04 October 2011

Lords save us

Here is the text of an open letter to the Lords from nearly 400 doctors:

Dear Honourable Members of the House of Lords,

As public health doctors and specialists from within the NHS, academia and elsewhere, we write to express our concerns about the Health and Social Care Bill.

The Bill will do irreparable harm to the NHS, to individual patients and to society as a whole.

It ushers in a significantly heightened degree of commercialisation and marketisation that will fragment patient care; aggravate risks to individual patient safety; erode medical ethics and trust within the health system; widen health inequalities; waste much money on attempts to regulate and manage competition; and undermine the ability of the health system to respond effectively and efficiently to communicable disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies.

While we welcome the emphasis placed on establishing a closer working relationship between public health and local government, the proposed reforms as a whole will disrupt, fragment and weaken the country’s public health capabilities.

The government claims that the reforms have the backing of the health professions. They do not. Neither do they have the general support of the public.

It is our professional judgement that the Health and Social Care Bill will erode the NHS’s ethical and cooperative foundations and that it will not deliver efficiency, quality, fairness or choice.

We therefore request that you reject passage of the Health and Social Care Bill.



Jo Abbott
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Rotherham

Dr Sushma Acquilla
International Faculty Advisor, UK Faculty of Public Health and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London

Dr John Acres
Head of the School of Public Health, Wessex Deanery

Dr Mayada Abu Affan
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Dudley PCT

Dr Nicholas Aigbogun
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Health Protection Agency West Midlands

Professor Priscilla Alderson
Professor Emerita of Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

Dr Rob Aldridge
Academic Clinical Fellow (Public Health), University College London

Dr Kirsty Alexander
Public Health Directorate, Gloucestershire PCT

Martin Allaby
NHS Consultant in Public Health

Ben Anderson MPH, MFPH
Acting Consultant in Public Health, NHS Sheffield

Dr Elspeth Anwar
Public Health Registrar, Mersey Deanery

Dr Ike Anya
Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Charlotte Ashton
Public Health Specialty Registrar in London

Professor John R Ashton, CBE
Director of Public Health, Cumbria

Matthew Ashton
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Knowsley

Dr Esther Aspinall
Specialist Registrar in Public Health, West of Scotland

Dr Daphne Austin
Chair of the UK Commissioning Public Health Network

Dr Ishraga Awad
Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Dr Sallie Bacon
Associate Director of Public Health, Hampshire

Dr M R Bahl
Consultant in Public Health & Communicable Disease Control (retired)

Dr Simon Balmer
Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Dr Helen Barratt
Research Training Fellow/ Public Health Specialist Registrar, University College London

Prof Mel Bartley
Director of the ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies, University College London

Dr Subhashis Basu
Specialist Registrar in Public Health and Accident & Emergency, NHS Rotherham and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Alison Bell
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Wiltshire

Dr Paul Batchelor
Consultant in Dental Public Health, Thames Valley and Senior Lecturer, UCL

Dr John Battersby
Medical Director, Eastern Region Public Health Observatory

Jackie Beavington
Associate Director of Public Health

Dr Charles R Beck
Specialty Registrar in Public Health

Jane Beenstock
Specialty Registrar, NHS County Durham and NHS Darlington

Dr Ruth Bell
Clinical Senior Lecturer/Honorary NHS Consultant in Public Health, Newcastle University

Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, University of Bristol

Helen Bewsher
Public Health Intelligence Specialist, NHS Kirklees

Dr Sohail Bhatti
Interim Director of Public Health Medicine, NHS East Lancashire

Professor Raj Bhopal CBE
Professor of Public Health, University of Edinburgh

Amy Bird
Specialty Registrar Public Health, London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex

Dr Christopher A Birt
Senior Research Fellow / NHS Public Health Physician, Liverpool

Andrew Boddy
Director (retired), Public Health Research Unit, University of Glasgow

Sarah Bowman
Specialty Registrar Public Health, NHS Tees

Dr Ian Brown
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Hertfordshire

Dr Claire Bradford
NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Dr Fiona Bragg
Specialty Registrar Public Health

Professor Carol Brayne
Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Cambridge

Professor John Britton
Professor of Epidemiology, University of Nottingham

Dr Helen Bromley
Division of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool

