London Health Commission: Theme B: Ms Emily Holzhausen, Mr Roy Lilley, Ms Susan Edgman Levitan
The London Health Commission is an independent inquiry established in September 2013 by the Mayor of London. The Commission is chaired by Professor the Lord Darzi and reports directly to the Mayor. The Commission is examining how London's health and healthcare can be improved for the benefit of the population.
As part of the Call for Evidence we held four successful evidence hearing sessions in public on 20 and 27 January 2014. These sessions featured a range of expert figures from the UK and abroad giving evidence to a panel of Commission members, chaired by Lord Darzi.
Evidence was given in four broad themes:
A - Improving the quality and integration of care
- Right Honourable Stephen Dorrell MP, Chair, Health Select Committee
- Dr Shelley Dolan, Chief Nurse, The Royal Marsden Hospital
- Dr Geraldine Walters, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Tony Rudd, Professor of Stroke Medicine, Consultant Stroke Physician, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust / King's College London
- Mr David Palmer, Chief Executive, MIND in Bexley
- Mr Daniel Cartwright, Chief Executive, MIND in Brent
- Ms Carol Fenton, General Manager, London, Anglia & South East region, Macmillan
- Professor Tom Lee, Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health
- Dr Michelle Drage, Chief Executive, London-wide Local Medical Committees
- Dr Onkar Sahota, GP and Assembly Member for Ealing and Hillingdon
- Dr Nav Chana, Dean of General Practice and Community Based Education, London Deanery
- Ms Merav Dover, Chief Officer, Southwark and Lambeth Integrated Care
- Mr Daniel Elkeles, Chief Officer, CWHHE Clinical Commissioning Groups Collaborative
B - Enabling high quality and integrated care delivery
- Ms Candace Imison, Deputy Director of Policy, King's Fund
- Mr Richard Blakeway, Deputy Mayor for Housing, Land and Property, Greater London Authority
- Mr Simon Holden, Chief Executive, NHS Property Services
- Mr Tony Griffiths, London Regional Director, NHS Property Services
- Mr Tim Kelsey, National Director of Patients and Information, NHS England
- Dr Julia Riley, Palliative Care Consultant at the Royal Marsden & Royal Brompton Palliative Care Service
- Dr Paul Wicks, Vice President of Innovation, Patientslikeme
- Professor Paul Corrigan, Independent Management Consultant
- Ms Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK
- Mr Roy Lilley, Chair, People's Inquiry London
- Ms Susan Edgman-Levitan, Executive Director, Stoeckle Centre for Primary Care Innovation, Massachusetts
- Ms Catherine Davies, Executive Director of Cooperation and Competition, Monitor
- Mr George Fielding, Chair of Kidz Board, Whizz-kidz
C - Healthy lives and reducing health inequalities
- Mr Henry Dimbleby, Founder of Leon Restaurants
- Mr Gareth Jones, Vice President and General Manager, Fitbit
- Baroness Sally Greengross
- Ms Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder and Director of Kids Company
- Ms Poppy Jaman, Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health First Aid England
- Ms Sheila Mitchell, Marketing Director, Public Health England
- Sir Peter Hendy, Commissioner, Transport for London
- Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, Chair in Health Policy, Imperial College London
- Dr Agis Tsouros, Director of Division, Policy and Governance for Health and Wellbeing, World Health Organisation
- Dr Jo Ivey Boufford, President, The New York Academy of Medicine
D - Health economy, research and education
- Dr Bina Rawal, Research, Medical and Innovation Director at The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
- Dr Eliot Forster, Interim Chief Executive, MedCity and CEO of Creabilis
- Dr Robert Winter, Managing Director, Eastern Academic Health Science Network
- Professor Gary Ford, Chief Executive, Oxford Academic Health Science Network
- Mr Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor for Business and Enterprise, Greater London Authority
- Ms Mairi Johnson, Executive Director, Healthbox Europe
- Professor Sir John Tooke, Vice Provost (Health) at University College London and Academic Director at UCL Partners
- Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Full details of these sessions, including transcripts, are available on our website: london.gov.uk/london-health-commission