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Warwick
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Charity Reg No: 1048816
Company Reg No: 3090774

Chairman: Dr Jonathan Shapiro
MA (Cantab), MB, ChB, MRCGP

Board of Trustees

monica_photoChief Executive

Monica J Fletcher MSc, BSc (Hons), RGN, RSCN, HVdip, PGCE

Monica Fletcher has been in post as Chief Executive since February 2001. She was not a total stranger to the Charity having been associated with it from the early days as one of the first cohort of trainers appointed in 1989.  Monica is responsible for leading both the UK and US organizations and is supported by a well established managerial team.

Her previous post was Co-Director, Primary Care, NHS Executive, London.  In this post she was instrumental in the development of Primary Care Trusts and Walk in Centres at both a regional and national level and was responsible for developing and implementing primary care government health policies.

Monica has a clinical background in general adult nursing and paediatric health visiting and practice nursing.  She has worked extensively in inner city primary care in Birmingham and London.  She has held various senior management positions including Director of Primary Care in Tower Hamlets Community Trust, Health Authority Primary Care Advisor for Birmingham and East London and City and a Senior Lecturer in Primary Care in Birmingham.

In the UK she is a member of the BTS / SIGN Asthma Guidelines Review Group, a member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and a member of the Expert Review Group for MHRA, and is a past Council member for the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI).

Internationally she is a member of the US COPD Coalition, Chairman of the Primary Care Group of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and member of the European Lung Foundation (ELF).  Also as a member of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Nursing Assembly, sitting on both the long-term Planning Committee and the Programme Committee and a member of the ATS International Lung Health Committee.

jonathan_shapiro_photoChairman to the Board of Trustees

Dr Jonathan Shapiro MA (Cantab), MB, ChB, MRCGP

Dr Jonathan Shapiro is Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham. Jonathan has had a career that spans Natural Science, Medicine, and NHS management, all of which have had an academic flavour. His main qualifications and memberships are:

  • MB ChB Medicine, University of Birmingham (1977)
  • MA (Cantab) Medical Sciences (Natural Science) (1978)
  • Membership of the RCGP  (1982)
  • Chairman of the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust (2003-07)
  • Chairman of Education for Health (2008-)

Areas of special interest
With a background in primary care, Jonathan’s interests have centred on
a whole system approach to the analysis and improvement of
healthcare. In particular, his work looks at the organisational and
professional boundaries that obstruct the delivery of truly holistic
care.  Within this, particular areas of interest include:

  • The functions and role of primary care
  • The analysis and management of change
  • Definition and development of public sector leadership
  • The role of the public sector in the 21st century
  • Individual and corporate responsibility in health care.
  • The clinical/management interface
  • Development of appropriate research methodologies for the qualitative aspects of healthcare
  • The ‘anthropology’ of health care

Originally, Dr Shapiro worked within the NHS as a general practitioner for over ten years. When he left clinical medicine, he became the Independent Medical Adviser to an FHSA, and was involved in the development of the purchaser/provider split, and the involvement of clinicians in the running of the health service through initiatives such as GP fundholding and total purchasing, as well as the development of better primary care itself.

In 1993, Jonathan joined Birmingham University’s Health Services Management Centre where he co-ordinated much of the Centre’s work on the development of primary care and its place in the wider NHS.

In more recent years, Dr Shapiro was Chairman of the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust, through which he was closely involved in leading organisational development and the management of change, in areas including PFI, Foundation Trust development, and so on.

He recently left this post when he moved from HSMC to Birmingham University’s Medical School, where he is developing research and consultancy work looking at the management/clinical interface, and working to introduce the concepts of how the NHS works into the undergraduate medical curriculum. He now also chairs the international charity Education for Health.

As well as contributing to numerous conferences each year, Jonathan writes regularly and contributes to journals (both professional and scientific) and books as well as producing more in-depth reports of his work.  For some years he was Alberta Heritage Visiting Scientist and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada.

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Prof Neil Barnes FRCP

Neil Barnes is Consultant in respiratory and general medicine at Barts and the London NHS Trust and Professor of respiratory medicine at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. His main clinical interests are in asthma, in particular, severe and difficult asthma, COPD and plural disease. His research interests are in asthma and COPD, in particular, mechanisms, and investigation of novel treatments. He has published over 160 pre-review papers, book chapters, editorials and reviews. He has been associate editor for Thorax and is currently ch-chair of BTS/SIGN asthma guidelines.