Jilla Burgess-Allen
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Derbyshire County PCT

Julia Burrows
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Bradford and Airedale

Dr Jenny Bywaters
Senior Public Mental Health Adviser, Department of Health (retired)

Dr Nigel Calvert
Associate Director of Public Health, NHS Cumbria

Dr Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante
Consultant in Public Health Medicine and Head of School of Public Health

Professor Simon Capewell
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Liverpool

Professor Francesco P Cappuccio
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology, Warwick Medical School

Dr Robin Carlisle
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Rotherham,

Dr Marie Casey
Specialty Registrar in Public Health

Dr Jacky Chambers
Director of Public Health, Heart of Birmingham tPCT

Dr Jennifer Champion
Acting Consultant in Public Health, NHS Forth Valley

Dr David Chappel
Assistant Director, North East Public Health Observatory

Hannah Chellaswamy
Deputy Director of Public Health, NHS Sefton & Training Programme Director, Cheshire & Merseyside, NW School of Public Health

Professor Aileen Clarke
Professor of Public Health & Health Services Research, Warwick Medical School

Professor Stephen Clift
Professor of Health Education, Canterbury Christ Church University

Dr RA Coates
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Southampton City PCT

Prof Michel P Coleman
Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Katherine Conlon
Speciality Registrar in Public Health, NHS South Gloucestershire

David Conrad
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Knowsley PCT

Dr Joanna Copping
NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Dr Gary Cook
Consultant Epidemiologist, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Derek Cook
Professor of Epidemiology, St George's, University of London

Dr Emer Coffey
Consultant in Public Health, Liverpool PCT

Ellen Cooper
Public Health Specialist, NHS Stockport

Mary Corcoran
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Nottinghamshire County

Jonathan Cox
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Norwich Medical School

Maureen Crawford
Director of Public Health, Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust/Sunderland City Council

Dr Tricia Cresswell
Consultant in Health Protection, Health Protection Agency/Deputy Medical Director, NHS North East

Dr James R Crick
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Yorkshire and Humber Deanery

Denis Cronin
Public Health Consultant, NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Professor Ann Crosland
Professor of Nursing and Public Health Lead, University of Sunderland

Dr Elizabeth Crowe
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, SE Scotland

Dr June Crown, OBE
Former President, United Kingdom Faculty of Public Health

Professor Steven Cummins
Professor of Urban Health & NIHR Senior Fellow, Queen Mary University of London

Sarah Cuthberson
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, South Yorkshire Health Protection Unit

Dr Fiona Day
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Sheffield PCT

Valerie Delpech
Consultant Epidemiologist Health Protection Agency

Prof Elaine Denny
Professor of Health Sociology, Birmingham City University

Martin Dockrell
Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health

Dr Hiten Dodhia
NHS Public Health Consultant, Lambeth PCT

Professor Danny Dorling
Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield

Dr Flora Douglas
Lecturer in Health Promotion, University of Aberdeen/NHS Grampian

Dr Peter Draper
Freelance health policy analyst

Dr Julian Elston
Consultant in Public Health, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT

Barry Evans
Consultant Epidemiologist

Professor David Evans
Professor in Health Services Research, University of the West of England

Dr Jamie Fagg
Research Associate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL Institute of Child Health

Andrea Fallon
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Oldham

Dr Tracey Farragher
Senior Research Fellow, Academic Unit of Public Health, University of Leeds

Dr Jill Farrington
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Calderdale

Greg Fell
Consultant in Public Health, NHS

Natalie Field
Public Health Consultant, South Gloucestershire

Dr Richard Fielding
Professor of Medical Psychology in Public Health, University of Hong Kong

Dr Tim Fielding
Public Health Registrar

Dr Alastair Fischer
Health Economist, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

Paul Fisher
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, West Midlands East Health Protection Unit

Dr Julian Flowers
Director, East of England Regional Public Health Observatory

Dr Alison Forrester
Clinical Advisor to NHS North Yorkshire and York

Kirsten Foster
Health Improvement Practitioner Advanced, Kirklees PCT

Dr David Foxcroft
Professor of Community Psychology and Public Health, Oxford Brookes University

Sue Frossell
Consultant in Public Health (Health Protection and Improvement), NHS Milton Keynes

