Professional Activities
Membership of National Strategic Groups
Member of Drink Aware Medical Advisory Panel
• Chair of Department of Health (DH) National Liver Disease Strategy Cross Cutting Group
• Member of Liver Disease Strategy Specialist Nurse Reference Group
• Independent Consultant to DH National Support Team (NST) Supporting chief executives of local authorities and health services to meet NHS targets for admission reductions
• RCN representative on DH National Steering Group for Payment by Results (PBR) Developing methodology for the introduction of tariff payments for specialist treatment
• Member of Payment by Results (PBR) Clinical Expert Group
• Member of European Regions Alcohol Related Harm Working Group (EUREGHA)
• Programme Board member DH National Alcohol Interventions Improvement Programme.
• Member of National Alcohol Interventions Improvement Clinical Expert Group
• Clinical expert on Expert Reference Group - Dynamic Whole Systems Modelling for Alcohol Harm-Reduction
• Member of DH Local Alcohol Interventions Improvement Programme Group
• Clinical representative on DH Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (SIPS) Independent Trial Investigators Group.
• Member of DH Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Research Project Research Project (SIPS) Steering Group.
• Clinical expert to National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Alcohol-use disorders: physical complications guideline development group (CG100)
• Clinical expert to National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Alcohol-use disorders - preventing harmful drinking (PH24)
Professional Body Memberships
- British Society of Gastroenterology (Associate Member, 2011 - 2012)
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) (Committee Member, 2010 - 2011)
- Medical Council on Alcohol (Memeber, 2000 - 2012)
- Royal College of Nursing (Memeber, 1982 - 2012)