Patrons
Kelvin Peter Hopkins MP
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Kelvin Peter Hopkins is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Luton North since 1997. Kelvin Hopkins was born in Leicester, the son of renowned physicist Harold Hopkins FRS. He was educated at the Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, North London and the University of Nottingham where he was awarded a BA degree in Politics, Economics and Mathematics with Statistics. With the exception of two years as a lecturer at the St Albans FE College (now called Oaklands College) from 1971 he has worked entirely within the trade union movement. He joined the Trades Union Congress as an economist in 1969, and rejoined the TUC following his stint in education in 1973. He was appointed as a policy and research officer with NALGO in 1977, leaving its successor UNISON in 1994.
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Lord Bernard Ribeiro CBE DSc MB FRCS
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Bernard Francisco Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro, Kt, CBE is a British surgeon who served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2005 to 2008. He was created a life peer in 2010 and sits in the House of Lords on the Conservative benches
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Committee
Mr Derek Fawcett MB., FRCS[Eng], FEBUrol
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Secondary Care Consultant, Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Groups, Consultant Urological Surgeon. Derek trained in Urology and Transplantation at the Charing Cross and Royal Marsden Hospitals and was appointed a Consultant Urological Surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 1983. He has had a special interest in the surgery of bladder and kidney cancer and retired in September 2012. A previous President of the British Association of Urological surgeons, he was a member of the NHS Future Forum set up to review the Health and Social Care Bill in 2011 |
Dr James Le Fanu BA, MB B chir, MRCP
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James Le Fanu is a British physician, medical journalist and author of several books. He is best known for his weekly columns in the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph.He graduated from Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital in 1974, and then worked in the Renal Transplant Unit and Cardiology Departments of the Royal Free Hospital and St Mary's Hospital in London. For the last 20 years, he has been a doctor in general practice. Le Fanu is also a medical journalist and has written articles and reviews both for medical journals such as the British Medical Journal and for magazines, and weekly columns in the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, for which he is best known.
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Mr Thomas Dehn MS FRCS
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Tom Dehn is a consultant UGI surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He introduced laparoscopic abdominal surgery to the RBH in 1991 and has been in the forefront of laparoscopic surgery since then. He was on the teaching faculty of the MATTU at Guildford and Hambourg, was Chairman of the Oesophageal Section of the British Society of Gastroenterology, a council member of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons and was elected a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for work on laparoscopic antireflux surgery. He has been a Britsih Journal Surgery Lecturer for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. His professional life has been spent using the inventions of Professor Harold Hopkins whom he met on a number of occasions.
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