Dr Tom Fryers
Hon. Professor of Public Mental Health, University of Leicester

Dr Alison Furey
Independent Public Health Consultant

John Gabbay
Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton

Dr Linda Garvican
QA Director, Cancer Screening Programmes, NHS South East Coast
Dr Alexander Gatherer
Former Director of Public Health, Oxford

Dr Katie Geary
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Health Protection Agency East Midlands

Dr Ivan Gee
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University

Dr Steve George
Reader in Public Health, University of Southampton

Dr Daniel Gibbons
NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health, Imperial College London

Professor Ruth Gilbert
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Child Health, University College London - Institute of Child Health

Professor Anna Gilmore
Professor of Public Health, University of Bath

Dr Suzanne Gilman
Public Health Speciality Registrar, NHS Central Lancashire

Dr Michelle Gillies
Specialist Registrar Public Health and Clinical Lecturer Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Dr Jay Ginn
Visiting Professor, Institute of Gerontology, Kings College London

Professor Michael Goldacre
Professor of Public Health, University of Oxford

Chris Godfrey
Consultant in Public Health, Solihull Primary Care Trust

Sara Godward
Locum Consultant in Public Health

Dr Paula Grey
Joint Director of Public Health, Liverpool PCT/Liverpool City Council

Professor Selena Grey
Professor of Public Health, University of the West of England

Dr Carl Griffin
NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Professor Rod Griffiths CBE
Former President, Faculty of Public Health

Sarah Johnson Griffiths
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Western Cheshire

Professor Sian Griffiths, OBE
Former President of the Faculty of Public Health

Rachael Gosling
Locum Consultant in Public Health, Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust

Dr Hilary Guite
Director Public Health and Well-being, NHS Greenwich

Dr Fay Haffenden
Consultant in Public Health Children & Health Inequalities, NHS Cambridgeshire

Professor Sir Andy Haines
Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Jennifer Hall
Public Health Specialty Registrar, London

Tom Hall
Specialty Registrar in Public Health

Mr John Hampson
Public Health Specialist, NHS Western Cheshire

Wendy Hannon
Public Health Commissioning Manager, Plymouth PCT

Dr Maggie Harding
NHS Consultant in Public Health (Medicine)

Dr Andrew Harmer
Honorary Lecturer in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Ruth Harrell
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, West Midlands

Lynda Harris
Director of Public Health, Wales

Dr Shamil Haroon
Public Health Registrar, Sandwell PCT

Professor Stephen Harrison
Honorary Professor of Social Policy, University of Manchester

Dr Wayne Harrison
Consultant in Public Health

Martin Hawkings
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS North Yorkshire and York

Hazel Henderson
Consultant in Public Health

Alan Higgins
Director of Public Health, Oldham

Dr Christine Hill
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Cambridge

Dr Christine E Hine
Head of School & Training Programme Director, SW Public Health Specialty Training Programme and Consultant in Public Health, NHS Bristol & NHS S Gloucs

Julie Hirst
Public Health Specialist, NHS Derbyshire County

Dr Sue Hogarth
Public Health Specialty Registrar, University College London

Dr Jason Horsley
Specialty Registrar in Public Health Medicine / Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Dr Anita Houghton
Consultant in Public Health, London

Professor Walter W Holland, CBE
LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics

Dr Peter Horby
Senior Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Julie Hotchkiss
NHS Consultant in Public Health, Wigan

Dr Rob Howard
NHS Public Health Specialty Registrar

Dr Jonathan Howell
Consultant in Public Health, West Midlands Specialised Commissioning Team

Clare Humphreys
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Yorkshire and the Humber

Professor David Hunter
Professor of Health Policy and Management, Durham University

Louise Hurst
Public Health Specialty Registrar, University College London

Dr Sandra Husbands
NHS Consultant Public Health Medicine

Dr Sabina Fatima Hussain
Specialist Registrar in Public Health

Jan Hutchinson
Director of Public Health

Paul Iggulden
Independent Public Health Specialist

Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu
Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency

Kathryn Ingold
Public Health Speciality Registrar, Leeds

Dr Maggie Ireland
North East Public Health Doctor

Dr Helene Irvine
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Richard Jarvis
Consultant in communicable disease control and public health medicine, NHS Merseyside

