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Julie Wood MIPD, MHSM, MSc

Julie Wood has worked in the NHS for nearly thirty years, the last sixteen of which she has spent in a variety of Director and Chief Executive roles. With extensive experience in planning and service development from a primary care perspective, Ms. Wood has also been responsible for the commissioning of acute care with locality responsibilities for a population of over 200,000. In a former Director role she was responsible for setting up one of the largest GP locality commissioning pilots in the country. She has had extensive training and development as a national trainer, presenter, and facilitator and in 2000 she completed a postgraduate Masters in Social Science - Health Care Policy & Management degree.

Her most recent role was as Chief Executive of a midlands Primary Care Trust. During that time Julie was the Chair of a large Cancer Network, of the health community Medicines Strategy group, and of the Choose & Book Board. Ms. Wood has recently taken up a new national role with the NHS Alliance as its Practice Based Commissioning (PBC) Federation, and Chief Executives Transformation Network (CET Net) Director.

Dr Warwick Hunt BMBS, DRCOG, MRCGP

Warwick Hunt has worked for over 25 years in the NHS, including 11 years as a general practitioner. He has also held several medical advisor and senior manager posts at FHSA, Health Authority and SHA level, where his main interest and expertise have been in helping clinicians and managers within a healthcare community to work together more effectively. Most recently, he was PEC Chair and Clinical Governor of Northamptonshire Heartlands PCT, one of the largest PCTs in the country before the 2006 NHS reorganisation.

Alongside his NHS role, Warwick has also worked for the last 10 years as an independent medical adviser to a number of healthcare strategy consulting firms. In this capacity he has specialised in the development of practical toolkits to support PCTs in the assessment and re-design of patient pathways, for instance, in response to the publication of NSFs and NICE guidance, and following the introduction of new drugs to the NHS.

Warwick is a skilled facilitator of small and large groups, and in 2006 he was one of the first cohort of doctors to take part in the British Association of Medical Managers “Fit to Lead” programme, achieving the Advanced Medical Leader award.

Dr Graham Box

Former business consultant turned academic, Graham has a Doctorate in policy responses to lifestyle illness. After several years lecturing at Oxford University, Graham joined a Berkshire PCT where he led on services for older people and on public involvement. He has maintained those interests in his free lance work over the last six years, which includes his role as Chief Executive for the National Association for Patient Participation. Graham is a frequent speaker on patient and public involvement in commissioning and believes that commissioning should be community- rather than practice-based.

Tim Jones

Tim Jones is a commissioner of NHS services in primary and secondary care with experience across the whole commissioning process from planning and service redesign through negotiation and contract development to implementation and performance monitoring. Tim currently works with a number of PCTs with a particular interest in market development and procurement. Most recently Tim has worked with a wide range of PCTs and GP-led organisations to get practice based commissioning up and running and continues to work as project lead for his local PBC collaborative ‘United Commissioning’ in Buckinghamshire. The rest of his time is spent advising a range of commercial clients on policy and market access.

During the past eight years he has been engaged in implementing a range of flagship initiatives including sexual health services, new contracts for GPs, community pharmacists and dentists; an independent sector treatment sector; new GP practices; prison health care and out of hours services for a population of 500,000. Tim joined the NHS in 1994. His NHS career includes three years as policy manager in the newly formed (1998) NHS Confederation. As the first appointment to the policy unit Tim helped to develop the Confederation into one of the most influential bodies in UK healthcare.

Tim also writes and speaks on primary care and commissioning and was on the platform at the 2006 National Primary Care Conference and the British Pharmacy Conference in 2006 and 2007. He is a member of the editorial board for the recently launched Journal of Management and Marketing in Healthcare.

Stephen Gillam, MD, FRCP, FFPH, MRCGP

Stephen Gillam is a GP in a deprived area of Luton and Director for Public Health Teaching at the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge. Formerly he was Director of Primary Care at the King’s Fund, a national policy institute. He has been heavily involved in charting the impact of primary care policy under new Labour including the development of Primary Care Trusts.

He began his career in general practice before moving into public health medicine following a period overseas with the Save The Children Fund. He worked previously as a consultant in public health medicine/medical adviser for Bedfordshire Health Authority. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire and an honorary consultant in public health at the Cambridgeshire Primary Care Trust.

Dr. Rebecca Rosen

Dr. Rosen has worked for Humana as their Medical Director in charge of developing Humana's clinical strategy to integrate commissioning health services with initiatives to promote wellness and support patient involvement in decisions about health and healthcare. Prior to joining Humana, Dr. Rosen was Senior Fellow in Health Policy at the King's Fund where she worked on long-term conditions policy, primary care and patient choice. Her work on long-term conditions spans national policy analysis and the local organisation of services in primary care.

In the past she has worked in NHS public health departments and at the Health Services Research Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her MD thesis was on the introduction and diffusion of new medical technologies. Dr. Rosen remains a Senior Associate of the King's Fund, she is a trustee of Asthma UK and Chair of a small charity promoting closer relationships between scientists and artists.