Signatures: An Open Letter to the Secretary of State for Health
Julian Abel
Director, Compassionate Communities UK; retired consultant in palliative care; Visting Professor, Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University Newcastle, author of The Compassion Project–The Town That Cured Loneliness
Fraser Birrell
Editor-in-Chief, Lifestyle Medicine; Principal Fellow, Higher Education Academy; Engagement Lead, MRC-Versus Arthritis Centre for Integrated Research into Musculoskeletal Ageing (CIMA)
Director of Science & Research, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine; Academic Lead, Shared Medical Appointments UK; Visiting Professor, Northumbria University
Adjunct (Honorary) Professor, Southern Cross University; Honorary Professor of Lifestyle Medicine & Innovation, Population & Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University; Consultant Rheumatologist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Frances da Cunha
Retired GP and lead for implementation of the Frome Model in the West Mendip area of Somerset
Austen El-Osta
Director, Self-Care Academic Research Unit (SCARU); Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London
Primary Care Research Manager, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
General Manager, Directorate of Public Health & Primary Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Nina Goldman
Honorary Research Fellow, Manchester Institute for Education, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester
Honorary Lecturer, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. Early Career Editorial Board of the journal Health & Place
Chris Ham
Co-Chair of the NHS Assembly; Emeritus Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Birmingham; and Senior Visiting Fellow at The King's Fund. CEO of the King's Fund 2010–2018
Allan Kellehear
Professor, Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Founder of public health palliative care, compassionate cities and compassionate communities
Helen Kingston
Lead GP Frome Medical Practice and founder of the Frome Model
Ed Straw
Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University's Applied Systems Thinking in Practice unit, previous partner and management consultant with PriceWaterhouse, Coopers
Thomas Wood
Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Neuroscience, University of Washington
Trustee and Treasurer, British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
Deputy Editor, Lifestyle Medicine