Charlotte Jeavons
Programme Leader, Public Health, University of Greenwich

Dr Anna Jones
Teaching fellow at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Margaret Jones
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Sefton

Lesley Jones
Deputy Director Public Health, NHS Bolton

Professor Frank Kee
UKCRC Centre of Excellence, Queens University Belfast

Dr Gifford Kerr
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Blackburn with Darwen

Dr Anuj Kapilashrami
Lecturer Global Public, University of Edinburgh

Dr S Vittal Katikireddi
Clinical Research Fellow, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit & Specialty Registrar in Public Health Medicine, NHS Lothian

Dr Marko Kerac
Specialty Registrar & Academic Clinical Fellow, Public Health

Dr Mark Lambert
NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Professor Tim Lang
School of Health Sciences, City University London

Dr Rajalakshmi Lakshman
Clinical Scientist and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge

Dr Bruce Laurence
Acting Director of Public Health for Derbyshire

David Lawrence
Consultant in Public Health, NHS SE London

Mike Leaf
Acting Director of Public Health, NHS North Lancashire

Ben Leaman
Specialist Public Health Registrar, Yorks & Humber

Dr Conan Leavey
Senior Lecturer Public Health, Liverpool John Moores University

Dr Joyce Leeson
Retired Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Manchester University

Dr Nicholas Leigh-Hunt
Public Health Registrar, NHS Leeds

Professor David Leon
Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Valerie A Little
Director of Public Health, Dudley

Mary Lyons
Public Health Specialist, NHS Central Lancashire

John Lucy
Associate Director of Public Health, Liverpool Primary Care Trust

Dr Helen Maguire
Health Protection Agency, London

Dr GJ MacArthur
Academic Public Health Training Fellow, University of Bristol

Professor Alison Macfarlane
Professor of Perinatal Health, City University London

Dr Frances MacGuire
Specialist Registrar, Public Health

Dr Paul Madill
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS South of Tyne and Wear

Dr Alexis Macherianakis
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Sandwell PCT

Shepherd Masara
Associate member of the Faculty of Public Health

Dr Mashbileg Maidrag
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Suffolk/Suffolk County Council

Alan Maryon-Davis
Hon Professor of Public Health, Kings College London and Immediate Past President of the UK Faculty of Public Health

Dr Christina Maslen
Clinical Effectiveness Lead, Public Health Directorate, NHS Bristol

Dr Rebecca Mason
Specialty Registrar (Public Health), Mersey Deanery

Sue Matthews
Public Health Specialty Registrar, Hertfordshire PCT

Dr Eleni Maunder
Retired Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, Bournemouth University

Janet Maxwell
Director of Public Health, NHS Berkshire West

Dr Melanie Maxwell
Associate Medical Director and Public Health Specialist, Wirral University Teaching Hospital

Dr Gerry McCartney
Public Health Consultant, NHS Health Scotland

David McConalogue
Speciality Registrar in Public Health

Dr David McCoy
Associate Director of Public Health and Consultant Public Health Medicine, Inner North West London PCT, NHS

Amy McCullough
Public Health Specialty Registrar

Professor James McEwen
Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Glasgow

Lynne McNiven
Public Health Consultant, Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Lincolnshire

Dr Sarah McNulty
Assistant Director of Public Health, Quality and Health Protection, NHS Knowsley

Professor Klim McPherson
Visiting Professor of Public Health Epidemiology, University of Oxford

Dr Jeff Mecaskey
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health

Elaine Michel
Interim Director of Public Health, NHS Tameside & Glossop

Professor Susan Michie
Professor of Health Psychology, University College London

Dr John Middleton
Senior NHS Director of Public Health

Dr May Moonan
Clinical Lecturer in Public Health Medicine and NICE Scholar/Specialty Registrar in Public Health, University of Liverpool

Professor Robert Moore
School of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool

Dr Gemma Morgan
Academic Public Health Training Fellow, University of Bristol

Maria Morgan
Lecturer in Dental Public Health, Cardiff University School of Dentistry

Dr Andrew Mortimore
Director of Public Health, Southampton

Dr Anna Morris
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Hampshire

Maggi Morris
Director of Public Health, Central Lancashire

Aldo Mussi
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Birmingham City University

Dr Bernadette Nazareth
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, HPA Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire

