan Meadows
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.
Competing
Interests: None.