Chairman of the Board

Tom Sackville

Chief Executive,
International Federation of Health Plans

Tom began his working life in financial services in
New York, specialising in European and Latin American debt. In 1983 he was elected Member of Parliament for the Lancashire constituency of Bolton West. He founded the All Party Committee on Drug Misuse and later served as a government whip, and from 1992 to 1995 as a minister in the Department of Health. He subsequently occupied a similar role in the Home Office, with special responsibility for drug abuse and organised crime. Since 1998 he has been Chief Executive of the International Federation of Health Plans, a global network of leading health insurers with members in over 30 countries. He is an advisor to various healthcare enterprises, including a hospital IT service provider.

He is Chairman of Renal Services plc, the leading independent provider of kidney dialysis in the UK and Italy, and The Family Survival Trust, a charitable foundation supporting families affected by cult membership

Board Members

Dr Paul Charlson

GP and Director SkinQure, UK

Paul is a GP in East Yorkshire. He is also a GP Trainer and has special interests in dermatology, occupational medicine, acupuncture, GP education and health policy.

Paul is medical director of SkinQure Clinic providing cosmetic dermatology treatment and advice.
He has been involved in PCG and PCTs since their inception and was a Professional Executive Committee member of East Yorkshire PCT. He was also a Course Organiser on the Hull and East Yorkshire GP training scheme.

Consultant Spinal Orthopaedic Surgeon, Exec
Chairman RealHealth Institute UK and Director AO, Switzerland

John trained as a spinal surgeon and was responsible for creating and leading the spinal surgical service at Guys and St Thomas’s Hospitals in London. A recognised opinion leader, John was founding member and worldwide Director of Education at AOSpine, the largest educational organisation in this field. He also has extensive experience in early stage business development, and was Non Executive Chairman of PHF Ltd and was a founder of Outcome Technologies a healthcare sector information technology business, successfully sold to BUPA in 2005. He ran the British Spinal Registry and was Secretary of the Society for Back Pain Research. He has a passionate interest in developing new ways of delivering high quality care for NHS patients.

Prof Nigel Cameron

Professor of Bioethics, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, USA

Nigel M. de S. Cameron is President of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies (c-pet.org) in Washington, DC, and a Research Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology - where he was formerly founding director of the Center on Nanotechnology and Society, and an Associate Dean at Chicago-Kent College of Law. His books include Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century (ed. with M. Ellen Mitchell, John Wiley 2007). He has been a visiting scholar at UBS Wolfsberg in Switzerland, a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, and a participant in the US/European Commission dialogue on Perspectives on the Future of Science and Technology. He has also represented the United States as bioethics advisor on US delegations to the United Nations, and is a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO. A native of the United Kingdom, he has studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh universities and the Edinburgh Business School.

National Council for Palliative Care

Simon Chapman works in the voluntary sector as a consultant specialising in development, public affairs & fund-raising. His current portfolio includes the National Council for Palliative Care, which he advises on development, public affairs and ethics. He spent 12 years in private practice as a barrister before changing career to work full time in the charity sector.

Andrew Burns [Treasurer]