Professor Angus Nicoll, CBE
Former Director, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Health Protection Agency

Dr Rory O’Conor
Consultant in Public Health, Wakefield PCT & YHPHO

Claire O'Donnell
Clinical Effectiveness Specialist in Public Health, North West Specialised Commissioning Team

John O'Dowd
Consultant Public Health Physician (Child Health), NHS Scotland

Professor Eileen O’Keefe
Professor of Public Health, London Metropolitan University

Dr Donal O'Sullivan
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS South East London

Dr Ifeoma Onyia
Public Health Physician

James Lindley Owen
NHS Consultant in Public Health

Dr Kishor Padki
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS South West Essex

Dr Arun Patel
Associate Director of Public Health, South West Essex PCT

Dr Matthieu Pegorie
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Trafford

Dr David Pencheon
Director, NHS Sustainable Development Unit (England

Sarah Phillips
Public Health Intelligence Analyst, NHS South Gloucestershire

Professor Kate Pickett
Professor of Epidemiology, University of York

Dr Mary Pierce
Clinical Epidemiologist, MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing

Dr David Pitches
Locum Consultant in Public Health, NHS Walsall

Professor Tanja Pless-Mulloli
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University

Dr George Pollock
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

Professor Jennie Popay
Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Lancaster University

Dr Debora Price
Senior Lecturer, Gerontology, King's College London

Alison Pritchard
Consultant in Public Health, Derbyshire County PCT

Dr Angela E Raffle
Consultant in Public Health, Bristol

Professor Rosalind Raine
Professor of Health Care Evaluation, University College London

Thara Raj
NHS Public Health Manager

Dr Giri Rajaratnam
Deputy RDPH, East Midlands NHS

Professor Salman Rawaf
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Education, Imperial College London

Mr Abdul Razzaq
Joint Director of Public Health and Senior NHS Public Health Consultant

Dr Arif Rajpura
Director of Public Health, NHS Blackpool

Dr Boika Rechel
Clinical Lecturer in Public Health and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, University of East Anglia

Dr Paul Redgrave
Consultant Public Health

Professor Margaret Reid
Professor Emeritus, Public Health, University of Glasgow

Dr Mark Reilly
Assistant Director Public Health Intelligence, NHS Tees

Becky Reynolds
Speciality Registrar in Public Health, Yorkshire and Humber Deanery

Professor Jammi Rao
Visiting Professor in Public Health, Staffordshire University

Prof Jennifer Roberts
Prof Emeritus in Economics of Public Health, LSHTM

Dr Heather Roberts
Director of Postgraduate Education, School of Community Health Sciences, City Hospital, Nottingham

Professor Paul Roderick
Professor of Public Health, University of Southampton

Helen Ross
Hon Member of the Faculty of Public Health

David Ross
Consultant Public Health Medicine

Dr Eleanor Rutter
Public Health Specialist Registrar, NHS Sheffield

Prof Harry Rutter
Director, National Obesity Observatory

Dr Alison Rylands
Director of Public Health, North West Specialised Commissioning Team

Dr Vanessa Saliba
Public Health Specialty Registrar, Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Martin Schweiger
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, West Yorkshire Health Protection Unit

Dr Sonya Scott
Specialty Registrar in Public Health Medicine

Dr Alex Scott-Samuel
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, University of Liverpool

Dr Anjila Shah
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Sefton

Professor Prakash Shetty
Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Southampton University

Dr Mohit Sharma
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Oxford Deanery and University of Oxford

Dr Sally Sheard
Senior Lecturer in History of Medicine, University of Liverpool

Jessica Sheringham~
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, North London

Dr Khesh Sidhu
NHS Consultant in Public Health Medicine

Professor Peter Sims
Honorary Teaching Fellow, Peninsula Medical School

Dr Katherine Smith
Lecturer in Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh

Professor Alwyn Smith CBE
Past President, Faculty of Public Health

Dr Jenifer Smith
Director of Public Health and Chief Medical Advisor, Isle of Wight NHS PCT

Victoria Smith
Health Improvement Officer, Blaby District Council

Dr Tasmin Sommerfield
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Lanarkshire

Dr Rosamund Southgate
Public Health Specialty Registrar, Oxford Deanery

Dr Dan Seddon
NHS Public Health Consultant and Public Health Educator

Dr Ruth Stern
Honorary Visiting Fellow, London Metropolitan University

Dr Alex G Stewart
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Cheshire & Merseyside HealthProtection Unit