Prof Jeremy DaleBoard Member

Prof Jeremy Dale PhD, MA, MB BS, FRCGP, DRCOG, DCH, MILT

Jeremy Dale studied medicine at Cambridge University and the Middlesex Hospital, London. Following GP vocational training in Oxford, he was appointed as a lecturer in primary care at King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, becoming a senior lecturer in 1992. While in London, he also worked as a part-time GP principal in a busy general practice in one of the most socially deprived parts of the city. In 1997, Jeremy was appointed Professor of Primary Care at Warwick. He is Director of the Centre of Primary Health Care Studies and Chairs the Division of Health in the Community at Warwick Medical School (comprises of primary care, public health and epidemiology, mental health, child health, emergency care and rehabilitation). He is also a part-time principal with the Engleton House Surgery in Coventry.

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Mr William George

William George comes with an accountancy background and has brought these disciplines into running companies over the last 35 years. These companies have all been involved with the Communication Industry and have included advertising and marketing agencies, printing and graphic design companies, and sales & marketing consultancies.

William is also a very keen cricketer having played club cricket for many, many years and although now retired from the actual playing side, is heavily involved in the running and administration of cricket throughout the County of Warwickshire and is a Committee Member of the Warwickshire Cricket Board. He also organises one of the Warwickshire Junior leagues while still finding time to be Vice Chairman of his own cricket club in Solihull.

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Dr Sandy Gupta MD, FRCP

Sandy Gupta has been Consultant Cardiologist at Whipps Cross and St Bartholomew's Hospitals, London, since 1999.He is a leading international figure in the research area of 'inflammation and heart disease'. Author of text books, numerous published papers, editorials and several book chapters.

His other main area of interest includes the 'role of ethnicity in coronary heart disease'. He is Chairman of the British Heart Foundation Strategy Committee on Heart Disease in Ethnic Minorities and Regional Patron of South Asian Health Foundation UK.

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Prof Tom Quinn MPhil, RN, FESC, FRCN

Professor Tom Quinn is Regional Lead for cardiovascular disease, stroke and research with the new West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust. He has extensive experience in cardiac care and combines his NHS work with responsibilities as Professor of Cardiac Nursing and Co-Director, Pre-hospital, Emergency and Cardiovascular Care Applied Research Group at Coventry University; www.coventry.ac.uk/phecc. He is also Clinical Lead for the Cardiovascular Diseases Specialist Library in the National Library for Health and the new Stroke Specialist Library.

He was a member of the team that developed the CHD NSF and has worked in a range of settings from the bedside to Strategic Health Authority and the Department of Health. He is a former Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology working group on cardiovascular nursing and chairs the Royal College of Nursing's Cardiovascular Network.

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Dr Theo Schofield OBE, MA, FRCP, FRCGP

Theo Schofield trained at Oxford University Medical School and has been a general practitioner in Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire since 1972. He has been in turn a Trainer, Regional Course Organizer and Associate Advisor in the Oxford Regional Vocational Training Scheme, and Lecturer in the Department of Primary Care, University of Oxford.

He has been closely involved in the development of teaching of communication skills for general practitioners and for medical students, and in research in doctor patient communication and shared decision making.  He is a member of the Board of the European Association for Communication in Healthcare.

He was the grant-holder for the Assist Trial of methods of implementing secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in primary care, which demonstrated the effectiveness of nurse run clinics. He was the Medical Advisor to Heartsave, a national training programme for practice nurses and other health care professionals to deliver evidence based care for patients with heart disease, which is now part of Education for Health.

He is a member of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and is Chair of their Quality Network. He led the development of Quality Team Development which is a multidisciplinary programme offering primary care teams and primary care organizations a framework to assess the quality of the services they provide for their patients.

He has published books and papers on communication, teamwork, and quality in primary care. In 2005 he was awarded the OBE for services to healthcare.

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Prof Sally Singh MCSP, PhD

Professor in Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, School of Health & Life Science, Coventry University and Consultant Clinical Scientist, Dept of  Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

Sally has been involved in research into the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation for 15 years.  More recently this has extended to cardiac rehabilitation.  She practices clinically within the dept of pulmonary rehabilitation.  She sits on the Research & Clinical effectiveness committee of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and is currently co-chair of the pulmonary rehabilitation section within the American Thoracic Society.

Prof Ala SzczepuraBoard Member

Prof Ala Szczepura BA, Dphil

Professor of Health Services Research, Warwick Medical School where she is lead on health technology assessment and also Director of the UK Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health & Diversity (CEEHD). For the last two decades her interests have been in policy research and economic evaluation of medical innovations. She is Chair of the Research and Academic Standards Committee for the Warwick-West Midlands Primary Care Research Network.