Clinical Governance Committee

Membership

• Malika Mohabeer Hart - Chair
• Vacant - Cheshire & Merseyside Branch Chair
• Claudia Krause - East Anglia Branch Chair
• Matt Phillips - Northern Branch Chair, co-opted
• John White - Northern Ireland Branch Chair
• John Sweeney - North West Branch Chair, co-opted
• Hilly Williams - Oxford Branch Chair, co-opted
• Graham Leslie - Scotland Branch Chair, co-opted
• Fiona Fargie - South West Branch Chair, co-opted
• Rita Browne - Thames North East Branch Chair
• Dawn Friday - Thames North West Branch Chair
• Julia Bilinska - Thames South East Branch Chair, co-opted
• Torshie Annan - Thames South West Branch Chair, co-opted
• Hayley Wood - Trent Branch Chair
• Darren Cousins - Wales Branch Chair
• Sara Scofield - Wessex Branch Chair
• Lisa Goodall - West Midlands Branch Chair
• Emma Street - Yorkshire Branch Chair
• David Brown - DiT Representative
• Alan Haskell - Nurse Representative
• Vacant - Health Adviser Representative
• Fahad Naser - SAS Representative
• Stephanie Katiyar - Pharmacist Representative

Ex-officio members

• Cara Saxon - President
• Chris Ward - Vice President
• Anne Oliver - Treasurer
• Clare Wood - General Secretary
• Rona MacDonald - Assistant General Secretary
• Nathan Burley - Conferences and Communications Chair
• Matthew Grundy Bowers - Education Committee Chair
• Margaret Kingston - Clinical Effectiveness Group Chair
• Natasha Astill - National Audit Group Chair
• Dawn Wilkinson - Clinical Standards Unit Chair

Objectives

This committee consists of regional representatives from all of the branches in England, and a representative from the UK devolved nations: Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. In addition, there are professional group representatives from Nurses, Health Advisers, Pharmacists, Staff & Associate Specialists, and Doctors in Training. Other Groups within BASHH feed into this committee: The Clinical Effectiveness Group, the Clinical Standards Unit (CSU), the National Audit Group (NAG), and the BASHH/FSRH Integrated Information Group.

• To implement strategies and policies of BASHH as approved by the Governing Board
• To oversee, set and monitor standards and specifications relating to BASHH
• To identify areas of best clinical practice and promote their adoption whilst recognising local variation in capacity, infrastructure and policy
• To identify regional and individual clinic difficulties and support such services to explore solutions to issues, mobilise support and suggest action plans.

Significant activities / Outputs 2022-2023

• 3 virtual meetings and 1 face to face meeting during Spring Conference
• Supported BASHH Mpox response
• Ongoing input to National PGD
• Formalised roles and responsibilities for representatives

Future plans

• Develop new BASHH website to better support regional and national sharing of information.
• To support BASHH in assessing workforce numbers
• Support BASHH with promoting GU training and recruitment
• To support BASHH to lead on the development of coherent holistic sexual health strategies for all four nations in the UK

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