Professor Tony Stewart
Professor in Public Health / NHS Consultant in Public Health, Staffordshire University

Dr Alex Stirling
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Ljuba Stirzaker
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Cluster

Laura Stroud
Lecturer in Public Health, University of Leeds

Dr Graham Sutton
Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, Leeds

Professor Stephanie Taylor
Professor in Public Health and Primary Care, Queen Mary University of London

Dr David Taylor-Robinson
Clinical Lecturer in Public Health, University of Liverpool

Alison Tennant
Specialist in Pharmaceutical Public Health, NHS Dudley

Sarah Theaker
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Nottinghamshire County

Richard Thomson
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Newcastle University

Martin Tobin
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester

Dr Daniel Todkill
SpR in Public Health Medicine

Julie Tolhurst
Health Improvement Practitioner, Public Health Directorate, NHS Kirklees

Dr Caroline Tomes
Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Cambridgeshire

Dr John Tomlinson
Deputy DPH, NHS Nottinghamshire and FPH East Midlands Local Board Representative

Dr Paul S Turner
NHS Consultant in Public Health

Pat Turton
Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England

Linda Turner
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Sefton

Paul Turner
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Ashton, Leigh and Wigan

Ruth Twiggins
Head of Public Health: Health Inclusion Team, NHS Wakefield District

Louise Unsworth,
NHS Public Health Consultant, North East Public Health Observatory

Emily van de Venter
Public Health Speciality Registrar

Professor Edwin van Teijlingen
Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal Health School of Health & Social Care, Bournemouth University

Dr Marie-Noelle Vieu
Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health

Dr Rebecca Wagstaff
Deputy Director of Public Health, NHS Cumbria

Dr Andy Wakeman
Senior NHS Public Health Consultant

Alice Walsh
Deputy Director of Public Health, NHS Gloucestershire

Sue Wardle
Public Health Specialist, South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust

Professor Richard G Watt
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL

Dr Joanna Watson
Unemployed Public Health doctor, Leicester

Dr Helen Webster
Speciality Registrar in Public Health, West Midlands

Sarah Weld
Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Wiltshire

Dr Jane Wells
NHS Public Health Physician, Oxford

Professor Robert West
Director of Tobacco Research, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London

Dr Ben Wheeler
Research Fellow, European Centre for Environment & Human Health

Professor Peter Whincup
Professor of Epidemiology, University of London

Professor Martin White
Professor of Public Health, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University

Professor Margaret Whitehead
Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool

Dr Lisa Wilkins
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Oldham

Dr Ewan Wilkinson
NHS Public Health physician, Liverpool

Professor John Wilkinson
Professor of Public Health, Durham University

Professor Charles Wolfe
Professor of Public Health, King's College London

Dr Ingrid Wolfe
Child Public Health Research Fellow and Paediatrician

Dr Fiona Wright
Assistant Director of Public Health, Haringey

Huda Yusuf
Specialist Registrar Dental Public Health, North West & North Central London Primary Care Trusts

Dr Helen Zealley, OBE
Former Director of Public Health, NHS Lothian

Dr Rosemary Millar
Specialty Trainee in Public Health, NHS Tayside

Jay Succaram
Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare, University of West London

Dr Rachel C Thorpe
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Lanarkshire

Dr Celia Duff
Specialty Training Programme Director, East of England

Dominic Mellon
Specialty Registrar - Public Health, South West Public Health Training Programme

Helene Denness
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Babington Hospital

Dr Ayoola Oyinloye
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Swindon

Dr Ardiana Gjini
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Bristol and NHS North Somerset

Dr Hynek Pikhart
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, University College London

Dr Joshna Ahir
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, Yorkshire and The Humber

Dr Nora Pashayan
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Applied Health Research, University College London

Shaukat Ali
Public Health Specialist, Sandwell Primary Care Trust

Julie George
NIHR Doctoral Fellow, University College London

Dr Andy Liggins
Director of Public Health, Peterborough

Dr Tasmin Sommerfield
Consultant in Public Health, NHS Lanarkshire

Dr Rosemary Millar
Specialty Trainee in Public Health, NHS Tayside

Professor Eileen Kaner
Director of the Institute of Health and Society and Professor of Public Health Research, Newcastle University

