Richard Ashcroft
Richard works on the role of human rights theory, law and practice in bioethics policy, and on ethical challenges in public health. He was Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health, funded by the Wellcome Trust, with partners at Kings College London and the London School of Economics. He has a longstanding interest in biomedical research ethics, and is ethics lead on two projects led by Dr Anna David at UCL on treatments and diagnostics in complex pregnancies. He is a Principal Investigator on the MRC-funded UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies. Richard is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, Bristol University and a fellow of the ETHOX Centre, Oxford University. He was Deputy Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, and still serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. He was a member of the Ethics and Policy Advisory Committee of the Medical Research Council, Director of the Appointing Authority for Phase I Ethics Committees and is currently a member of the Royal College of Physicians working party on tobacco.
Hazel Biggs
Hazel is Head of the Law School and Professor of Healthcare Law and Bioethics and co-director of HEAL (the Centre for Health Ethics and Law) at the University of Southampton. She received her first degree from the University of Kent after working for several years as a radiographer and ultrasonographer in the National Health Service. She was previously Professor of Medical Law at Lancaster University.
Hazel’s research focuses on Healthcare Law and Bioethics generally, with particular emphasis on death and dying and end of life decision-making, human reproduction and the beginning of life, and the ethics and law of clinical research. She has published widely on the legal and ethical aspects of each of these areas.
Hazel was a member of the GMC working group which formulated the guidance Treatment and Care Towards the End of Life: good practice in decision-making in 2010. She is currently Editor in Chief of Medical Law Review, a member of the editorial board of Research Ethics Review, ethics advisor to the Wales Cancer Bank and a Senior Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine.
David Drew
My dismissal after 37 years as a competent and dutiful children’s doctor has forced me to rethink life. From 2010 to the present I have campaigned for the protection of NHS whistle-blowers and supported numerous individual whistle-blowers and patients/relatives trying to negotiate the currently unfit for purpose NHS complaints system. I have been instrumental in the commissioning of Sir Robert Francis’s whistleblower review which is about to report. Last year I published my personal account of my experiences as a whistle-blower, Little Stories of Life and Death.
@NHSWhistleblowr (Troubador).
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