Dr Alison McCallum
Director of Public Health and Health Policy, NHS Lothian

Dr Eleanor Hill
Public Health Specialist, Stockport PCT

Kevin Elliston
Interim Associate Director of Public Health and Visiting Professor in Public Health, NHS Plymouth

Dr Jo Williams
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Bristol

Dr Merav Kliner
SpR Public Health, Yorkshire and Humber

Jan van der Meulen
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Dr Lynne Hamilton
SpR in Public Health Medicine, Tayside NHS Board Public Health

Carl Mackie
Advanced Health Improvement Practitioner, Huddersfield

Veronica Killen
Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Northumbria University

Helen McAuslane
Public Health Specialty Registrar, Leeds

Anna Middlemiss
Specialty Registrar in Public Health

Elisabeth Smart
Consultant in Public Health, Dumfries

Dr Jane Bethea
Specialty Registrar in Public Health

Rachel Sokal
Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Derbyshire County

Lucy Douglas-Pannett
Public Health Specialty Registrar, NHS Leicester City

Dr Sakthi Karunanithi
Specialist Registrar in Public Health, NHS North Lancashire/NHS North West

Dr Brijender Rana
Consultant Public Health, SEC Specialised Commissioning Group

Dr Pratibha Datta
Consultant in Public Health, Outer North East London (ONEL)

Dr Jennifer Mindell
Clinical Senior Lecturer, University College London

Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi
Specialist Registrar in Public Health, London

Jo Peden
Public Health Specialty Registrar, South West (North) Health Protection Unit

Dr Imogen Stephens
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Solutions for Public Health, Oxford

Stephen Turnbull
Assistant Director of Public Health, NHS Barnsley / Barnsley MBC

Jonathan Gribbin
NHS Consultant in Public Health

Dr Kate Ardern
NHS Senior Public Health Consultant

Catherine Chiang
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Olusola Aruna
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, NHS Gloucestershire

Professor Ian Watt
Professor of Primary and Community Care/Hull York Medical School

Dr Nigel Field
Academic Clinical Lecturer, University College London

Dan Seddon
NHS Halton and St Helens / Merseyside and Cheshire Cancer Network

Gaynor Scholefield
Public Health Manager, NHS Calderdale

Prof. Rod Thomson
Director of Public Health, Shropshire County PCT

Dr Katherine Russell
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS North Central London

Dr Angela Bhan
Director of Public Health, Managing Director - Bromley BSU

Abigail Knight
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Camden

Dr Lucy Reynolds
Consultant Paediatrician, Maternal and Child Public Health Team, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Dr Tim Daniel
Consultant in Public Health

Dr Julian Mallinson
Consultant

Dr Mike McHugh
Consultant in Public Health

Glenda Augustine
Specialist Trainee in Public Health

Sue Weaver
Public Health Manager, NHS Gloucestershire

Dr Stephen Watkins
Director of Public Health, NHS Stockport

Dr Sian Williams
Consultant in Occupational Medicine, London

7 comments:

Brambo said...

A superb letter and it was good to hear the politicians squirming in response to it. Professor Steve Field should be ashamed of his involvement with this cynical and ultimately destructive Bill.

Anonymous said...

Lansley dismissed this letter as "politically motivated". Moron. He wil end up being hated more than Hewitt ().

Anonymous said...

It seems your efforts are paying off Dr Grumble;

Bahrain grants medics retrial

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15191645

Dr Grumble said...

Fantastic. All we need now is for Lansley to see sense ;-)

Anonymous said...

I like it when you are optimistic like that

Way to go ;-D

Anonymous said...

Did they get you:


المهنالمهنيين الطبيين في العالم يطالبون باسقاط الفوري التهم ضد الأطباء في البحرين - *العريضة*** د. فاطمة البلوشي القائمة باعمال وزارة الصحة مبنى 1228 شارع 4025 الجفير 340 صندوق البريد 12 مملكة البحرين Minister@health.gov.bh *ال...
2 hours ago

Dr Grumble said...

Not as sinister as it may seem anon. A post in Arabic that I deleted because it just didn't quite work (owing to my extremely poor knowledge of written Arabic).